Recent content by bAcKpAiN

I understand what you are saying but aren't the speed control switches wired into a foot pedal where that kind of juice isn't flowing? I know my battery life varies greatly depending on my speed settings. Don't all trolling motors already have some sort of variability built into them? If you...

You will be fine with your 12V stuff as long as you have them hooked up the the + and - of the SAME battery. I have a 36V system and have the motor starter attached to one of those batteries drawing just its 12v. I have my pumps and lights on a second battery drawing 12v and the fish finder is...

I may be over simplifying it but couldn't you just put in a variable ohm resistor in the circuit where the current speed setting switch is so you can change the resistance there in a linear way rather than the speed settings? I did something similar when the speed setting switch broke on my old...

You should be okay with the "nutcert" if you are only going to use a seat with a base because you are pretty much dealing with downward force. If you ever plan on putting even a small pedestal in there in the future I would go for something more sturdy. I would cut an opening in the base of the...

I have an early 80s 16' fisher mod V (Think old tracker) with a 101lb older Minn Kota. I get about 4.5 mph out of it on the GPS and the juice lasts forever. One marathon day me and two other guys fished for 15 hours and still had plenty of juice to get back home. It was a HP restricted lake so...

I took the afternoon and fiddled around with it with my 9 year old son's help. I figured even if we didn't get it going the father-son time would be well spent. I watched intently while he was shifting the motor from forward to neutral before the throttle engaged. and then slowly adjusted the...

I bought new teleflex cables off of eBay. I don't have a manual so I am going to have to "wing" it as it were. I haven't been able to find a manual and no shop will even look at it because of its age. If I get an opportunity after work today I will try and get it rolling, will let you know how...

If it pulls straight and doesn't bring the motor close to the ground I wouldn't worry about it. To me it would be counterproductive to add weight and weak points with all kinds of adapters and such just to get it level. As long as it is secured to the trailer it isn't going anywhere. I would use...

Need to send some of that open water across the big D!!

I don't know of any lakes south of Philly that don't require an out of state license lol :(

Yeah man I was watching it come back across the ice just hoping for a blow up through the ice to grab it, but alas it never happened. Hoping the warm few days helped clear some ice, I am getting antsy!!

On my first boat I was in the same situation. I turned the head/handle assembly around and mounted to the bow gunwale similar in placement to the one pictured. I put a 10" or so section of scrap furring strip on both the inside and outside of the boat to give the clamps some meat to tighten to...

I have done it as well, you can also turn the head around to better steer from behind the motor. Like Jethro mentioned it is less than ideal and you will probably want to do something different in the future. I did see a guy at a local lake that turned the head on his transom motor around and...

I decided to try to see what was going on at Nockamixon and Towhee in early spring. Didn't go as planned.... But I had to take a cast anyway!!

+1 For the Seaguar. I use the red label stuff from walley world for leaders. I use the Alberto special knot to tie to braid and a San Diego jam knot on the business end. A spool for 12$ has lasted me three plus years.