I have a 17ft basstracker. Will a 55lb thrust bow mount be enough to bowfish off of? If so in a lake what about river?
55lb Thrust?
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Great. How much life do you get out of it and what kind of motor do you have
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·I have a 55lb thrust minn kota thats on my 1860 G3. I run an Iota dls-55 converter on it and it goes all night and I never charge the battery when I get home. It does have a hard time when we fish the river down stream for 6 hours then try to troll back up. Bottom line IMO, 55 is good for lakes but to fight the current coming upstream on the river I would like something bigger. I plan on upgrading at the end of the season to an 80.
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55# worked great on my 14' v hull towing it around on the river but I have a 16' Jon now with a 74# n I still would like a little more for rivers..
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Try Craigslist.. I bought my 74# minn kota for 200 bucks, guy used it barely 1 season, keep checking daily if not hourly
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Good troller! :tu:
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go bigger. i have a 16 foot bass tracker flat bottom pro 16 model. i put a 75 pound thrust motor guide on it and love it. its 24 volts and have never run the batteries dead. can troll up river or down even in swift current and at the end of the night. plus when you crank the speeds up you can get out of trouble without having to get the outboard started if trouble ever happens to pop up. plus the more fish you put in the boat the heavier your boat gets and the harder your trolling motor has to pull. i got mine on sale at bass pro cheaper than the 55 pound thrust to so the decsision was pretty simple.
I got a 2010 Motor Guide Great White 82lb thrust for $425. It may be a little too much power but its variable speed so I don't have to deal with the 1,2,3,4,5 stuff and being stuck between the perfect speed.
Thats good news to me. I didn't want to have to buy an inverter right now. You think I can cound on continuous power for 5-6 hours without problems? The guy I got it from had it on a 17ft flats boat and said he fished with it in the bay for four days in a row without charging it. But he wasn't fighting a current the entire time either.
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I tried one on my 2048 but if there was wind, witch there always is, sometimes it would not even move the boat. I know the boats bigger and most people won't go out in conditions I do, but I think that if the outboard fails the troller needs to have enough to get you home.
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I have a 45# on my 1860 and it's a heavy boat... Mostly shoot the Ohio river and it does fine!! How long it lasts depends on your battery.. I have 2 marine everlast maxx 29 batteries and I can troll 6 hours.. 5 hours pretty stong and it's turned up to 7 or 8 most of the time... I only had one instance where the wind was stronger than the troller... But if I were buying one I'd go bigger!
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