This year I bought the 80 ah from amped outdoors. Running a 36volt in a 2060 skeeter. Been on p4 with it and mill lacs. Put in some 10-12 hour fishing days and no loss of power, while leads on the river for me would get about 8 hours when new. I used to compensate with using the kicker in high winds or fast current to get longer run time on lead, but have not had to do that this year with lithium.
Downside to lithium is they must be above 32 degrees to charge. I have a heated garage, or you can get the heat packs like what battle born sells.
I plan on getting a small 12v 200watt electric heater to stick in battery compartment for my trip to lotw this fall. Hope this helps!

Nice video and walkthrew.
I and probably others I bet would like to see same kind of presentation in regards to lithium’s in boats.
Thanks for the info!

We just went to the Boat Center and purchased a power pole with blade. So looking forward to see how that performs on the big waters this summer.
Biggest thing I have enjoyed is learning how to run boat in 2’ters with tabs.

Ramps for both pools are good to go. Honestly, not trying to spend your money, but For your first time out, grab a friend, leave your boat at home and give one of the local guides a call. I know both Denver McKinnon or Mary Hahn fish multiple pools on the Mississippi, which is important in my opinion to stay on the best bite. Definitely helps the learning curve. We been hitting the river 3 out of 4 weekends a month, year round on average for the last ten years, and still learning the different pools. Heck, I’ve learned a couple techniques just watching them over the years.
The river can be pretty awesome when you get a bite dialed in.

Oh it’s legit. Two twin young men that are passionate outdoorsman and fun to fish with. They weighed the fish a day after. I would guess that fish was a legit 15lbs when it was fresh out of the ice hole. Those guys throw many big fish back. I’m glad he’s mounting it.

Steve Foss is the guide I would use for the Ely area. Enjoy your trip.

Tucker Hanson
Billy Schraeder

Hope it all works out. Another shout out to SBC! Management philosophy trickles down to workforce. They are not miracle workers but go beyond what would be considered “normal service” Don’t know how that translates to price even though I know they are competitive, but being a weekend warrior having my boat delivered/ maintained when stated is great!

Reminder . Address of venue is 1652 E frontage rd, Rochester,mm
Hope you see you there. This is a free, open to the public event.

Drew andf Tucker

Turk,
Sounds interesting. Where do you meet and how often.

Yes sir,
Nick S. out of the Lake City office will be presenting. He usually has some good graphs with the data they have collected that he puts up on the big screen.

You have a pm

Happy B-day RRR!

Couple other features worth noting is the taller windshield and a storm guard that can be pleaced between lower part of windshield and rod locker. This will make those cooler days running around more comfortable. I am ready to get ours out this spring! We tpically carry 14 rods for 4 presentations on the river with 4 rods over 10′ so that rod holster is gonna be great! I wish I would of remembered to snap some pics of ours when we were in Ramsey so I could look at it everyday! Winter is good for only 2 things. Pitchin the river and slab fishing on Rainy! Come on Spring!

Dean at Skeeter Boat Center has a 2006 lund with 225 merc. and a kicker. We use this boat for awhile. performed well for aluminum boat. Kicker ran flawless, has the old minnkota auto-pilot which foot pad I hate, but has hand control also.

Sounds like you need to clean the carb. Did you run see foam in your gas? For us it helps greatly. Fairly simple to do. Cleaned my carb twice the first 12 years of strikemasters early years and none the last 5 with See Foam use. Scary to think how many holes we have cut.

Andy and Tucker Hanson

A licensed and bonded class A electrical contractor is what you need to be looking for. They are the ones who carry the insurance in case somthing horribly goes wrong in the future.

We have used the 1850 the past 4 seasons fishing app. 50-75 days on the water. It is a definate upgrade to aluminum in the way it rides in rough water and how it tracks when rigging or trolling. The Yamaha performed flawlessly. Great motor. I think your dad will be happy. Storage was greatly enhanced from my earlier boats. First year we had both speakeers go bad and somthing else I cannot even remeber ,but SBC took care of it no questions as it should be.That being said I did sell mine 1850 to upgrade to the new 1910. The new side holster rod lockers SKeeter has along with the traditional rod storage in the center will be a great asset to us as we keep 16 rods for 4 different types of fishing we do on the river. I am also tweeked to see how the react keel fishes on the 1910 compared to the 1850. Of course no one wants to talk money as the sky is the limit when fishing, but four me I always go into it with a budget ,and Skeeter does a pretty good job of pricing. Not saying its not alot of money, but when I compare boats and their relative pricing to what you get for your money it works for me. Tell your dad good luck , lets see some pics of the new boat and give your comments when you get a chance to try er out.

Hey Dean!
Sneek mine with on the plane ride home! Tuks silver bullet kinda hard on my back. Never thought my 1850 would sell in 18 hours.

Dean Marshall wrote:

Sounds like mid summer is the target production and will be a 2015 model yr as of today…. perhaps sooner!

We been counting and it’s almost mid-summer. Any gossip lately on the 19 footer?

We agree there are fish to be caught!

I talked to a buddy up at the greenway station who said he did well on walleyes in lower pepin on cranks this week. Had to sort through some but there were bigger ones in the mix. 15 to 18 fow.

Walleyeguy, those are some girthy eyes! if you don’t mind sharing, what type of plastics did you find to produce and what weight of jig?

this information is directly from the DNR on angler harvest versus netted walleye harvest in pounds. The first number is the year, the second is the band harvest, and the third is the angler harvest. When they are netting just as much if not more than they were before the resource was exploited, there is not going to be a bright future for red lake walleye…

Here are the pounds harvested by jurisdiction:

Band State

1990 486,000 *

1991 416,000 *

1992 415,000 *

1993 151,000 *

1994 90,000 *

1995 67,000 24,000

1996 14,000 13,000

1997 ** *

1998 *** *

1999 *** ***

2000 *** ***

2001 *** ***

2002 *** ***

2003 *** ***

2004 *** ***

2005 *** ***

2006 14,000 54,000

2007 82,000 100,000

2008 442,000 90,000

2009 625,000 147,000

2010 425,000 100,000

2011 632,000 79,000

2012 249,000 72,000

*

No creel survey

**

Commercial harvest closed

***

Complete walleye closure

Nice recap Its always an adventure.

Think about your connection from otter to sled. When this and it will comes loose , off your stuff goes flying. I am, after our last excursion using a extra long pin with cotter key. For next trip in couple weeks I believe I am going to modify this furhter by install a light duty chain from toe bar to sled in case pin falls out. This will be to hinder toe bar falling down into snow and flipping otter and equipment . wrecked alot of stuff last time out and no fun when miles out an no one around. Thankfully we go in groups and have doubles of things. When in deep snow you cannot pull going slow or risk being stuck.

if your trolling motor isn’t a cable drive, spray wd-40 on the shaft before and after you set it in the water. This will prevent it from freezing solid when pulled up

Andy and Tucker Hanson