09-23-2010, 07:28 PM
I live in northern Ontario, Canada. I fish mostly for walleye (small to medium sized lakes). The boat/canoe I have been using for a while now is a 12 foot sports pal transom canoe, it weighs about 48lbs.
Up until recently I have been using an 30lb thrust electric motor. Just recently I took my girlfriend fishing. The lake became fairly windy and wavy, the little electric motor could barely bring us back to shore (this is typical and I expected it). But this experience scared the girlfriend a little. It took some thinking, but mostly because of safety, I need to purchase a gas motor, something I could depend on if winds and the waters got a bit to choppy for the electric motor.
So I decided to purchase a honda 2 HP 4-stroke motor. Heck it's light 28lbs (won't have to carry around that big battery anymore)
Anyway, I just bought the motor today, won't get to try it out till next week. I read some reviews and talked some owns of this motor... they said it's very hard to maintain a slow trolling speed with this motor. Has anyone else experienced such a problem with this motor or other motors? If so, is there an techniques I could use, to drive the motor, and keep it going slow, to catch them walleye?
The dealer ship said I could stretch the throttle spring, but then there would be no neutral.
Thanks.
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Up until recently I have been using an 30lb thrust electric motor. Just recently I took my girlfriend fishing. The lake became fairly windy and wavy, the little electric motor could barely bring us back to shore (this is typical and I expected it). But this experience scared the girlfriend a little. It took some thinking, but mostly because of safety, I need to purchase a gas motor, something I could depend on if winds and the waters got a bit to choppy for the electric motor.
So I decided to purchase a honda 2 HP 4-stroke motor. Heck it's light 28lbs (won't have to carry around that big battery anymore)
Anyway, I just bought the motor today, won't get to try it out till next week. I read some reviews and talked some owns of this motor... they said it's very hard to maintain a slow trolling speed with this motor. Has anyone else experienced such a problem with this motor or other motors? If so, is there an techniques I could use, to drive the motor, and keep it going slow, to catch them walleye?
The dealer ship said I could stretch the throttle spring, but then there would be no neutral.
Thanks.
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