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| I have a 70# Maxxum and have been pretty satisfyed with it. On low speed settings you can set it on a course and take your foot off for short periods of time, while coming back every few minutes to make slight corrections. If you are using the higher speed settings in any kind of chop, your foot will be married to the control pedal using a Maxxum. A butt seat helps a lot to get weight off of your non-trolling foot in those situations because your foot is definately stuck there. Also important to keep your foot on the pedal at all times when running the max speed so the motor can torque out on you. I have often thougth that having more free range around the boat would be an advantage with the power drive but on the other hand I really like the instinctive nature of the foot pedal. I have a pretty good idea of where the motor is pointing by the angle of my foot position.
Probably an advantage not yet mentioned wih the Maxxum is that it is quite reliable being that it relies on a cable and pulley system for steering. No issues with shorts in wiring or motor failures.
To answer bn's question on what to do with the motor when catching a fish, 99% of the time I simply turn it off so it cannot cut my line and I can run around the boat with the fish until it is ready to net. Once the fish is in the bag, if necessary I make a course correction to avoid running up shallow. I can only think of one time where I was blowing up on a shallow rock bar while landing a fish where I had to give the trolling motor the grease shortly after netting a fish to avoid wrecking some stuff. Pretty sure I could move a fish with me if I had to during a fight unless it was right next to the boat.
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