Durdy Daug
12-12-2015, 07:34 PM
Started the day with slight wind, water temp was 51.3°, went to the spill way to begin the day, there were only 3 or 4 other boats on the lake, there were none of the usual cars parked on the road in this morning, which I thought to be strange, but after about 1 or 2 hours I could see why. The wind picked up making for an already cold day even colder. Guy on my boat caught a nice cat there on sardine, then nothing for a long time so off to the quarry we went, there we lost a grip of lead as we drifted fast and kept getting caught on the Rocky bottom. We stayed at it until 15:00 then decided to pull the plug, ended with 2 cats and 1 striper small/medium sized, tried fishing Miller's as well but simply got blown out. Water temp was 53.4°at the end of the day.
Question - last week I broke the pin in my trolling motor due to fishing line getting wrapped up in the prop, I bought a new prop and pin. The motor seams very slow, I took the prop off in my drive way and then ran through the 5 speeds, it seemed that it was going faster in 2 than it did in 5.
Does that make any since to anyone out there? I don't want to buy another trolling motor if there is an easier, cheaper solution. I was hoping that simply replacing the prop would have been enough... it could have been the wind and current, but it did not seem right.
Question - last week I broke the pin in my trolling motor due to fishing line getting wrapped up in the prop, I bought a new prop and pin. The motor seams very slow, I took the prop off in my drive way and then ran through the 5 speeds, it seemed that it was going faster in 2 than it did in 5.
Does that make any since to anyone out there? I don't want to buy another trolling motor if there is an easier, cheaper solution. I was hoping that simply replacing the prop would have been enough... it could have been the wind and current, but it did not seem right.