10-05-2017, 04:40 AM
Watch this video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtyfMNgNPc8
If you do that and mount the motor on your motor mount you will be going forward with the motor but backwards in your boat.
To put it another way the motor is in forward gear but still pulls your boat backwards. That is much more efficient and gives you much longer battery life. It also gives you more speed settings to use for trolling.
I mount mine offset to get to the handle. I then steer with my fins in the water. Learning to steer with your fins takes a day at the most. Just turn the motor on 1 and drop your fins in the water and push them to one side or the other of center and you'll feel the boat turn.
Oh and I do have a switch so I can just reach over to my side and kill the motor while I fight the fish or cast and retrieve for awhile.
I also troll a sinking line and steer the whole time with my fins. With the on/off switch next to me I almost never touch the motor for anything other than raising and lowering the speed setting.
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If you do that and mount the motor on your motor mount you will be going forward with the motor but backwards in your boat.
To put it another way the motor is in forward gear but still pulls your boat backwards. That is much more efficient and gives you much longer battery life. It also gives you more speed settings to use for trolling.
I mount mine offset to get to the handle. I then steer with my fins in the water. Learning to steer with your fins takes a day at the most. Just turn the motor on 1 and drop your fins in the water and push them to one side or the other of center and you'll feel the boat turn.
Oh and I do have a switch so I can just reach over to my side and kill the motor while I fight the fish or cast and retrieve for awhile.
I also troll a sinking line and steer the whole time with my fins. With the on/off switch next to me I almost never touch the motor for anything other than raising and lowering the speed setting.
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