Got a little more than supper!

I worked late last night, so I decided to sleep in and go a little later. Left the house about 9:30 this morning for Lake Martin. Pulled up 5 minutes later and there were more trucks then water to fish, so I decided to head to Bayou Amy. Started fishing about 10:30 and had 6 keepers within the first hour. Just when I start telling myself I had supper; I got more than that! A broken trolling motor!🤬 I was trolling along when all the sudden it just quit, forcing me to throw in the towel. Got home and tested the battery, but everything was good there. Guess i’ll Be tearing it down tomorrow to figure out my issue. I’ll take the bad with the good, cause I’m eating fresh crappie tonight with a little backstrap from one of the deer I killed this winter.

Nice looking fish

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But Your eating well tonight


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Sorry for the bad luck with the trolling motor. However, you got some nice looking fish in the sink. Maybe they will help to take the bad taste of the trolling motor out of your mouth.

Before you take that Trolling Motor apart, check your Plug & Receptacle. Sometimes mine will just quit and so far its been the Plug-in.

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Also check fuses. Nice fish.

Very nice! Sorry for your trolling motor issues... hopefully it will be something simple to get worked out.
Got a couple of fatties in there too. Thanks for sharing.

Great looking fish hopefully it will be something simple.

That’s a good dinner right there. Sorry about the TM

2 nd the plug check.


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Not knowing what type of TM you have, but check to see if it will run in the continuous mode. If it does then it may be your switch on your foot pedal. Also check the wires connecting to the momentary/continuous switch.

the trolling motor on my boat has a overload switch that has to be Manually reset on the battery connection

Thanks for all the comments. I pulled out the multimeter and checked the plug. Getting power at the plug outlet. Then I pulled the foot pedal apart. Continuous switch is getting the right ohm reading so I know it’s good. The micro switch however gave me different ohm readings a few hours apart, so hopefully the problem lies there. Gonna go ahead and replace that and the rotary switch and hope that fixes the problem.

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Originally Posted by Fish on Line

the trolling motor on my boat has a overload switch that has to be Manually reset on the battery connection

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Thanks. I checked the 2 circuit breakers at the battery but they didn’t need to be reset. I guess they could be bad though. May change those if changing the switches doesn’t work.

Nice catch!
Sorry about the TM...
I have no advice bc you lost me with “back strap”.......


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Pretty fish


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Originally Posted by jfsiski

Thanks. I checked the 2 circuit breakers at the battery but they didn’t need to be reset. I guess they could be bad though. May change those if changing the switches doesn’t work.

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Test don't guess. Use your multi meter. Do some voltage drop test. You tube is your friend. Look up vd testing. Just make sure you test under load. HTH

Hopefully the trolling motor is a simple fix. But a “woods & waters”, venison & fish, meal sounds like a fine feast.

My switches came in yesterday and I changed them out last night. I am happy to say that I am back in business! Thanks for all the replies.

awesome

Good job.