I use jigs with either a plain head or Roadrunner head and various different curl tails and sliders. If you want to troll exclusively the electric steer motors are the way to go. But fishing flats, tree lines, docks and many other tasks are better suited to manual control in my opinion. Now throw in holding on an offshore reef, or other things and the anchor mode comes in useful as well. I would way all those out before dropping coins on a new trolling motor, especially if yours is working well. And if yours is tiller style steer its does not have the tendacy to spin off course as badly as a cable steer foot control, just put a lil more tension on the adjustment knob so it can not spin off unwanted.