Killer Mod to Easily Raise and Lower a Trolling Motor on your Fishing Kayak 

Hey Kelly… Thanks for the kind words brother, and thank you for watching!

Good luck with your kayaks… I’m glad you found my channel 2, thanks for watching!

Thx Robby👍🏻

Not sure how I missed your comment but thanks so much for the kind words. I’m really glad the content was helpful. I really appreciate you taking the time to watch🤙🏻

Thanks brother! i appreciate that. A lot of trial and error!!!

Thanks Bobby appreciate you watching bro!

Thanks man! And thank you for taking the time to watch!

I appreciate that man… And I appreciate you taking the time to watch!

Thanks Tim!

My pleasure!

Thanks man it sure has made my life easier… I appreciate you watching brother!

Thx Lacy!!! Thanks for taking the time to watch!!!!

Great idea man! I thought of the same thing I was trying to avoid drilling it, but I think that’s gonna be the best way to go in the long run because there is so much tension when using the bungee that I don’t think the glue is going to hold overtime. It’s worked so far, but I think your idea would be a better long-term solution. Thanks!

Any chance you have a photo of what you did?

I’m actually working on a video right now that makes a way for you to raise and lower it without using the release tab. I wish I had thought of it earlier but I really didn’t have to alter much at all and it works like a champ. I’ve been using this for six months now and it’s amazing!!

@@justinmayer9973 I have a video up on my page. Check it out and see if it'll work for you.

Cool!!! Are you kayak fishing or bank fishing? Thx for watching!!!!

I was bank fishing, but im going to kayak fish next time, and bring more bait!

Thx Jobuck!!! It gets the job done... I’m actually an audio engineer by day but I love tinkering..😉Thanks for watching!!!

Maybe! Let me know when you’re ready so we can plan your build👍🏻

Hey thanks man… Stay tuned because I have an improved version of this that is much easier and efficient! I’ll be dropping a video in a couple weeks on it🤙🏻

@@FlintHillCatfishing thank you🙏👍✔

Great questions. For your first question, yes keep it unlocked most of the time. I only lock mine when I am floating down a river and trying to slow myself down to fish certain parts of the river. For your second question yes you do have to register the boat if you put a trolling motor on it, not the Motor, just the boat. In South Carolina it’s only like $20. I called DNR in my state to confirm the regulations. I would encourage you to do the same just to be sure. I have a lot of fishing videos with me using Trolling Motor and it’s awesome, take some time to check them out. Thank you for watching!

That’s the truth Georgia! Thanks for taking the time to watch brother🤙🏻

Rock hill brother👍🏻

With the way that I fish, having the trolling motor beside me really gets in my way. It’s not a super quick job, but it is well worth the time invested in my opinion. If you haven’t seen the video on my channel of my trolling motor install, go check it out and It will answer a lot of questions for you. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. This is the best mod I’ve ever done to my kayak, it opened up so many different ways to fish that I haven’t been able to do previously simply by paddling. Also, I have it set up with a foot pedal steering system so that I am hands-free. Here’s the link to the video… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SjlvGDHUs6A.html

Hey Dan thanks so much for watching brother… I have another video that talks about the trolling motor install in detail and you can find a link in the description that will take you to my speed control👍🏻 let me know if you have any problems or can’t find it.

Thx David!!

Not sure I understand your questions LOL… Always hid my weed when I was younger😂.

lol

So, you don’t get any weed/grass in your motor ?

@@RachiOrion I got you now… Fortunately I don’t have to deal with a lot of grass/weeds where I’m at so I haven’t had to deal with that problem. That is a good question though but I don’t really have an answer. Sorry I couldn’t be more help on that one. However, I’m coming out with a new video on a new and improved way to raise the motor. It is very similar to what I’m doing now but it raises the motor straight up and down rather than swinging it out and swinging it back down if that makes sense I’ll have it out soon

@@FlintHillCatfishing thanks for your honest answer. I didn't tested my one yet. It was in my mind that's why i’d asked you because your video helped me a lot to put my motor on. I’d install an 8” actuator to lift it.

Ralph… You had me cracking up reading all of your replies😂😂😂I like your idea for the locking mechanism… We do think alike a bit👍🏻 I really appreciate you watching👍🏻

I’m not really sure Matthew… It was a piece of stainless steel that One of my friends had in their shop so we fabricated it to work. I would say stepping out on a limb… That if you went to a machine shop and had them fabricate it it would probably cost $50-$100 stainless steel

Dang Steve… I should’ve said this in the video but I didn’t think about it.... when I use the gorilla glue tape, I take a heat gun on low heat and just heat The object up just a tad that I am putting on the kayak, but I do it while The object is still in my hand. The heat causes the tape to get a little softer and the tape get softer so adheres really well but is still removable. I also heat the surface of the Kia where I’m gonna mount it just a touch just to get warm. I hope your product works out feel free to reach out to me if you have any more questions and I’ll try to help

@@FlintHillCatfishing would the apoxy work ok too? Not sure I've seen the tape, but I'll try heating it up once I find some if my apoxy doesn't work.

@@Van50van i’m not sure what kind of epoxy you’re referring to, but I probably wouldn’t use any kind of liquid glue or epoxy on the surface of my kayak. That would make it pretty ugly if it dried and had to take it back off. But I may not be understanding what you were talking about. One other thing that I have done before that does not include the gorilla glue tape......I have used plain old duct tape to secure whatever I was positioning on the kayak and it works Just fine. I only used the gorilla tape because I had some at the house. I tried it and it works fine. I just really like to do a non-permanent dry fit to all my accessories before I drill holes and bolt them down to the kayak. Thanks for watching man!!!