Discovered something: why take along a trolling motor & battery on a small lake?
The last few times I've rowed my 10' boat to conserve battery power and found that I can move that boat at a #3 trolling motor speed with little effort and loaded with trolling motor and battery on board to boot!
Since I needed to fish two lakes today and the wind was under 10 MPH, I figured, why bother hauling around the battery and trolling motor? As far as the fish finder, I really didn't need itfor depth having fished these waters a dozen times. If I need to bring it next time, I'll use a small motor cycle battery.
When the wind came up, I just lowered the 10lb anchor to hold position.
Between the two waters, I caught around 100 fish of mixed species and including some nice crappie and perch and covered a lot of territory when needed. The last lake I anchored in two spots for 3 hours combined and caught fish after fish. So much for needing to take a trolling motor, battery and sonar!
(See my post today which lures did great)