I have cables labeled 1 and 2 that have what appears to be minn kota symbol on them. Positive and negative on both
This sounds more like cables from a on board charger. If your trolling motor is 12 volt then I would connect the trolling motor to just one battery and see if it works then move foreward with the rest of the wiring.
End of 1st quarter – has Edwards even scored?
April 29, 2025 at 10:11 am#2332970
I’m kind of a numbers guy so I had to look into this more. I saw one dealer advertise 7.79% for 15yrs. I took 7.5% and for every thousand it’s $9.25 a month and $670 in interest for life of loan.
15 yrs, $670 interest on a $1000 – let’s bump that to a $30,000 loan and you would be looking at a bit over $20,000 interest. Personally, I consider a 15 year loan on a boat almost criminal.
Without looking it up – I am pretty sure in Minnesota ATV’s are not allowed on any roads unless just crossing it. They are to be ran in the ditch which there is instructions on which portion of the ditch to use.
Side x Side are to be driven on the shoulder of the road unless there is a local ordinance against it. I believe Highways and Hwy ditches are off limits.
I believe these are state laws and I have never heard of any local ordinance that allowed more access.
Have you considered changing the speed filter?
No I have not and I was not aware of this. I will take a look tomorrow and see if this is a option on my unit.
Thank you for your assistance.
I received a response from Garmin yesterday afternoon concerning this issue.
I am sorry for any issue that the GPS signal may be having. There is no way to adjust the GPS acquisition. When the vessel is not moving the COG or Course Over Ground GPS lock has a larger degree of error.
My friend had one manufactured by Mobile Strong installed in his truck. I used it a few times and it was pretty nice.
Have you considered the possibility that the kraken is actually failing to maintain .1 mph and the echo map is actually reading accurately? In my experience the trolling motor remote doesn’t tell you how fast you’re actually going, it just tells you what setting you have it on. Have you compared using another GPS device? Try opening the Active Captain app on your phone. If that reads .1 that would confirm there might be an issue with your echomap; if it reads .3 I would trust that and start asking questions about your trolling motor.
I was on the Rainy last week trying to run upstream at .3 and I really could not use the Echompap efficiently because every time it thought that I was going slower than .3 it would read zero. I had to rely of the Kraken reading and I spent a good portion of the day with my fishing partner using the Echomap asking me “are we moving” because the Echomap was reading zero SOG quite frequently.
No, the Kraken could not hold steady exactly at .3 SOG which is not a concern. With non consistent current, wind and any turning of the trolling motor that would affect the speed it is impossible to keep a exact SOG of .3.
The Kraken remote has a cruise control setting but also states actual SOG of .1, .2 and so forth.
With hours of running the trolling motor last week from zero to 1 mph or more the Echompap SOG would read about every fraction above .3 but would not read anything between Zero and .3. I can guarantee that I was running between .1 and .2 SOG for a fair portion of the day but the Echompap would not show this.
I have not concerned myself yet with the accuracy just why the Echompap won’t read anything between Zero and .3.
I had April 15. Saw a 20th and 21st on here. Is it price is right rules, if you go over you lose?
Sorry, Looks like Big G for the win. 4-19
I heard the prize was a case of leftover Bud with Mulvaney’s picture on it so I was not taking this seriously with my 4-14 guess. 
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60″? Either you fish in relatively calm water or you like to hear that lovely noise of the prop cavitation. If you were fine with a 60″ before you will be fine with a Quest 60″.A 620 and 621 are desired boats for big water. You can’t say that about a Minn Kota with 60″ shaft.
Been on LOTW plenty of times without a single issues. Barges on the Mississippi throw a pretty good wake, too.
You realize how far below the waterline a 5’ shaft goes, right?
Barges on the Mississippi? Been there and have not experienced much of a wake compared to many experiences on large lakes. And a short 1 minute interruption of calmness is not much of a concern to me. LOTW? Been on the south end where it has been too bad to get out on the water even to have to worry about a 60″ shaft.
To answer your question, no I do not know how far below the waterline a 5′ shaft goes and I do not really care. I just get slightly irritated from the noise from prop cavitation.
My opinion has not been formed by hypotheticals but in my real world experience. So to rehash my thought of a 60″ is that it will work but in rough conditions you will experience cavitation prop noise and I dislike this noise.
60″? Either you fish in relatively calm water or you like to hear that lovely noise of the prop cavitation. If you were fine with a 60″ before you will be fine with a Quest 60″.
A 620 and 621 are desired boats for big water. You can’t say that about a Minn Kota with 60″ shaft.
