Trolling

Did Minn Kota do something new again??? Yes, the new Fortrex series trolling motors are here!!The Only Motor We've ever kept in solitary confinementThe Mono-Arm: Your New Secret WeaponSometimes, the simplest solution is best. In this case, it's a revolution. Fortrex's innovative Mono-Arm Design features an extruded, anodized aluminum, structural beam that operates with no metal-to-metal contact an

TIPS AND TACTICS FOR RAISING AND CATCHING BLACK MARLIN IN CABO By Richard Chudy Unlike other marlin, blacks live only in the Pacific. They are considered by most marine biologists to be a continental shelf species – meaning that they tend to remain near landmasses and are unlikely to be found in open waters.Perhaps that characteristic c

This trolling motor worked very nice on its first outing. Was used on a pelican 1200. It was used on a two day float trip down the river. We fished all day using the motor on and off. The boat was loaded with one person, loaded cooler, fishing supplies, tent, and camping gear. Also was towing a duck decoy container with more supplies. This thing will get a lot of use this duck hunting season. It a

ENDURA TRANSOM MOUNTCool, quiet power. 6" telescoping ergonomic designed handle. Composite shaft will not kink, break, rust or corrode. Weedless Wedge 2 prop. Two year warrantyView product details at Amazon

Male plug connects to trolling motor. Jumpered internally to supply 12V & 24V power to the trolling motor when plugged into the receptacle. Black. REF-ID: EB01-6001817View product details at Amazon

Riptideandreg; Pro Saltwater Bow-Mount Trolling Motor Riptide Pro Why give 100% when you can get by with 50%? Our exclusive Lift-Assist cuts the heavy lifting in half. Motor Highlights Lift-Assist - Exclusive, patented design features a heavy-duty, gas-charged spring that cuts the weight of lifting your motor by 50%. Makes stowing and deploying as easy as lifting your SUV tailgate. Saves energy an

PowerDriveand#153; V2 FreshWater Bow-Mount Trolling Motor A redesigned foot pedal, new deploy-assist lever and digital electronics enhance one of the most trusted motors in the industry. Discover the next generation of performance. MOTOR HIGHLIGHTS DEPLOY ASSIST LEVER Features a new deploy-assist lever that puts you in motion and in pursuit of fish quickly and easily. Simply depress the lever to d

The Endura is the workhorse that no angler can do without-and now we've backed it with a three-year warranty to make it the most dependable motor out there! The lever lock bracket delivers a rock solid mount that is stronger than conventional brackets. Special composite materials resist flexing, warping and UV damage. Our composite shaft will not break, kink or corrode. We are the only ones who tr

MAXXUM BOW MOUNTLighted, easy to see directional indicator located on top of motor head. Composite shaft will not kink, break, rust or corrode. Maximizer controls draw of power at infinitely variable speeds, eliminating wasted energy, conserves battery power. Weedless Wedge 2w prop. Cool, quiet power. 3 year warranty. Bowguard 360 degrees.NOTE: Sonar Models incorporate an integrated and protected

A redesigned foot pedal, new deploy-assist lever and digital electronics enhance one of the most trusted motors in the industry. This motor features 70lbs of thrust and a 60" shaft. It also comes with the new Universal Sonar 2.View product details at Amazon

After mounting this unit on our 21 foot Fisher pontoon boat and heading to the lake with 20 mph winds, I was pleasantly surprised with the results. Although not meant to head into a Blue Norther in Oklahoma, this unit does an all around respectable job in a variety of situations. I have had several bass boats with good trolling motors and this one falls into that category. Nice installation hardwa

Sevylor 12V / 30 lb. Thrust Trolling Motor and 12V Battery with 110V Charger. Ideal for larger boats! 150% more power than Sevylor's 12-lb.Thrust Trolling Motor. Capable of working from a stronger battery. Has 5 forward speeds and 2 reverse speeds. Comes with conventional transom C-clamp and can be used on fiberglass, wood and aluminum boats. Also included is a 2-blade weed-free prop made of stron

A redesigned foot pedal, new deploy-assist lever and digital electronics enhance one of the most trusted motors in the industry. This motor features 65lbs of thrust and a 60" shaft.View product details at Amazon

Female corrosion resistant receptacle made of glass reinforced nylon. Black. Will accept stranded wire of up to 6 ga. ring terminals. REF-ID: EB01-6001818View product details at Amazon

VECTOR TRANSOM Mount FEATURES: 3X Steering - Move the tiller just 60 degrees to move the lower unit a full 180. Slight handle adjustments give you ultra-responsive boat control, maximizing bait presentation. Eliminates tiller interference with your outboard.Tilt Steering Control - Handle extends to 21" with 5 detent settings for maximum control and comfort. Tiller tilts 20 degrees to allow you to

