Ep. 316 - FFS (Forward Facing Sonar) Catch Rate Study w/ Researcher Ryan Henry
Tackle Talk - Bass Fishing Podcast
Andrew Hayes
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, we welcome on Research Scientist Ryan Henry. We get to sit down with Ryan and chat about some of his recent research projects, including the impacts on new technology on our fisheries, preserving potential record breaking fish the RIGHT WAY, protecting bass populations from natural disasters, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | On today's episode, we welcome on Fisheries Research Scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife |
| 0:05.4 | Conservation Commission, Ryan Henry. So we sit down with Ryan and chat about some of his recent |
| 0:11.0 | research projects, including the impacts of new technology on our fisheries, preserving potential |
| 0:17.5 | record-breaking fish the right way, and more on today's episode of Tackle Talk. |
| 0:22.7 | Hello everybody. I'm Bill Dance, and you're listening to Tackle Talk. |
| 0:27.7 | This is the Tackle Talk podcast. Brought to you by American Legacy Fishing and Outdoors, |
| 0:35.5 | world-class fishing gear. |
| 0:39.3 | Unmatched personal service. |
| 0:43.5 | Now, here's your host, Andrew Hayes. |
| 0:45.3 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:47.6 | Welcome back to another episode of the Tackle Talk podcast. |
| 0:52.2 | We have a great show for you today with Ryan, a really cool conversation that I think you guys will enjoy. |
| 0:58.5 | But first, we have to give a big thank you to American Legacy Fishing. There are the folks that make this entire episode, this entire podcast possible they have for years. We can't thank them enough for their support of Tackle |
| 1:03.3 | Talk. Brian and Gang over there are first class all the way, a family-owned business. Great |
| 1:08.9 | folks over to American Legacy Fishing. Go check them out over at |
| 1:11.6 | www.w.w.com. And as always, your discount code is Tackle Talk 5. All right, folks, on today's show, |
| 1:20.8 | we get to step away from the gear side of things for a bit. We step away from the fishing industry |
| 1:26.4 | and the fishing news side of things, |
| 1:28.6 | and we get to take a look at some interesting research that's been done down in Florida as we |
| 1:33.4 | sit down with fisheries research scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, |
| 1:39.1 | Ryan Henry. Now, we're going to talk about a couple things here today with Ryan. First, |
| 1:43.4 | we start off with a recent study that Ryan conducted down in Florida, which was the study that originally caught my eye and led me to reach out to Ryan. And that study takes a look at a topic and a piece of equipment that has a tendency to be pretty controversial in the fishing world today, and that is obviously Ford-facing |
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