The Ville 3/26-3/27

Tried em out today and to my surprise the fishing was pretty good. I had a time controlling my boat when the gusts would sneak up on me, but the fish bit well all day. I found them most active between 12-18 feet down today in typical prespawn locales. Not sure the winning weight for the KCT tournament going on but I would say my best seven would have weighed 3.5 lbs. I did not catch many bigs yesterday but I’m glad ai stayed and muscled it out. I’m at the ramp now about to launch I’ll add some to this post later. 27 degrees right now gonna be a scorcher. Attachment 423000


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Way to hang in there! Looks good!


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Nice one

Thanks for sharing

Can’t catch them on the couch… yet here I am on the couch! Wind kept me off yesterday. Heckuva job!


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Very cold and windy, the wind definitely had me fishing were I could control the boat vs where I really wanted to be. Caught 30 or so and kept 6. The bite was tough and the fish were stacked up and holding very tight to cover. If you’re gonna call in and fish do it Wednesday, spring windy weather is dominating and we are at the mercy of it. Y’all be safe out there.


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It was a cold and windy one indeed. I too was surprised by the bite. Biggest was 13 1/4 with a couple more over 12. I was catching most of mine 8-12’ deep in 20-25’ of water. Glad I got out. Just put on a new Terrova and found out I have some electrical issues. Got to get that straightened out before they really turn on.

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It was a cold and windy one indeed. I too was surprised by the bite. Biggest was 13 1/4 with a couple more over 12. I was catching most of mine 8-12’ deep in 20-25’ of water. Glad I got out. Just put on a new Terrova and found out I have some electrical issues. Got to get that straightened out before they really turn on.

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What kind of electrical issues?


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Admittedly I am not an electrician. I had a 24 volt Motor Guide before, so I basically hooked up the Terrova the same way, except I put a 60 amp breaker on the hot side as recommended. What is going on is that when I get to 4 power on speed, my graph goes off and when I get to 8 power, the trolling motor quits. Both will return to normal operation at lower speeds. I think I know the problem with the trolling motor.

I have a 24 volt 40 amp breaker on the negative side. I believe that is kicking on the higher speeds once the amperage gets over 40. You might ask, why I have that there. Well, it never dawned on me that it would cause a problem but I had two of these on my pervious wiring to accommodate to floor foot power buttons that ran through the breakers. Rather than butt splice the new trolling motor negative side directly to the battery, I just ran it through the two posts on the breaker. I think I just need to remove it.

As for the graph, it was working fine wired through a step down transformer taking 24 volts to 12, which is required for this graph. It has a 5 amp inline fuse, which hasn't blown. I've read and been told that it would be best to hook it to my starting battery, so I may just do that.

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All of your problems will be solved by removing the transformer, and another 49 amp breaker on the neutral side, and either wiring your graph off of the starting battery or a separate stand alone. I suspect What is happening is you are getting a voltage drop when you are getting into high gear on your terrova and that will most def shut your graph down. That’s why you never want your electronics on the same batteries as your trolling motor. What size wire did you run for your terrova? Length of run? If you are over 15 feet on a 24v model most likely you need 6awg wire. If you are running 8 awg you may indeed be undersized.
Start with the things you know are wrong then circle back we will get her goin.


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Thanks BCO. I failed to mention that I was also worried about the gauge of the conductor from the battery. I’m not sure what it is (maybe 10) but the Terrova calls for 8. I was going to check that. My boat is a 2002 center consol so I’m not sure how easy it’s going to be to run new wire from the front of the boat back to the consol where the batteries are. Not a lot of give on the wires that I’ve been able to determine. We actually met on the water on Taylorsville last year. Appreciate the advice.

I had to clean up 15 years of wiring in my boat when I bought it and converted from a 24v system to a 36v Terrova. A 25’ electrician’s fish tape will be your best friend in getting from the battery compartment to the bow and everywhere in between.

You guys are on the right track, I bet your graph issue is 100% related to sharing power from your TM and shutting off when it senses the voltage drop. You might already have power at the bow to tap into from the cranking battery, but the ideal way would be to run a new pos/neg all the way to your cranking battery and fuse the pos side.

Your Terrova is pulling more than 40 amps at higher speeds (the transformer and graph is adding to the draw) and is tripping the smaller of the two breakers on the negative lead, but less than the 60 amps protected on the positive lead. I would remove the 40 amp breaker on the negative side first, eliminate the transformer that is robbing power from your TM system and test it through all speeds before throwing more money at it. If it checks out, measure for new TM wires and put them in with that fish tape.

Thanks Dutch. I’m also running my heading sensor through the transformer. The installation instructions say not to running it through a battery on an alternator (I.e. cranking battery) but have it’s on separate 12 volt source. Therefore I ran it through the transformer. I think I’m going to have to provide a battery in the bow for the puck and the fish finder. Thoughts?

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Thanks Dutch. I’m also running my heading sensor through the transformer. The installation instructions say not to running it through a battery on an alternator (I.e. cranking battery) but have it’s on separate 12 volt source. Therefore I ran it through the transformer. I think I’m going to have to provide a battery in the bow for the puck and the fish finder. Thoughts?

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You will not regret using that rogue storage bin for a dedicated electronics battery. I installed a fuse block for mine, but each unit has its own circuit, very handy when tracing a short or some other issue. Plus who likes a big jumble of wires in their battery compartment.
2 helix 10’s
1 Garmin 1222 GPSMAP
1 LVS32 + BlackBox
1 Mega 360 transducer
1 minn Kota puck
1 humminbird puck
Interior cube lights
USB port for charging
12v auxiliary outlet
That’s a large load to a dedicated starting battery, on long days I would sometimes have to jump the starting battery, some days it wasn’t enough so I went ahead did it. I got the connectors that heat them and they have a little solder inside of the heat shrink, they are on Amazon and it’s PERMANENT.
*note that I do run into moisture issues in the space, never really an issue before but your connections will not last long in a corrosive environment. I’m in the process of rigging up a small fan to keep air moving.


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Thanks guys. Took your advice, got her rewired and hope to be out Sunday. Good luck to all.

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Thanks guys. Took your advice, got her rewired and hope to be out Sunday. Good luck to all.

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Fingers crossed for you buddy. Let us know how everything works on Sunday. This is one of the few remaining places in the world where people still help other folks out doing what we love to do and is why I keep coming back year after year.

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Thanks Dutch. I’m also running my heading sensor through the transformer. The installation instructions say not to running it through a battery on an alternator (I.e. cranking battery) but have it’s on separate 12 volt source. Therefore I ran it through the transformer. I think I’m going to have to provide a battery in the bow for the puck and the fish finder. Thoughts?

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I’ve had my Terrova heading sensor wired to the bus bar in my bow access panel powered by my cranking battery for three years or so with no problems whatsoever. I don’t use the Spot Lock 5’ jog function very often the way I fish but when I do, it works like it is supposed to. The only thing on my TM circuit is my trolling motor and a Blue Sea 60 amp switchable breaker that I use as a hard disconnect for the power to the TM before I charge the TM batteries to avoid frying the control board on the Terrova.

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Well fellas, still having problems. Trolling motor still cutting out at higher speeds. Has to be the wire gauge. That’s where I’m going next. Going to try and pull 8 gauge through but I may have to put batteries up front. Hate to take up what little storage space I have in this center console doing that but…

Meanwhile, the fishing was slow… for me. Spiderrigged and really could never establish a consistent pattern depth wise.
Really lite bite. Mt. Washington Fire Dept had a tourney. Looked like 8+ pounds won it. Water still around 51 degrees and still got color.