A redesigned foot pedal, new deploy-assist lever and digital electronics enhance one of the most trusted motors in the industry. This motor features 70lbs of thrust and a 60" shaft. It also comes with Autopilot.View product details at Amazon

The Endura is the workhorse that no angler can do without-and now we've backed it with a three-year warranty to make it the most dependable motor out there! The lever lock bracket delivers a rock solid mount that is stronger than conventional brackets. Special composite materials resist flexing, warping and UV damage. Our composite shaft will not break, kink or corrode. We are the only ones who tr

This Motor is good! However... If you buy an inflatable Sevylor boat (Which work great) and plan to use this motor for cruising around, you will be disappointed. On "fast" speed, the motor travels at about the pace of a slow average walk. If you are out using this motor for fishing, this is however about the right pace. One advantage of this motor is it only draws a maximum of 12 amps at the faste

I did a lot of research before I bought this trolling motor. I saved $80.00 on shipping and tax by getting it here on Amazon.Took it out to the lake last weekend for first time since buying it and installing it 2 months ago. I put it on a 17' crestliner "fish n ski" deep v that weighs 2050 lbs. withought gas. I was told by a lot of people to get the 54", but i resisted and did the math and got the

I have a 16' Hewes Bayfisher and I upgraded from the Riptide 55 lb. thrust to the 70 lb. thrust. I was slightly concerned about the 52" shaft. However, I've found that the shaft fits comfortably on the bow and it is easily adjustable to accomodate depth. I'm very impressed with the difference in the amount of thrust in this model as opposed to the 55 lb. model. If you need more motor and you have

I am using this motor on the bow of a 15 foot aluminum boat in Lake Erie. It works perfectly. The foot pedal is easy to operate...although the steering is pretty sensitive and you can easily over control it. The foot controlled speed is very easy to use and set. Having a battery charge level tester on the unit is also handy. This motor has plenty of power for my boat, even in windy conditions. I a

For more boat control and fishing versatility, Vector with 3X steering offers backtrolling in an instant. Pull the spring-loaded pin, rotate the tiller to the backtrolling position and you're on your way. Features our Super Duty bracket for a rock-solid mount. This motor comes with 55lbs of thrust and a 42" shaftView product details at Amazon

MAXXUM TRANSOM Mount Features: Maximizer-Controls draw of power at infinitely variable speeds to conserve battery and extend run time up to 5 times.Indestructible Composite Shaft -Pound for pound, stronger than steel. Flexes on impact. Will not break, kink or corrode. Guaranteed for life.Tilt Twist Tiller -Puts natural outboard convenience in the palm of your hand. Quick access. Multi-position han

The MotorGuide FW54HT puts the controls where you need them right at your fingertips with a telescopic, twist tiller control. Fifty four pounds of sustained thrust gives you unparalleled power no matter the boat. Coupled with the Machette III prop you can go more shallow, faster, or quieter than any other motor.View product details at Amazon

A redesigned foot pedal, new deploy-assist lever and digital electronics enhance one of the most trusted motors in the industry. This motor features 55lbs of thrust and a 54" shaft.View product details at Amazon

The Endura series trolling motors are the most cost-effective motors out there. Ranging in thrust levels from 30 lbs. of thrust up to 55lbs there is an Endura motor for most anglers. All Endura motors come with Minn Kota transom mounts which are twice as strong as traditional transom mounts. A quick release lever lock allows the convenience of being able to stow the motor with one hand. The twist

This series of motors will enable you to push your fishing experience to the max! The transom mount motors offers many of the same great features as the bow mount motors do in a transom mount style. These motors are specially designed to run cool. This means that you get more sustained power and longer life from your battery. This series also offers the Maximizer. By using advanced solid state cir

Used it on a 14 foot porta-bote with me and 3 kids (8, 13, 17). Motored for over an hour on the first run (at pretty much full throttle), pushing the 4 of us around the lake. Beats the heck out of rowing. My battery is about a year and a half old and hasn't been maintained that well (just disconnected from my travel trailer until next use). Bought a minn kota battery charger to maintain the batter

I wanted to the ability to bass fish off my boat, so I purchased this motor a week ago along with a Seasense 4-Way Adjustable Trolling Motor Bracket and mounted both the back of my 15' Seadoo Sportster (Jet Boat). I have been fishing twice already, and love this motor. I am typically using the lowest speed and it pushes and pulls my 1,600 LB+ boat around the lake with no issue. The motor looks gre

Choosing the right Trolling Motor for your Bass BoatBy: Peter SagartzWith the way boating accesories are now adays you could spend days going through the options for a trolling motor for your boat. I am going to try to help you narrow down your choices. You have to choose a 12v, 24v, or 36v system for the trolling motor. For those of you that know as much about electricity as I do 12v is one batte

Trolling for kingfish? Sure! Trolling for grouper? Why not. But… trolling for snook? This was a new experience for me. On Saturday, I met my friend David and we headed down to Bellaire Beach for a little surf fishing. It was a beautiful day, but the fish weren’t cooperating.                 Later that afternoon, we headed to the [...]

