Today we're going to share a quick tip that'll help you be more efficient when you're trolling new water. It'll help you get dialed in by finding the fish and figuring out patterns. My main challenge on the lake we ended up on was to find the right trolling speed for small mouth.
So now I'm going to turn it over to Jeff little from the The Little Stuff YouTube channel.
Jeff is going to go through his setup and show you how he utilizes his Torqeedo to troll, especially when he's fishing new water.
Jeff Helps us Find the Right Trolling Speed for Fishing
Every Torqeedo system has a GPS unit. In this case, the Ultralight's GPS unit is in the battery. It tells you your speed over land, but its real purpose is calculating how much range you have left.
For instance, if you need to go 8.4 miles and you typically mash it to cover a lot of water quickly, you know you'll have plenty of juice if it says you have 14.6 miles of range remaining.
Finding the Right Trolling Speed
So in this example, we're going 2.2 miles per hour, we have 63 miles of range remaining, and the battery is 94 percent charged.
This is actually faster than I want to go for trolling. So I'll back this down to about seven watts. This will stabilize my speed somewhere around the 1.3 mile per hour range. I've found that this is a good trolling speed for smallies in this particular lake. After a few minutes at this speed, Jameson hooked up.
Hopefully this tip will give you a better overall experience and help you catch more fish. I think it'll be particularly useful when you're fishing new water and want to do some trolling. I have another tip for the Torqeedo Ultralite here: Electric Kayak Motor Tips: Cleaning Weeds from Electric Boat Motor.
Kayak: Jackson Kayak Knarr
Paddles: Bending Branches Angler Pro Versa-Lok
Rods: 7’ Medium Rainshadow Judge, 7’ MH Rainshadow Judge
Reels and line combos:
– Shimano Vanford 3000 reel spooled with 20lb Seaguar Smackdown in Flash Green and a 12lb Seaguar Gold Label Fluorocarbon leader
– Shimano Chronarch 150 HG spooled with 30lb Seaguar Smackdown in Flash Green and a 20lb Seaguar Gold Label Fluorocarbon Leader
Bait rigs:
– 5” green pumpkin and purple flake Yamamoto Senko rigged wacky
– 1/2 oz Z-Man Jackhammer chatterbait in bruised green pumpkin tipped with a black and blue laminate Razor Shadz
