Please school me

[silverside]

I ordered a new boat and it will have a gps anchoring tm ( think spotlock).
Never had that luxury before. Any tips you've learned along the way that you would share?

Sent from my SM-S711U using Crappie.com Fishing mobile app

[parratt1]

Be at a standstill, or close to it when you hit spot lock. If you are traveling forward when you hit it, the motor will then have to return to the spot where you hit lock.

Sent from my SM-S908U using Tapatalk

[parratt1]

Also, if you point yourself into the wind then hit lock, you'll save yourself a ton of headaches and spooked fish

Sent from my SM-S908U using Tapatalk

[mozingo1952]

What brand TM is it ? What brand fish finders will you run?
Lowrance interfaces with motorguide and lowrance , Humminbird with humminbird and garmin with garmin.

once you have waypoints entered on your fish finder, you can go to that point with your fish finder, Just get close and tell the FF to navigate to the point,
the trolling motor will take you there and keep you in position,

it is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

How much you use it depends on your fishing style, more than 90% of my fishing is over brushpiles,
So I use mine all the time

Your mileage may vay
MO

[silverside]

Motorguide tm and garmin and lowrance electronics

Sent from my SM-S711U using Crappie.com Fishing mobile app

[zekepa]

Motorguide tm and garmin and lowrance electronics

Sent from my SM-S711U using Crappie.com Fishing mobile app

I had a Motorguide Xi5 on my last boat, that worked with the Lowrance fish finder. I mostly used the remote to control the trolling motor. The spotlock for the motor worked well, the GPS was built into the head of the motor. I actually think the Motorguide kept me pretty close to where I set it. I seem to do more drifitng around with my Garmin force now.

To be able to control the Xi5 with the fishfinder I had to set up a NEMA 2000 network between the trolling motor and fishfinder. I don't know if that is still true with the newer graphs or not.

I have all Garmin on this boat. I assume I could control the Force trolling motor with the Garmin Fishfinder, I haven't tried I just use the remote. I keep the foot pedal in the boat in case I need it but I've never used it.

[DockShootinJack]

Set it correctly. Set the scale to the boat if available ( I have experience with Minkota) overhead objects can block the signal and cause it to surge ahead trying to find its position. Being a dock shooter I get close to things that can block its view of the satellites. All that said it is an awesome piece of gear. I can sit in the back of the boat and pull planer boards. I can fish the side of the dock that the wind is blowing into by setting the spot lock and shooting the dock off the back of the boat. Couldn't do that with a foot control

[silverside]

Set it correctly. Set the scale to the boat if available

No mention of this in the manual. What do you mean regarding this?

[Ketchn]

No mention of this in the manual. What do you mean regarding this?

this part is critical unless you like the ole whoops I took a swim because the dang thing went bananas on me when I leaned left it went right at 20 mph .....

[Tracker123]

this part is critical unless you like the ole whoops I took a swim because the dang thing went bananas on me when I leaned left it went right at 20 mph .....

Also to note: Do not push the rabbit button standing up in the bow.