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Chuck,

Can't say enough about how impressed I am with the motor! Give me a call and I'll talk you right into buying one

Tom

Brad,

Yeah I was trolling with the ipilot probably 1.5 - 1.7 (wich I would assume is a little slow for pike) and right after I popped the downrigger I reeled it about 5 cranks almost as fast as I could reel and WHAM! Very exciting!

Tom

Bob,

Unfortunately my wife had to work, so Dustin and I snuck out for a couple hours and then Dustin and McKayla cleaned the house for mom

Tom

Mark,

You hit the nail on the head! " kids were gonna surprise mom with the house all clean" Thank you. Yeah that motor was just what the doctor orderd. I can't wait to try it trolling for trout on one of the finger lakes!!

Tom

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Thats probably one of the things that impressed me the most I trolled for probably an hour straight messed around with the spot lock...saw how fast the motor would pull the boat (3.5 mph) and that was with the gas motor dragging in the water also, so probably about a total of 4 hours and the battery meter never moved.

Tom

Great job Andy! Glad you got to get out..sounds like a good shakedown.

Tom

Dustin and I took a quick trip this morning...primarily to try out my new bow mounted trolling motor...Dustin did some casting while I played with my new toy . I gotta tell you...very impressed with the new Minn Kota ipilot trolling motors the thing worked flawlessly, extremely accurate..and I used it off and on for 4 hours and never moved a bar on the battery meter. Anyway back to fishing..Dustin didn't have much luck casting so I asked him if he minded if I played around with my new chamberlain releases to try and get them tuned in. Spent some time adjusting them and got them adjusted pretty well and decided to leave the two smithwicks that I had on the rods down for a bit and just cruise around the lake, after about 1/2 an hour I asked Dustin if he was ready to go...because him and his sister were cleaning the house for mothers day, and he said ok. I pulled the first rod and after reeling it in pretty fast for about 10 cranks it felt heavy, thought maybe I had some weeds until the rod started to bounce!! I said Dustin grab this rod I think we have a fish. He fought it for a couple minutes and said, yeah I think its just a small one Dad...until it saw the boat!! Off it went, I cleared the other rod and grabbed the net as he was reeling it in. Finally got it closer to the boat and it surfaced...very respectible Pike. So a very successful shakedown cruise with the new trolling motor.

Tom

Nice job there Capt. Chad!!

Tom

Should I be expecting the video to follow . Great job fishing!

Tom

A beautiful day it was Mike, glad you got out. How did the boat run?

Tom

Way to go Brian!

Tom

Thought and prayers your way Glenn...speedy recovery!

Tom

How bout some pictures.

Tom

How bout a price?

Tom

I hear you...I work for a large company and customer service is the biggest complaint I hear. It all went down hill when they moved it out of Rochester to Florida and Texas and who knows where else...nothing against people from Florida and Texas but how do you help someone in Rochester...when you are 1300 miles away . Oh well back to fishing

Tom

That seems to be the way of the world these days...if companies cared a little more about customer service everybody would be a little happier...there might even be some uplifting news in the news paper...not just who died and who got robbed...and wich politician...is leading the scandal news this week....sorry just my little rant...I'll never buy another stinger with that news

Tom

Great job Ted...glad you made it out.

Tom

i think they should be members. its not hard to become a member.

I agree with Traveling man. To be honest with you the only reason I went pro is I thought the site was awesome and didn't mind one bit supporting it. I'm getting to the point now that I would like to give when I can... info that is, cause so many have given to me. I think becoming a member shows atleast a little commitment...maybe i'm off just my $.02.

Tom

Great Video! Its funny when the lake is flat it looks like you guys are just crawling..and as soon as there are a few ripples it looks like you are flying! Thats some good fishin right there!

Tom

A nice stiff west wind here in Canandaigua Don't know what its doing up on the big lake?

Tom

Zeke here's wishing you a Happy Birthday Hope you had a great day take a day off and go fishing tell your boss I said it was ok

Tom

Sorry FISH-ON didn't mean to hijack your post all my leadcores are on okuma's thanks in part to "Lyteline"<------Another member on this board, but they are nice reels for the money.

Tom you need a 3 color for early season...........

3 color would be perfect and it would pull alot better on the inlines $$$ wow hope my wife doesn't see this post

Tom

Sounds like the kids have been keeping him out of trouble

Just got back from the last trip to school for the night Thats three trips back and forth tonight... Oh well I have the rest of my life to fish they are only young once

Tom

Same problem here the clear coat peels off and the paint chips...especially where the split ring attaches to the spoon.

Tom

Wow that thing is just plain THICK! What a beautiful brown way to go guys and gal!!!

Tom

okuma cv45d you can go with a 30d series for your smaller core set ups I have a seven color and a 5 color both on the cv30's

Tom

Nice job Mike,a day like that almost sounds like work Well.....not really

Tom

Glad you got to get out Mike, Liam and Bonnie, I'm sure it won't take you long Mike and you'll have the North end figured out . I can't believe Liam is 1!!! Wow time fly's hope all is well. Take care.

Tom