All Crappie Fishermen - Equipment Alert - By Bernard Williams

I’ve been having trouble with my Terrova getting weak after a few hours of trolling, my thinking was the
motor was about 6 or 7 years old and maybe the brushes were getting old and worn out. I called my
repair man and asked a few questions, he said that when he replaced the shaft and bottom casing he
replaced the old brushes and the armature was in great shape.


When I finish fishing I would check my batteries and they would show around 80% or better, so batteries
were not the issue. I then check the cables from the batteries to the front for continuity, no voltage
drop. What a puzzle.


To make a long story short, my partner, Jake Taylor advised that one of his buddies had issues with line
wrapped around the prop. Surely that couldn’t be the problem. Well what the heck, I removed the prop
and low and behold, there was enough line around the shaft to fill a reel.


So, here’s a friendly warning to all fishermen, pull your prop off and check for line every so often. Some
lazy fishermen discard their line in the lake when they get rid of it.


I also replaced the seal around the shaft just in case it was worn. Thank God it wasn’t braided, that
would’ve been big-time problems. It took about 2 minutes to remove the nut and pull the prop, time
well spent. It’s working like a new trolling motor now. Bernard