I have a Lund Explorer 1675 with a Terrova 80. Fishing on the river with it is great. Plenty of thrust to move up stream. If you want to hover and jig set the motor speed to match the current set the auto pilot and fish. Put the remote steer on your wrist or rod and forget about being married to the foot pedal. Also the universal sonar is a must if you fish in rocky areas since the chance of knocking your sonar off the motor is eliminated.
Finally had a chance to call Humminbird. They are sending me some sort of choke kit for the finder and for the trolling motor. Hopefully it helps.
I do have a Humminbird cable installed, not the Vex cable.
Isn’t the HDS-5x a sonar unit only though?
With the networking do you need to have 2 GPS units, or can one GPS do the work for 2 units? 
Wade,
I heard April was the target month for the Navionics. Is there any truth to that? How can a guy tell by the box if it’s ready to go or not. Is there a date code or something?
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You probably have seen me post these comments on the site before but, the inability of teh hds 5 to read navionics chips makes it a poor choice. Lowrance is extremely slow in providing the updates for the unit that would enable it to read the cards. I have two of the hds 5’s right now and am not impressed at all.
Any idea if they have problems with Lakemaster Cards?
