mr 580

Charity shoal is off the mouth of the St. Lawrence. Cape Vincent is a good access point, but have a Canadian license. Usually you don't see alot of bites, but when you do hook up it's a good one. Plugs off riggers and dipsey's have done it for me in that area.

Went 3 for 7. Lost some fish with some green guys on the rods. Best depth was forty down on riggers and 130 on a 3 with the divers. Good temp down 40. Stayed in 50 to 85 FOW. Nothing special-steady pick.

Have been running the Light Bite Slide Divers this season on my Power Pro Dipsey's- I use 50 ft of 30 lb Big game leader from the Power Pro. The Light Bite's have worked well on Lake Erie for eyes. Takes a little tuning to get to trip right but they end the problem of dragging shakers. I've used the original slide divers on my wire dipseys for three years and like them to the point I don't run the regular dipsey's anymore.

I'm running a 9.9 Yamaha kicker on a Proline 25 Walk with a Stainless Marine integrated swim platform that carries a 225hp ETEC. Used a bracket from Adventure Marine on the west coast to mount the kicker on. 9.9 pushes the boat fine. Agree that you would need to be sure your swim platform could carry a kicker. Once you've fished with a kicker, it would be hard to go back to trolling with a big motor. Good luck getting setup.

Lowrance website provides manual's on line and some basic trouble shooting. I had a problem with my Lowrance GPS locating satellites this spring after I'd moved the unit to a new boat. I called Lowrance service after double checking my wiring and installation. Lowrance diagnosed as a bad antenna and a replacement antenna cured the problem. Hope this helps.

I run an 8 hp on my 17 foot Lund and it trolls nice both slow and fast. Suggest you look for something with an alternator so you can charge your battery as you troll.