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  1. 08-20-2012, 08:09 PM #1
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    Hello All,
    My name is Postalmule,(Letter Carrier for 34 years).Hung up the mail bag the first of the year.Anyway I
    am coming out of the shadows,so to speak. I have been watching your board for sometime, but never had
    anything to contribute. Well now that the house is mostly done, I have refurbished my old Landau boat and am ready to install rod holders. My question is ,should I setup to push or pull to troll, or both,and why? I won't
    ask for honey holes ,or anything like that,as I have fished my whole life in FL.(saltwater) so I know how that goes. But ,this Speck fishing is all new to me.


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    do both because some lakes u have to troll and some u spiderrig.rig for both and u can fish anywhere.welcome aboard!!!
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    ^^^^ what Slabkeeper said! Welcome to the mad house. Hope you can join us for some slabfests.
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  4. 08-20-2012, 08:29 PM #4
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    X2, best of both worlds!
    crappie down !
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    PUSH PUSH PUSH PUSH all the time and TROLL sometimes. Welcome!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Speckanator View Post
    PUSH PUSH PUSH PUSH all the time and TROLL sometimes. Welcome!
    Just the opposite.......Troll 99.99% of time and rest the other .01
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    Well, on my old boat I had the trolling motor mounted on the back, seems like the bow always
    wanted to vere off to the right or left = always having to correct etc, etc, etc ...
    So, on my new boat I had the trolling motor on the front, and thought that would be better,
    as it would be pulling and the back would always follow = that didn't work any better,
    the trolling motor I got would always take off right or left when I left it alone = always have to correct.
    I am of the opinion that having it on the front is better, but it's easy to control with the front deck I got
    now = would've been a real pain in my old boat (no front deck), etc ............................
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantom309 View Post
    Well, on my old boat I had the trolling motor mounted on the back, seems like the bow always
    wanted to vere off to the right or left = always having to correct etc, etc, etc ...
    So, on my new boat I had the trolling motor on the front, and thought that would be better,
    as it would be pulling and the back would always follow = that didn't work any better,
    the trolling motor I got would always take off right or left when I left it alone = always have to correct.
    I am of the opinion that having it on the front is better, but it's easy to control with the front deck I got
    now = would've been a real pain in my old boat (no front deck), etc ............................
    I find that the steering problem is how the boat is loaded.
    If you are moving around on the boat, you are shifting the load and this will cause the erratic movement of the boat when moving forward with the trolling motor.
    Just my .
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    Just mount rod holders all around the boat, when you have 3-4 rods bent over at the same time you will know what works.
    The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?"
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    Quote Originally Posted by lightwirehooker View Post
    Just the opposite.......Troll 99.99% of time and rest the other .01
    Naw! Don't listen to him...he's from Georgia! PUSH PUSH PUSH!!
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