I have 100 ah batteries which are great but the 140 ah offering looks even better. Then they came out with the 165 ah which would even be better.
The 165 ah was offered maybe 2 months ago at pre-buy at $289 then went to $329 and today is at $389.
Sorry, had a typo at $189 but I corrected to $289
I can’t get a great read on Yamaha recommendations. Seems like some of the concerns/issues might have been from earlier models of batteries. Seems like a lot of people are using them with Yamaha SHO motors which I have but from the limited research that I have done I did not see any one addressing the cold temp issue that we experience around here.
However, for me the staring battery is the easiest to access and and just switch out during the freezing temp time frame of the year.
Got an email from litime today saying prices are going up April 24th
Will the discount be down to 50 % off instead of 57 % off? They are a bit funny with the way that they market their pricing structure. Are we at the 245% tariff today?
Garmin customer service – 4 whole days with out a response from Garmin customer service from my first e-mail. I had sent them a 2nd e-mail over a day ago as well. I decided to call their customer service this morning and they are closed today for the holiday. Can’t remember the last time that I encountered a company closed on Good Friday…..
Have a friend that on their old family farmstead in Minnesota went from renting out to CRP then to a conservation easement. Approx. 100 acres with 2 ponds but any water is all contained within the property. They hunt which is mainly pheasants but also ducks and deer. The payment for the easement was more than 75% of the going rate of the acreage to purchase. The state also paid for a couple of burnings and seeding.
No access to the public, very little benefit to anyone or anything but the owners of the property for their private hunting preserve. To me, in this case it seems like a crock of sh!! that the state would spend that kind of taxpayer dollars for this property. Maybe if it where a buffer zone or something but this is not the case.
I can’t see my original post…..
My Garmin Echomap Ultra 126sv is set up showing GPS speed over ground. It shows at zero when not moving but when you start moving the minimum reading above zero is .3 mph SOG. It will not show .1 or .2 which seems wrong. I can’t locate a setting to allow me to change it. I am currently on software 29.01 which this update was performed on 3-31-25. I am not sure if if this was working any differently before the software update or not.
My Kraken trolling motor remote shows SOG of .1 and .2 so my Echomap should as well. I have sent a e-mail off to Garmin but they have not responded yet and seem to be slower in responding lately…
My made first trip ever to Rainy River. Arrived late afternoon on Wednesday but with the weather just was not interested in hitting the water till Thursday morning.
We went out of Birchdale and my first impressions is OMG on the number of boats. After this experience when I go to the Mississippi in Red Wing or Green bay even on the busiest day it will seem quiet in comparison. When we left yesterday afternoon it was astonishing seeing the trailers parked along the road all the way back and on to 11. If you want to reduce the number of boats you just have to not allow people giving rides back and forth from parking to the launch….
Fished mainly the Canadian side. Used 1/4 oz jigs and plastics. Fished Thursday and Friday during the day. I was not counting but my partner was and had us down at 24 walleyes yesterday with the biggest at 27 5/8″. I do not know the count from Thursday but it seemed about the same with the largest just under 27″. Seemed like the average size for us was a bit larger on Thursday.
Never fishing this system before, to me it seemed like a lot of walleyes biting for the extreme number of boats. Based on some of the other comments it looked like I missed out on some really good fishing in prior years.
Also seemed a bit of a cluster fu** in the camping area. It would not take much to make this quite a bit nicer.
I am not a expert but I have never heard of a ball with a different shank length clearance.
Usually the coupler is just bolted on to the frame. If you can not resolve the problem then I would replace the coupler unless some one else has more insight.
Always the first rule – make sure no one is filming….
I watched a couple of videos that were not getting me very far on a update to the Kraken trolling motor. On my 3rd video attempt I found one which showed a couple of different steps that allowed me to get past the roadblocks that I encountered following the first 2 videos….
I was finally able to update the Kraken software and it is now reconnecting with the chartplotter after shutting it down and starting back up.
My software on the chartplotters was not that old but I did a software update this morning to the chartplotters and the problem was exactly the same as my earlier listing.
I looked up the instructions on updating the Kraken but I hit a wall about half way through the process. I will have to watch the video again and see what I am doing wrong. Maybe I will attempt this later with assistance from my son….
South metro – put out the rain gauge last Wednesday. I did not check it till this morning and was surprised to see a little over 2″ in it.
HF1540 – And I received a response from my rep.
“Thanks for sharing this bill introduction, as I am not on the Ag committee.
With being spent into a looming $6 Billion deficit, I don’t see that this proposal even gets a bill hearing, nor passage.”
