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Thank you, that’s a good idea because sometimes when I go off track I can recover with my paddle rather than moving the motor. I’ll try that next time out 👍.
Thank you, it tracks better if you keep it towards the back more rather than towards the middle of the kayak. If I lean a little to the right the kayak will turn left vise versus so I could steer it with my weight as I go miles up river. A bow mounted motor will track best while a rear mount is worst. I had a pod mount and it tracked really well but I couldn’t keep the motor up high in the water column like I can with the side mount due to the propeller hitting the kayak and it was slower because it actually blocked a part of the kayaks keel.
I would say on medium speed it would last around 4 hours of constant use, I upgraded to a 100ah lithium battery and haven’t drained it fully in one day on the river covering about 4 miles give or take and fishing 8 hours or so.
Yes, just use a voltage meter on the battery connections while using the motor, the more throttle applied the more power it draws unlike my watersnake trolling motors that always took the same amount of power regardless of the speed that I applied.
Electric trolling motors are not that loud, it’s the prop making most of the noise when high up in the water column, I lower it much deeper when in deep water or lake fishing but most rivers I fish are less than a foot in some spots during the summer and fall seasons.
I hit a log or maybe something else that was laying on the bottom of the river, during murky river conditions the water clarity is a couple inches if that so you have to be careful out there with the trolling motor in shallow areas.