Do you want to convert your Terrova Trolling Motor to be AutoPilot Capable?Introducing the Autopilot Accessory for Minn Kota Terrova Trolling Motors.Install an AutoPilot into your Terrova Motor!!!Stay the Course. Upgrade your Terrova™ or Riptide® ST with the AutoPilot™ plug-in module. This patented navigation system keeps you headed in the right direction by intelligently and automatically steering your boat. The compass locks onto a heading to keep you on track – even through wind, waves and current – so you can concentrate on catching fish. AutoPilot lets you troll along a current line or over a shelf or ledge, hover in place over schooling fish. troll parallel to the shoreline, and repeat a productive troll. Installation is as easy as plugging the compass board into the contro

Minn Kota Trolling Motors are simply have the best quality and reliability you can find in a trolling motor. With a huge variety of options to best suit your needs, you are sure to find the right motor. Maxxum Bow and Transom Mount Trolling Motors Maxxum Pro with exclusive Lift-Assist cuts the weight of lifting your trolling motor in half. Save your strength for what really counts – putting more weight in the livewell. Maxxum is unmistakably the most powerful feature-packed trolling motor you can put on the bow of your boat.Edge Bow Mount Trolling Motors The Edge from Minn Kota. No-nonsense performance that gives you the edge, day after day, year after year. Take it to the limit. Treacherous stump fields. Tangled weedbeds. Punishing wind and waves. Big fish pose big challenges. Our ne

The Wall Street Journal looks at people who troll political sites, but surprisingly leaves out a major source of trolls this year–supporters of Ron Paul. While typically problems with trolls from most sources are limited to people working alone or sometimes with one partner, many Paul supporters use trolling other sites as a planned tactic, failing to understand that this only results in creating antagonism and harming as opposed to helping their candidate. The nearest we saw to this phenomenon in the past was when some supporters of Howard Dean behaved this way in 2003-4. At least that year many more responsible Dean supporters, as well as the Joe Trippi, made statements regarding how counterproductive this was and urged them to cease. There are some common traits of trolls. One is that many simply want attention, and unfortunately articles like this will only encourage them. Another is that they have little understanding of “netiquette.” A troll featured in the arti

"Fucked Company is a website created by Philip J. Kaplan as a "dot-com dead pool" which reports dot-com or technological companies having serious or embarrassing problems. The web site also sells rumor listings to subscribers. The site's name is a parody of Fast Company, a magazine that began covering technology companies during the Internet dot-com...

Principal allegedly loitered in alley for prostitution -in drag - to attract......straight guys?A Bardstown Catholic high school principal was cited for loitering for the purpose of prostitution while he was dressed as a woman. (Criminal citation from The Smoking Gun)Louisville police allegedly spotted Paul A. Schum, 50, of Louisville, in an alley. At 9:20 p.m. Tuesday, officers pulled Schum over in his vehicle at 22nd Street and Plymouth Court after they had watched him hanging out in his car, said Officer Phil Russell, a police spokesman.When asked why he was in the area, Schum gave several reasons, but none seemed legitimate, Russell said, "So [the officers] presumed that the ... reason was for prostitution purposes, Based on his clothing and some other statements he made to them." According to the citation, he was wearing leather, fishnet stockings and fake breasts. Russell said officers routinely patrol the area because a high level of drug trafficking and prostitution is known t

Another well placed article by Adrian this time on the Marlin Expert website...===========================================================Marlin Expert: Fisherman's Resource Information Guide for Marlin, Information about fishing for Marlin - Pacific Blue Marlin trolling luresWhat Went Pear Shaped # 1 - Trolling Lures For Pacific Blue Marlin2.30pm heading away from the Kadavu Seamount 1. Trolling a spread of 4 lures near the Kadavu seamount – A purple Hollowpoint Cabo Killa on the long rigger, and a blue/white/yellow/pink Black Bart Hot Breakfast on the short rigger, both lures with a single 10/0 Stainless steel hook stiff rigged on wire. 19 feet of 400lb wind-on and 9 feet of 300lb Ande leader. Short and long corners were a huge silver / yellow custom MBT Monster and a John Lau Linda, both 12/0 double hook loose shackle rigged at about 45 degrees. (Pakula style)Marlin Expert: Fisherman's Resource Information Guide for Marlin, Information about fishing for Marlin - Pacific Blue Mar

