trolling

[Tom Staples]

Re: trolling

Hello everyone! I'm new here and a new boat owner as well. My Father gave me his 16ft deep-v Grumman with a Johnson 60hp. This past week we took it on a lake here in NH and tried to troll for salmon, rainbows and lakers. Using leadcore line and trolling live bait and Sutton spoons, we got my boat to troll around 2.1 to 2.7mph using two five gallon buckets attached to my rear cleats.

The bags are the way to go. If you tie them off the cleats in the forward part of the boat

What are the bags you mentioned and what does putting them on forward part of the boat do? Another question is running my motor at and idling speed for most of the day going to hurt my motor? Thanks for the help and hope to learn a lot for this forum

 

[CATransplant]

Re: trolling

Nah, it won't hurt your motor. The only thing that might happen is a fouled plug, and today's motors don't do that so much.<br /><br />I've trolled for hours with my ancient Johnson 35hp, just going blub-blub-blub. <br /><br />One thing I always do, though, at the end of the day, is take the boat for a WOT joy ride around the lake, to blow the carbon out of the outboard and out of my equally ancient brain.