Lucas

If you’ve been fishing many lakes you’ve probably witnessed it: some poor soul purchases an “all bells and whistles” boat with a wide hull and … Read more

The waves tell you more about a boat’s weight than a scale does. How close they come to edge of the deck means it’s riding … Read more

“Pointing the drive up alters where bottom of the hull contacts the water. Trimming up raise the bow, clears your sightlines and makes the ride … Read more

Fishing boats is loaded with an added battery, an ice-filled cooler, and people in the back. Throttle comes open wide and you expect to fly. … Read more

So now it’s on, you mount the transducer. Turn on the sonar. You stare at a screen that says you are sitting on forty feet … Read more

It’s five thousand revolutions per minute as seen by your tachometer and you are pulling the throttle open, yet the boat barely gets up on … Read more

There’s a big white streak on your sonar screen. Victory! Well, maybe not. What was that? Why do you have any doubts? Is that a … Read more

The sonar isn’t dialed into the sound physics and now there’s nothing but empty water on the screen while the fish sits on your hook. … Read more

Grid searching is one way to cover water in a more methodical fashion while keeping yourself out of empty water. Instead of just making long … Read more

With a focused mindset, you begin making a trolling pass by ticking off the seconds between casts and noting it on your GPS. As you … Read more

It’s a gusty day when you cleat off at marina slip with a heavy swell running and catch a gust of wind on your hull. … Read more