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They lay a framing square along the bottom of the boat, the 2ft length along the bottom in the exact middle, then they slide the square inward till the 1ft side hits the transome. Then there is a formula to use with the amount of space from the bottom of the boat to where the square hits. Then that determines where the bracket goes and the motor. I don't know what the formula is, also they take into consideration the HP of motor and the size boat, because they will do a hole shot and it better not cavitate!!. My mom lived in Florida right next to a marina, it seems like it's outboard city down there, I used to watch the guys at the shop a lot!! and I asked questions to the workers, just to make conversation. I couldn't stand the azz hole guy my mom was with, Mr. Been there Done that

Thats the best idea I heard yet

Jako, that's for lakers just off the bottoms and there you need to be slow, like for walleyes, 1.8 - 1.5 at the ball. With the salmon, 2.3 and up to 3mph. One thing to keep in mind!! Salmon can't see down, I'd rather be 15' above them than 2'below them. If you see marks I usually tell guys to fish the mark. Because say the fish is 90FT below the surface and you fish the marks 99% of the time your above the fish, considering blow back and currants, but if your fishing a 16# torpedo or a bikini shark, and using a fish hawk then you'll be pulling right through them. But the guys guessing at the amount of cable out to compensate the blowback are usually fishing below the fish, they won't get bit, but the guys fishing 10+ above will have a better chance, then those fishing 5ft below the fish. Hope this helps ya. Good this year!!

Just run big boards and be done with it. They pull like a mule and no issues. There was a thread like this years ago and a blueprint for homemade ones. The price of a cedar or that artificial decking 1X6 and some all thread you'll have enough cash to put a days worth of gas in. I added more angle on the front edge and shortened up by 3" best boards I ever owned. I have 2 sets of planers in the corner of the garage. Just my $.02

The set back is 29 inches, if you go onto the brackets website, they claim the set back is determined by the amount of water the motor needs not to cavitate plus the room it takes to tilt forward and not hit anything .

Jim, are your 2 batteries up front of the boat for your trolling batteries? Do you have them isolated from the charging system?. You got a lot of stuff running off one battery. I have 2 batteries group 27's. If you have a older kicker they don't put out enough to keep your batteries up to full charge they only put out 5-6 amp at high rpm's. Now the newer models like the big foot and others designed for trolling have higher output. I'm certainly not headed out with one battery, I wired mine to a Perko switch and run my riggers off my main, which lasts a long time. If I want to move I switch to both and she fires up and I let it there till the. Both are reading 14 volts shut main down and switch to battery 1 again. Or keep a set of jumper cables near by in case you need a jump you have those other two batteries up front. I've seen too many batteries take a dump for no reason to have all my eggs in one basket. I have put together a 130 amp alt. in my boat. Being that I was in the starter & alternator business for 20 some years before my accident. I no longer can do it but I still have my equipment, getting it set up at the house so I can mess around with the older stuff that you can't go to a big box store and get.

OH dear God I know better than to go that route, I'd rather stare at the walls. I do have a prodject coming up soon, and this time it's my idea. I want to remove the old grout in the kitchen and redo it and this time seal it. Since the kids got older going on 12 in February there is way more traffic going in and out, now it's discolor. I hated the original color, not what we picked out, but till we got to see it it was dry and finished.

X2, he has made some incredibly fine drags, out of my reels. I didn't have the money to buy Okuma or convectors, and certainly not higher end reels, I bought Cabela's brand 2nd gen Cabela's 20's and 30's and just a few 40 series reels worked good for 3-5 years then the drags started to stick. So I sent them to him and now they work as smooth as my Mitchelle tidewaters. Not that bod of a price was around $100.00 for 10 reels so $10.00 a reel, now I'm real happy, it's like better than new!!!

100 to 150ft behind the ball

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