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[QUOTE]Ranger - 12/22/2020  12:22 PM

Great question with lots of great ideas. One thing I didn't see mentioned is this....

A high-end bow mount trolling motor, with speed/direction/spot lock capability and a remote controller (hanging around your neck), combined with your transom gas motor in idle forward, is the ticket for a single person to delicately maneuver the boat in high wind. The transom gas motor provides just enough power to hold the boat stationary in the wind while the trolling motor keeps the boat pointed into the wind and sets the course and speed. First step is to set your motors...... put the bow mount troller in spot lock and trim the gas motor, in idle forward, up until the boat is stationary in the wind. Bingo, now you're using gasoline to provide most of the power necessary to manage your boat in high wind. But you won't be moving fast, you're moving as slow as you want using your bow mount troller.

This approach is especially useful when targeting open water high spots, like reefs and such. Approach from downwind, adjust your electric motor to hold the boat in place, cast directly into the wind and over the hump, then retrieve the lure right into the waiting faces of the muskies or bass or whatever. If you were to try to hold your boat upwind of the hump and if you have a problem then the boat is going to be blown over, or onto, that hump. Bad bad bad.

So, regardless of tiller or console gas motor, you want a great trolling motor on the bow.[/QUOTE]

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Posted 12/22/2020 12:22 PM (#972849 - in reply to #972773)
Subject: Re: Tiller VS Console...w/ a Twist.

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Great question with lots of great ideas. One thing I didn't see mentioned is this....

A high-end bow mount trolling motor, with speed/direction/spot lock capability and a remote controller (hanging around your neck), combined with your transom gas motor in idle forward, is the ticket for a single person to delicately maneuver the boat in high wind. The transom gas motor provides just enough power to hold the boat stationary in the wind while the trolling motor keeps the boat pointed into the wind and sets the course and speed. First step is to set your motors...... put the bow mount troller in spot lock and trim the gas motor, in idle forward, up until the boat is stationary in the wind. Bingo, now you're using gasoline to provide most of the power necessary to manage your boat in high wind. But you won't be moving fast, you're moving as slow as you want using your bow mount troller.

This approach is especially useful when targeting open water high spots, like reefs and such. Approach from downwind, adjust your electric motor to hold the boat in place, cast directly into the wind and over the hump, then retrieve the lure right into the waiting faces of the muskies or bass or whatever. If you were to try to hold your boat upwind of the hump and if you have a problem then the boat is going to be blown over, or onto, that hump. Bad bad bad.

So, regardless of tiller or console gas motor, you want a great trolling motor on the bow.