Thread: trolling motor 898c or 958c

Originally Posted by S-Town Crappie King

What kind of adjustments do you speak of, we have a 898 combo, and I have always thought a few adjustments need to be made but have never done them.

Off the top of my head, having been fishing strip mine lakes lately, is to change the max bottom setting on the fly. I'll go from out in the middle where its 60 ft to along the shore where I'll be in 20 ft. So I'll pull up the "quick menu" for the screen and bump the bottom setting till its at lake depth + 5 ft or so. Another is th SI width. Out in the open I'll have it at 50-60 ft or so. Up along the shore I'll narrow it up to 20 or so. I'm still new to these high end FF so the more I play with it the more I learn. Worse comes to worse and I get myself in a corner I just go to factory default and start over.

As far as clfarms idea. I just used the factory HB transducer mount but put it on the backside of the Po'Dunk mounting plate instaead of the front. This was mearly a personal choice as I'll go shallow with my mod-v a lot and I prefered the aluminum plate to lead the way. Also the way the Po'Dunk is mounted on my boat the trolling moter skeg will hit long before the transducer unless I go in at a radically stupid angle and I would never do that.

Also the way the Po'Dunk is mounted on my boat the trolling moter skeg will hit long before the transducer unless I go in at a radically stupid angle and I would never do that.

Unless your in in 4 foot of water and there is a 3 foot talk rock or stump that lines up with your transducer and totally misses your trolling motor. But its a good thought. It the top bolt was a really soft grade 3 or less bolt and a smaller one so if you hit something hard it would shear. but good idea mounty on the backside gives it a chance to kick up