Tog Tails

[Got Stripers]

That is exactly the motor and I'd have to dig to find out the weight of my boat, it's a 196CC McKee Craft; so not light but not a beast either. The 36V 101 lb thrust will hold me in most current's unless you have a lot of wind and swells, which tend to pop the prop out of the water every once in a while. What's nice is using the compass or heading feature, I can lock in a course, then adjust my power setting and the motor will constantly adjust its heading to attempt to hold course. It's great to set up fish a spot for 15 minutes, 30 minutes or as I did Saturday for almost 3 hours without ever having to anchor. If you were fishing with it along say the Islands and tracing the contour of the coast, you can set the Ipilot to track your course, repeat or reverse it. I don't use those features all that much, it will run all day (my day is say 6am to 2pm) without really loosing all that much power.

As a tournament freshwater bass fisherman, when I went looking for a center console, I specifically wanted to find a hull that suited mounting a bow motor; wide enough deck, no rails and low enough to the water to make it feasible. Not every hull is suited for this, the McKee 196CC happened to be ideal. The link below I found has a video of my exact hull year and in fact the same trolling motor, which clearly shows why that hull is so easily fitted with one.