Guntersville, 9-26

Went yesterday morning to see if I could find any fish that had moved up to the docks. Took UXOMAN with me and we had a great time. Water temp was a consistent 76-77 everywhere we went yesterday. Did not find a single fish on the docks in Honeycomb. Fished anywhere from 3-15 feet and zipped. Plenty of bream and buck bass there but only had one crappie hit and it surprised me so much, that I missed 'em! (tricky little buggers they always catch you when your guard is down!) LoL :banghead Did that from 0700-1100. So I moved back out to the channel and found the fish still out in 20 FOW and started trolling crankbaits. That was still working and did well there.

Unfortunately my batteries died and now I have to get some new battaries before the fall bite really kicks in. Anybody use the Interstate (black) battaries at Costco for $79? Figure they're all probably good for about 3 years before they go. When I bought my boat this year it already had the white and green Interstate battaries in there since 4/11. Any thoughts?

Bob I got interstate blems last winter from interstate in Huntsville. The ones before that lasted 5yrs. 50 bucks

I just bought 3 batteries for my trolling motor from O Reilly's on Jordan. $95.00 and 210 reserve amps. Not an interstate. The battery # is 31 DCM, I do remember that.

Ok Toad, I bite what is a blem and where do you get them? $50 sounds like a great price!!

Blem means just a battery that had a blemish on it (I think) and they sell cheaper. Ones with "recon" stamped in it have been reconditioned.

I fished Honeycomb docks on Thursday morning and didn't catch anything!

I use those. The first two times they only lasted about a year or two. But the last two times I went old school and the first three times I went out with the new battery I ran the stew out of the trolling battery. You don't want to go out the first three times with a new battery and barely use them with interstate batteries. It's the memory thing. They'll even tell you at the interstate place in Huntsville where that's all they do is sell those batteries. Especially the first time out. I trolled all day fishing, then at the end of the trip just went up and down the buoys for a long time, never ran it all the way down, but then 2 amp charged it all the way up right when I got home (takes abut 12-24 hours). After that you're good to go. I'm on year 3 with these and they have not shown signs of dying, although I'm waiting for it. They've done real well. The first two times I replaced them, they would check them and they showed up still good, but they would only last a few hours and then get real low. That's when serious anglers started telling me if you go like two or three times a week, don't expect trolling batteries to last like you'd want for more than a year. Building that initial memory charge, though, on interstate batteries seems to be the key to making them last.

Thanks Larry!! That's great info.

Bob they're the same batts.... According to interstate... With cosmetic damage.

Thanks Toad!! Went by there today after work, but they had already closed shop for the day.