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It is a fiberglass hull. I cleaned the zincs before we went out today and it helped a little we went from .17 to .22 volts now. Im sure we are still doing something fundamentally wrong we keep trolling through schools of fish throwing all we have at them but not bites. Today we were at San...

Thanks for the info. We may have to take you up on your offer next time we come down. Just got in from a day at Berryessa. Usually we catch at least a few trout but today not a thing. We have checked our voltages and are running about .17 for whatever that is worth.

4.5" chartreuse vance dodger, 5.5" Sceps watermellon, 6" Sceps charteuse/white, 4.5" unkown copper orange and green and a 9" double bb flasher. Leader length on the hoochies range from 8" to 14". Again thanks for all the help.

Typically we have been going about 1.5 but not much slower than that so that gives us something else to try out there. Next time out will be back at berry since thats the close to home lake for us.

Thanks just never used a downrigger before and we noticed the humming the first time out just didnt think to ask til now and didnt know if it was normal or just us being special.

We tried several lines from where the river enters the main reservoir to the dam all along the dam and spillway area and then up and down past the outlet where all the other trollers were. Speed we tried everything from .8 to 2.2 mph. We used different colored dodgers with hoochies in pink...

Just curious since we are still new to this but our downriggers (scotty 1050's) make quite the resonating hum vibration when down at depth. Is this normal?

Just got back from spending all day sat and sun at Pardee. Sad to say we caught nothing at all. But we havnt caught a koke yet anywhere so it may just be us. We did see plenty of fish on the finder between 30-40 ft and heard lots of people were hitting there limits early. We watched them on...

I havnt measured just how deep it is yet. I have thought about shimming it but it gets tight with the alpha one outdrive trim actuators. I will try to get some pics and post them for you all to see.

Thanks for the tips all. I will try to move the batteries first since that will be the cheapest and easiest solution. As for the hydrafoil I dont think I can mount one on my outdrive since the trolling motor is already mounted there. Thats why I was thinking about the smart tabs.

Hey all again, After lots of deliberation we decided to go with a Minn Kota EM101 for our trolling needs instead of idling with drift socks. I have to say we are thrilled at the performance of the Minn Kota so far for trolling. On the down side our first time out with it and the stern wont...

Thanks again to everyone it has helped us alot in our choices. The fix I did to the bypass check valves has helped alot so far the boat idles just fine now. I do plane on replacing the impeller soon as well. As for the trolling we have bit the bullet and decided to go with a Minn Kota...

I am thinking about buying a pair of Scotty 1050 downriggers for my 21' runabout along with their 1027 rail mounts. I know opinions vary but would like to know if anyone has experiance with these downriggers and what you all think? We are just starting out trying to troll and these would be...

Thanks for the ideas all. I will have to do some research on replacing the impeller I am pretty mechanically inclined and would like to do it myself I have just never worked on a boat before. It is a Mercruiser Alpha 1. As far as I can tell the impeller has not been replaced in many years...

I saw a post on another forum about the check balls on top of the manifold. So I pulled the hoses off cleaned them up a bit and put more tension on the springs that hold them closed at idle. It seems to have worked we went out today and had no problem idling even if we were still going to fast...

Thanks for the reply that is kinda what I was thinking. I will look more into why the motor is doing what it is doing.

Hi all, I have a 21' Sea Ray Sorrento with I/O its our family fun toy. My wife and I love to fish and are trying to get into trolling with it. We learned two problems pretty fast with it. 1 even at idle it goes way to fast. 2 At idle for any real lenght of time (10 minutes or more) the temp...

Hi all, My name is Tim and my wife and I have just started fishing again (first time since either of us were kids). I am in the Air Force stationed at Travis AFB CA and recently we picked up a used runabout for our family of five to enjoy on Lake Berryessa. The kids love the boat while my wife...