Thread: Which Battery is best?

I put three Optima D34's in my boat over six years ago and literally have not touched them since! I keep the charger on them at all times and fish most weekends.....They run my MinnKota Terrova on a 20 ft glass Triton and I have never run out of power during a full day of trolling. I have been gone fishing a whole weekend where it was not convenient to charge and they have lasted both day's. When I need more batteries they will be Optima's....Put them in your boat and forget 'em! Take worrying about your batteries out of the equation come tourney time!!!

OK guys/gals I do appreciate all the comments and views. Fishervet, I apologize for putting this here instead of the off topic but I needed a battery before the Darbonne gathering and I knew I would get better responses here. Again I apologize. I did decide to go with the Optima blue top and will see how it works out. Bruce feel free to move this to the off topic so as not to upset anyone.

Thanks again for all of the replys.

takes more than that to upset me....it can stay Bruce...no worries Shadow..

FV, it can be moved. I got the battery and no need to leave it here. Thanks

Jig rig, you cited one specification of one of our batteries. In the next sentence, you speculated (falsely) about the quality of our products. In the sentence after that, you indicated another battery brand offers more than four times as much reserve capacity as our battery. What you didn't bother to explain was that you were comparing two entirely different battery group sizes. That's like telling someone who isn't familiar with trucks, that a Kenworth can haul more than an F-350, without explaining that one is significantly larger, significantly more expensive and may not be suitable for the same applications.


Jim McIlvaine
eCare Manager, OPTIMA Batteries, Inc.
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Talk about misleading.

I stated "Optima battery rate 150 down to 100 minutes discharge rate at 25amps" Which one spec is in that statement?

No speculation on your products. JMO. I've got three of your mexican made batteries under the bench that failed a few months out of warrenty.

I did no comparing of batteries. Just stated the facts. Which is Trogan makes batteries with higher discharge rate capacity than Optima. If that staments is not correct send me a link that shows differant.

Which one is better? Shiners or jigs?

Originally Posted by free bird

Which one is better? Shiners or jigs?

Silly question. We all know better.