Coincidentally, speaking of being worried about stupid bills, I just found this one:
HF1540. “Thoroughbred Racehorse Residency Program”. Purpose- stimulate Minnesota’s equine industry and support stable hands….
Racehorse owners will receive $750 everyday one of their horse’s race; if said horse is boarded at a MN racetrack for 120 or more days a year..
Note this is per horse- they could get $3,000 in one day if they own and enter 4 horse’s. It would be funded by tax payer dollars coming from the general fund.Bill authors:
Ben Bakeberg (R)
Brad Tabke (D)
But don’t leave this part out.
“Mental health and education grants. Beginning in calendar year 2026, the
commissioner of agriculture must award grants to organizations that develop or deliver mental health and educational services to the stable workers of a racetrack or to others in the racetrack’s local community.”
The horse racing industry is always trying to increase their revenue but grabbing money from the general fund seems wrong. Yep, looks like a offering to keep the horse racing industry from nipping at the heals of the Indian gambling industry in Minnesota.
I have sent of a e-mail reflecting my irratation of this bill to my house representative this morning.
And I thought that we all would have to go out and buy Depends to get us through the long wait in line to cross…
If it was a fight between a feral cat and a dog at least a hunting dog. I know which one I would pick and it isnt the dog. As long as the cat doesnt get cornered that dog is going to get clawed and bit like crazy. The cat wont likely kill the dog, but the dog will not be having much fun. I have seen it first hand when we have ran into them pheasant hunting out West MN. Big old tough GSP goes in after a cat and comes back out with a muzzle full of cat claws and yelping like crazy. Now this dog went toe to toe with many racoons and never got the wrong end of the fight. Cats, that was a different story LOL.
That reminds me of a earlier experience and had to chuckle. My dog chased one of our cats up a tree. The cat just sat on a low branch just out of the reach of the dog. Every time the dog jumped up the cat took a swing at him and would catch him right across the nose. This was a time I think my dog was happy that I yelled at him and called him off. Only took 2 occasions such as this and my dog learned to play nice.
Sure there are some mean, nasty dogs that do not mind a few cuts from a fight but most dogs learn quickly that a cat with claws is a formidable fight.
Looks like a nice boat which I would not mind having it in my playpen. How old is it? What is the horse power rating of the boat?
Surely not a big water boat so it does have some limitations but there are quite a few people that never fish big water.
A center console boat will surely limit some of the potential interest if you try to resale it but there are so many other variables to consider when buying a boat which a simple single picture does not fulfill.
One part stupid and one part odd – Late last fall I made a half attempt in selling my boat. I pulled my 2 lithium batteries out for the Minn Kota trolling motor and put back in 2 lead acid batteries for this potential sale. I did not sell it and decided to keep it so yesterday I was going to put back in the 2 lithium batteries. 2 of a 12 volt battery hooked in series for 24 volts.
Not many cables in the compartment but I used zip ties to manage the cables and swapped 1 battery at a time. After connecting both batteries I changed the Minn Kota PCL charger (3 bank) charging profile over to lithium for these 2 banks. Several seconds later I have a solid red light on each of the banks for the lithium but the 3rd bank to the starter battery is running just fine, WTF. The charger was just working fine about a week ago when I plugged it in with the 3 lead acid batteries.
I checked all of the connections which looked good and pulled the fuses which were all good. My lithium have wifi connection so I open the app on my phone and the batteries look just fine, WTF. In case it was just the charger I plugged the trolling motor in and grabbed the remote and it states motor not found, WTF. I pulled one lithium battery back out with the assumption of putting back in the lead acid. Before trying to swap back with the lead acid I disconnected the cables except the charger on the remaining lithium. Now that charger bank is working fine, WTF.
The stupid part is now I remember that I did not turn the power on at the trolling motor earlier…. I connected the 2nd lithium battery up and both banks on the charger are working fine and the trolling motor is working fine.
Now for the odd – The first attempt of connecting the lithium batteries I connected the cables to the trolling motor closest to the battery and stacked the charger cables on top of these which I got the solid red light. The 2nd time connecting the cables I connected the cables from the charger closest to the battery and stacked the cables to the trolling motor on top. I found this to be rather odd but I did not spend the time to swap the cables back to see if I could duplicate the solid red light error code and I was just happy all is working again.
Last time I had to pay duty we had to pull over in the designated space and go in to the building. On a busy day they do not have much capacity to be implementing this tariff to everyone. This bottle neck would slow crossing the border to a crawl on any normally busy time frames. Oh, previously on a busy day it is already moving at a crawl. Is a snails pace more accurate.
Warroad and Baudette may not be so bad but International Falls would be a nightmare.
