[Boyce]

You had a great two days fishing. And you saw a tripletail! That’s awesome! First TT report this year if I’m not mistaken.

[Boyce]

Yes indeed! Great trip!

[Boyce]

Great trip!

[Boyce]

Tough day— I know them all too well. A guide I know in that area only caught redfish and black drum today, so maybe it was just tough on everyone. I know the Barataria Basin won’t be acting funny for long, I’m sure it’s about to be hammer time. Great report!

[Boyce]

Another cool thing about the cranking battery: it has a power reserve mode. Meaning it will not allow itself to get below a certain percentage to make sure it has enough juice to start the motor. Though I doubt I would ever run it down that low.

[Boyce]

From my research, that issue was prevalent with the old Lithium Batteries. Lithium Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4) apparently has a different chemistry and the BMS’s are more advanced now, so apparently that issue doesn’t really exist now.

I was on the fence about getting them for a while for that exact reason.

I want to say 2 stroke outboards may still have some issue though.

Venice will be the true test for my trolling motor battery. I can’t wait to see how it does there.

[Boyce]

I got one made by the same company who makes the batteries. https://www.litime.com/

[Boyce]

Yeah me too, and I will continue to do so. I need backup plans to my backup plan.

[Boyce]

[Boyce]

With his FFS, he could see all of this by just turning the TM head. For someone without it like all of us, we would have to troll around and look at downscan to find them again, which increases the chances of spooking them.

[Boyce]

They weren’t circling it while I was watching him. They were set up on a corner of the rig and would move to the opposite corner, then they would move off the rig about 100 yards. Basically he was set up at a 45 degree angle on the corner of a rig and they would move from his left, to his center, to his right.

[Boyce]

WBJ is good for a limit every trip. If there was a betting line in Vegas on WBJ getting a limit, I’m sending the house.

[Boyce]

Ahhhh that makes sense

[Boyce]

I agree with that, it would be awesome to just use it to watch how the fish behave and move underwater.

He absolutely was on them and I wasn’t. I didn’t want to get up on his bite, so I just fished around him. But with the FFS, he was able to stay on them much more easily. Every time they moved, he moved with them.

[Boyce]

I genuinely do not know, so can you explain how this set up would help out with hook sets during a finicky bite?