 What's up guys, Joe Holland here. Just shot a video a little while back trolling for brown trout. CJ and I utilized Garmin's forward-facing sonar to actually look behind us. And I got a ton of questions on using the forward-facing sonar to look backwards while you're trolling. Basically how to use it, how to read it, the advantages of it. So I wanted to bring this to you on this video. Here are some of the clips that I got from that. Just pointed a GoPro at the at the Garmin. So some of the footage isn't great, but you'll be able to see it. So I threw, we were trolling with four rods. We had one with a spinner on and a shinier behind it. One with a dodger on and a shinier behind it. And then two on the side with lead cores. One I think had a dodger and the other had spinners. So you're going to see those over the course of the video. I will put the hardware over the picture on the Garmin so you can see exactly where our bait is, how it's working and where the shinier is and also where the downrigger balls are. Keep in mind that the boat is always moving forwards. We're always looking backwards. So when you see something that is stationary, it's going to be moving away from you in the video. So like when a fish comes in and is going away from you, he might actually just be sitting still and coming off off the bottom. And then when he follows, then he's actually following behind you. A couple real advantages I've seen to it just from the first time out is even when you're looking behind you, you can still look 40, 50 feet in front of the boat. So you can see when a hump's coming up. So you can adjust your bait, your line, so you're not getting hung up on bottom and you're fishing in the sweet spot. Other things are to see how the fish are reacting when you have a fish on your zone. So you could know when you're going to get a bite, set the hook, and you might even be able to do some stuff with the rod, you know, as far as moving the tap or reeling it in or going a little bit faster with the boat or slower with the boat, depending on how to get those strikes. So you could actually do more fishing with it once you figure out how to use it. So here's the footage from the other day. It's really cool to watch how these fish react. It kind of solidified one of the ideas we had always had over fish that are trolling, especially fish like brown trout, where they might look at your bait or sniff your bait or swipe at your bait for several, several hundred yards, if not even a mile on some of these. But I think it's pretty cool footage. Check it out. Tell me what you think. Yeah, that looks like a big one, didn't it? Oh, oh, big one shooting up. See him? He's gone. Why are they shooting up off the bottom? Oh, oh, big one's coming up. Keep coming. He's turning. He's following us. They're pretty close together, but he's on the dodger right now. Yeah, he's really looking on. Is he on the spinner? That's a decent size fish. Come on in. He's getting closer. See him coming in? Which one's he on? Dodger? He's within three foot. That's a decent fish. Should we do anything or just let him look at him right on it? He's a foot away from him. Six inches away from him. Oh, he's a foot away from him. See him? That's a nice fish. Now in the spinner, you still see him. Did you slow her back down? He's been with us over a hundred yards. Now he's coming to the spinner. He's coming in pretty hot. All right, who's watching that spinner? Eden. Oh, he's all over it. Spinner. He's on something. He touched it? This is so cool. What is he doing? He's like on top of one of them, so he ready. He like touched it. He's coming back. That's a decent fish, isn't it? Oh, yes. You can see the eyes here. That's on the lead core. He's all over it. He likes grass. Is he following the one toward that? No, no, it's cool. We shouldn't be here. No, because that was following us. Right? He's still there, see? Did you just turn? Maybe it was big. Now I'll see him. Is that 70? He's in it? He was on us for over a hundred yards. That's a big fish. You just didn't like the bait for some reason. Oh, he's still on it. He's on the spinners. Look. See him? It's way bigger than a reel. He had to do something, pull it or a little pull. See if he can get him to bite. Yeah, he's still following. He's still following. Oh, he's really following. He's still, he's under it. See him? He's going to the other one now. He's coming back. Oh, look at him shoot up. Oh, he just shot up at it. He's on the one he just had in hand. He's like touching it. Keep an eye on that tip. Nice fish. I'd like to see how big he is. Oh, over that fish. I suppose we ought to throw a smelt on here? Everybody says they don't like the nuffin. Apparently they don't like shiners. He's still on it. He's on the dodging now. He's taking swipes out of it. He's not touching it. Game it again. It's almost like it's that big house. He's still on it. Coming in hot right now. All right, he's coming back in. Painful to watch. He's fricking over that thing. He must be sniffing easily. I mean, we almost picked him up in that big house. Oh, big one. Big one coming in hot. That's a nice one. Come back and eat. You can see a tail. Those are five foot blocks. So if he feels half hanging back, he came in so hot. I thought he was going to bite. Come out of nowhere. He's pretty decent anyway. Yeah, he's good. Oh, look at him coming in hot. Come on. He's on the spinners. Which one's the spinners? Eda. I said Eda. Oh my God, he's all over it. Eda. Eda. Looks decent, doesn't he? Yeah, he is. What is that, a tree? Going to the spinners? It's like a tree on the bottom or just fishing line. Like he's inside the spinners. He's in the spinners now. Oh my God, look at him. And he's inside the spinners. That big red blob is him. All right. Oh, geez, you see that move? Oh, what? Oh, geez, that's got to be a rock on Bob. Or submarine. The boat. Oh, he just came in hot. Oh, he keeps going past the bait into the spinners. Eda. That's a big fish on the bottom. I think it's a rock. Yeah, man, he's all over it. Eda. Is he in front of the bait? Yeah, he keeps going around it. Oh, he's at the dodger? He's looking at the dodger hard. I know, he's hanging back now. Spinners are up there. Oh, is he coming to the spinners? Yeah, he's coming to the spinners. Oh, come on. Eda. Eda. Eda. He's on it. Oh, he's all over the bait. No, he went past the bait. He's in the spinners. He did something funny. Oh, he went to the bottom. I think the bait's hit the bottom. Yeah, the spinner's hit the bottom. I can't tell where he is now. You've got to go off with the spinner still. There you go. Now you're clear about him I think he just went away. What did we do? Turn? No, there he is still. He's coming up to your spinner. To yours, CJ. Yeah, I think there are the same thing out that we did yesterday, that one orange. We do have that out. That was the thing we were eating yesterday. What is that one? Oh, I thought it was just there. There he is. All right. Is that a good thing? All right. He's decent. I got you. He's a big one. Oh, it's a good one. Let me know what I can do to help. Do I stab at him or get under him? Huh? All right. So which line did we catch the fly line? We could probably fix that real quick right there if you want. Really? You could just lift the fish up through it. There you go. Now go over, Joe. Cool about it there. Yeah, let's get it back. The only big second. That was awesome. Yeah, nice, bro. I'm going to stay at it. Cool. All three pounds. Yeah. Yeah, I would say. I think it's 20 inches.