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Amerindian Reservations, July 4, and Today's Issues by ogondai Sun Jul 08, 2007 at 10:41:51 AM PDT "Poverty came with the Reservations. We were forced to live away from our salmon and our other resources. Our poverty is our lack of our Indian resources. These resources are being destroyed... That's what's causing our poverty." Nathan Jim, Sr., Warms Springs Fish Commissioner Though I joined heartily in marking our nation's birth a few days ago, I think part and parcel of the day is keeping in mind whose blood greased our expansion westward. Our country has two original sins -- the suffering of African-Americans as slaves, and the suffering of Native Americans as obstacles to our land usage. We've only truly repented for one of those sins, and don't seem too concerned with the other. Why this is is I also want to examine. Of course, I'm speaking of our own corner of the Third World right here at home -- Amerindian reservations. OK. This is not a nutty opinion and I agree,

Since most people have some combination of mothers, sisters, and wives in their life, I assume people of all political persuasions want an end to breast cancer. Fran Visco is no exception. In fact, she wants an end to breast cancer for Mother's Day. Pick up your phone. Tell your Representative and your Senators and to co-sponsor this legislation. Tell them the 240,000 mothers, daughters, sisters and wives diagnosed with breast cancer each year matter to you. Tell them do to it for your mother, for their mother, for mothers and for all women everywhere. A box of chocolates for Mother's Day is nice. Taking the next step to end breast cancer is better. I don't think I'd want my wife or mother or sister to think about politics on her day. I also don't think it's a good idea to say things like this bill will end breast cancer- it's dishonest. It would promote a study to examine the effects of the environment on breast cancer. Sounds good and it might be; I couldn't find anything

Deckie Joe displays a wahoo’s unusual ability to hinge both its upper and lower jaws For us here on Kadavu Island, May to October is wahoo & sailfish season. Packs of wahoo congregate along the Great Astrolabe Barrier Reef and year round, we find Spanish mackerel. The average size of wahoo here is about 50lbs with a really good fish weighing in at 90 to 100lbs. The mackerel are common to20lbs but can reach 70lbs. The trick here is to first find the wahoo packs by trolling a spread of lures. The wahoo packs are usually on one side of a reef point or the other, depending on the current direction. Normally the up-current side on the drop-off where the depth is about 250ft. Once a pack is found, we then usually switch to 2 outfits on light tackle, rigged with garfish (Ballyhoo). We troll one skip bait and one swimming bait. This prevents the expensive problem of getting mauled by a pack, having 5 rods go off with associated chaos on deck and loosing almost everything you have in the wat

Trolling for Pacific Blue Marlin 12.00 Noon on the Kadavu Seamount Trolling a 7kg Yellowfin tuna skipbait rigged with a 16/0 Duratin Cirle hook. The hook was rigged to sit 4 inches ahead of the tuna’s nose and connected with waxed rigging thread. 9 feet of 400lb Ande leader, 19ft of wind on leader to a Melton bent butt & Penn International 80 STW. A small blue marlin of about 100kg comes up behind the bait and quietly tries to eat it. The angler backs the drag off even more (it was set light already) and allows the bait to drop back controlling the spool with slight drag pressure to avoid over-spooling (bird’s nesting the line). The blue gobbles the bait and turns. Skipper calls for the angler to slowly bring up the drag. Some line pressure then the bait pops back up on the surface. No hook-up. Marlin comes back for attempt # 2. Same procedure but this time we give the marlin a good 10 seconds to swallow the bait. No hook-up. Marlin comes back for attempt #3. This time the angler

She knew it, she knew I liked her and she did nothing about it. I guess I could have done something about it but I would have to be better looking, with clear skin, muscles that allowed me to lift things and push things until every girl within, I don't know, a mile's radius was lusting after me. But I was not. I had asthma and if I ate for a hundred years I wouldn't put any more meat on my bones than I already had. I don't know where all the food went. Mum said it all went to my brain but I don't feel particularly smart. If I was so smart I would figure out a way to let her know how I felt and find out what she thought about me. Actually I think I already know what she thought of me…I'd probably work to change that if I was as smart as my mother said. Mothers do that, tell you you're the smartest guy in the room and then kick your ass in front of family and friends for how you forget to do things and are always sitting around the house doing God knows what. Mothers sh