Thread: Pulling Cranks 101

Well Mr Quik, have you ever heard the term the bigger the better. Well, it definitely applies here. The larger the voltage of your trolling system the longer you can stay on the water trolling. For example a 12v trolling motor with a group 27 battery you can troll for X amount of time, use a group 31 battery you can troll for X+X amount of time. Now jump up to a 24v or 36v system and you continue to up your time on the water. Example..yesterday I trolled cranks for about 3 1/2 hours and when I got home and plugged back in I still had 75% battery left now that I have gone to the group 31 batteries. Hope this helps some.

I pulled cranks along side of Tritonman yesterday. I have a heavy glass boat and had 3 of us in the boat. I use a 24v TM with IPilot. Like T-Man said, we pulled for 3 1/2 hrs and I had plenty left in my first set of batteries. Yea, I have two sets of class 31 batteries in my boat just in case I want to pull cranks all day. I have two female TM plugs so when I deplete one pair of batteries, I can switch to the other set by changing to the other plug. May be a little overkill, but I'm ready if need be. Lol

Scott, you would go way over the limit if you stayed on the water long enough to use up 2 sets of batteries.

Pulled cranks yesterday at Enid from 6:00 til 1:30. Terrova 80/24. Motor was pulling on 4.5 when I finished.

I have a PD55 with 2 group27 in parallell I trolled 4.5 hrs. yesterday and had 12.24 volts when i got home I think thats about 60% charge. It was pretty windy and going into the wind the motor was running 90%

I guess you could leave the bail open to let line out but it would be difficult to know how much line you have out. Line counter reels take the guess work out of it. The Bandits I buy are Series 200 and Series 300 only.

Maj, dont you think a 300 would pull line out if I put the reel in reverse and not open the bail. Also, I have put on line stops at 45,55,65,and 75 feet so I got a place to start with amount of line out.

I don't know if the 300 would pull the line out or not as I have no experience that. Throw one in the water and see. Your line stops should keep you close.

Originally Posted by majflyboy

I don't know if the 300 would pull the line out or not as I have no experience that. Throw one in the water and see. Your line stops should keep you close.

They pulled out but it was slow so I just opened the bail and watched my line stops, worked fine.

Well I just received my Okuma reels, waiting on the line to get here from bass pro. My Terrova w/I-Pilot will be here Wednesday, hope to have it installed by Friday. Bought some bandits and slab hammer baits, can't wait to try this out, thanks to all who have contributed to the thread, oh and I will send you the bill for all this stuff.......lol