Trolling Motor Selection

bgreen1347 · Post by **bgreen1347** » Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:10 pm

I've been working on a Jon boat to Bass boat project for a little while, and I realize it's a small boat, but for the time being, I'd prefer to Overpower it rather than Underpower it while selecting a trolling motor.

I've grown comfortable using Minn Kota motors because most of my fishing friends do, but I'm open to suggestion. My buddy and I recently noticed some performance issues when he attempted to use an HDS 5 with his MK Power Drive V2. The transducer mount and the movement of the shaft didn't cooperate, and getting an image was nearly impossible. My friend suggested that maybe it would work better with a cable steer motor.

I intend to put an Elite 4-DSI on my boat eventually. Can anyone throw me an opinion on whether I would see better imaging results with a cable steer MK Edge or Maxxum or with a Power Drive or Power Drive V2? I'm still learning a lot of this stuff, so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

scottsweet · Post by **scottsweet** » Thu Sep 12, 2013 7:27 am

Check out this video from Doug on mounting the transducer cable in to the power driven trolling motors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6jMpWt545Q

You do not have the side imaging transducer, but the installation is the basically the same. I am almost sure the Powerdrive trolling motor has the groove in the shaft like the Terrova.

The other option is to get the tm with the US2 transducer.