Motor guide xi5 trolling

[Bike and Boat]

This may be a dumb question, but…. When others set their battery/GPS trolling motor to steer and primarily push ur boat w a kicker, how exactly do u do that?  Directional lock the electric at a low speed and then have kicker adjusted to get to desired sog? 

[tyler.woodard04]

I built a skeg ext for my trolling motor, I lock the kicker straight and just under desired speed.  then use the trolling motor to get to target speed and use the speed control to maintain.  adjust accordingly for current and wind ext.  then just set the heading and the trolling motor does its thing to maintain the speed and heading.  seems to work for me.  the extra surface area on the skeg of the trolling motor definitely helped maintain the heading better.    

[idn713]

All you have to do is drop your trolling motor, directional lock it on like a 3-6 setting (depending on wind and waves) and then get your kicker on a steady low push. Doing this has revolutionized my small boat trolling and essentially turned into a low cost autopilot. 

[Bike and Boat]

Thanks. We’ve started to really like jigging for trout but I’ll give this another try when we set up for trolling.