skipper19

0Yes! I have a Schumacher 2, 10, 50 amp charger that does exactly that. It will pulse a completely flat battery back to life and pulse a maintenance trickle on 100% voltage capacity of the batteries. Works very nice set on 10 amp. Guage and green or red lights tell you what it is doing. Got it at Auto Zone. About 55 bucks I think. Mark

One variable is not in the realm of anyone's control. We as thinking, scientific, data collection beings, will never be able to count on repeatability of one thing...another beings brain. The fish. You can have it all perfect on 100 boats, and 100 other boats not so perfect. The results still depend on the fish. The fish is mostly creature of habit, thinks slightly, reacts mostly. How it reacts is based upon a lot of variables not related to speed, depth, direction, temperature or type of lure on what deployment. We capitalize on most of the habits to increase our odds. Kind of like playing roulette on a table with a biased wheel. The ball falls on a known number more often than not, and it wins most of the time...until the wheel is moved to a different table on another day. Another brain has changed the winning program, like the fish do. A lot about a fish action is related to the masses of its kind it swims with. Either laying out of temp reacting to nothing or opposite reaction spectrum, a feeding frenzy brought on by its piers like a riot. Even half the boats doing everything wrong except scaring fish...another science on avoidance..will be marginally successful when the feed bag is on. Getting a negative fish to react has as much to do with a fisherman's persistence as it does having data and presentations. Having the will to find that roulette wheel and bring the known data to win again. Some days you will use that data and find that win of fish other days we will find that school and the bias is not there, but persistent trying will one day pay again using what we know, but you still will never really know without data, its communication with others,(THANKS Yankee Rick and others like him)....and persistence. In the end, the uncontrolled variable is a fishes brain that controls our success. 15000 dollars electronic equipment or not. I like data, so I feel better having as much as I can afford to help me win, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes something rookie wins. That's what makes this fishing so fun on so many levels that anyone can play and win on their own level. Down speed?., if you don't have it, don't worry, at some point your lure is right and you are at a close speed, AND....the fish will be in a frenzy right where you are. Mark

Wish I could do it again. Had fun last year running and gunning all over the west end looking for the next big king. Too much work this year so far keeps me out. It's a great easy event! No real pressure and a strategy to win makes it fun! Mark

I got some cordless extension cords for sale....

One phenomenon, maybe not,..I'll call it a revelation, about speed adjustments with GPS ONLY before down speed. We might decide to slow down the boat to entice a fish to strike cause its visible on the screen and following the ball. Then it strikes and we "think" the fish response was on a slower target on the same plane of depth. Next presentation uses the same speed and depth on the counter without another response. Frustrsted, what happened? I only know now what happened because of down speed now at the ball. The exact opposite of natural thinking. The boat slowed down but the ball and lure sped up on a pendulum swing. Actually sped up a lot more than expected, not just tenths but full mph or more depending on depth of troll. Being on "over simplified thought" before down speed, had me reproduce the exact WRONG speed, by 1 or more mph! Of course this information from down speed is one dimension that is important data IF you physically look at the down speed at the time the rod snaps off the release. The other dimension you cannot know is the depth at the perogee [spelling] of the pendulum swing towards the boat due to the gravitational pull of the Earth...before depth at the ball became a tool. Only that the temp changed Colder, moving down and faster as the boat slowed, which also may have enticed a strike. What goes on with long lines is any bodies guess...before advent of the wireless sensors. Mark

Down speed has never really been a determining factor, for me, when it's based on a few tenths of a mile per hour, but on the other hand down speed that pushes over a mile per hour difference from speed over ground GPS tells me a current is working against me on lure presentation, both speed and blow back depth. That information when compared has some merit, based on the visual of the lure action next to the boat at GPS speed. So for me I don't get wound too tight about a GPS and down speed being a few tenths off. Too many other factors are messing with all speed readings on rough days compared to smooth days on the water surface. I agree with your "minds eye" that speed and drag causes depth differences far greater than worries about speed down there. Amplitude becomes greater as depth increases and also as length of presentation increases. Depth is more critical in my opinion, in that it entails the precise location of a sharp thermocline you may be trying to target. However in that case, down temp does become more important in that it will tell you if your speed changes or your turns drops your lures into the cold zone, you now know that down speed changes depth dramatically and even more so when longer leads and deeper depths are being prowled. Ok .....that's it...too much to say..😉 Mark

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I agree 110 % with that! Feels like this season will be much better than last!

Anybody ever build one? I'm thinking of making my own char from all the apple wood around me and other hardwoods I could get. Looking for an efficient design made from barrels. I've seen some good ones working on u tube. Looks easy to some extent but I know details on drafting are the key. In any case, another reason to play with fire and feed my bbq obsession. 😈

There....see!?...somebody hid the wind up crank for the First On Race Day/Scotty. Crank up flathead beats a dead battery to the finish line! 😆

Nice job "scaring" the Maine folks with kings! Lol!😲👀..WTG RICK!

I guess I'm lucky. Never drain anything. Might be the quart of Lucas fuel conditioner and full bottle of stabil. Each spring I do a seafoam shock treatment (one can in a gallon jug of gas) let it sit for a few hours. Restarting and clean it out with a few jabs on the throttle. Yamaha OX66 225. If it starts running bad I change filters. All good.

Thanks, I have a 24 ft deep V and would like the benefit of charging at troll speed and possibly moving weight of the Troller 9.9 and gas tank off the dive platform and leveling up better. Also auto pilot would work much better with more prop in the water.

Thanks for the report! What size E tech on what size boat? Was wondering how these troll. Can you get it down to less than 600 rpm? Or do you use a sock or plate method to slow down...I know they are very fine motors and was considering repower with 115 or 150 twins replacing a single yammy 225. Mark

What Brian said! Kings will smash a dipsy spoon in 15 to 20 ft. Set it 3 or more out 25 and keep the drag light as possible. Smaller dipsey works good or no ring. Yes bring them. If nothing else lakers will eat off of them.