07-18-2005, 02:26 AM
Fishhound,thanks for sharing your wisdom and experience about a gas motor on a toon!!
Last Friday , I went up to Current Creek and tried a little Yamaha 2.5 (4-stroke).At idle I was doing 1.8 (gps)and with my feet in the water I was down to 1.1,but I didn't like the vibration.
Sense I had the motor on the toon and had most of the day to play around I cranked it up to 4mph and gave my fish finder a workout. I mapped out the whole Lake, I found a lot of structure and fish that I wouldn't have had the range with my electric.
Now that I have tried the gas motor, I'll go back to hauling around that heavy battery [
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I can see two reasons to use a gas motor. If your fishing a new Lake and want to find a lot of the structure to fish later or if where you want to fish is a long distance from your launch point.
BTW,my toon was designed for using a gas motor.
Rodger
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Last Friday , I went up to Current Creek and tried a little Yamaha 2.5 (4-stroke).At idle I was doing 1.8 (gps)and with my feet in the water I was down to 1.1,but I didn't like the vibration.
Sense I had the motor on the toon and had most of the day to play around I cranked it up to 4mph and gave my fish finder a workout. I mapped out the whole Lake, I found a lot of structure and fish that I wouldn't have had the range with my electric.
Now that I have tried the gas motor, I'll go back to hauling around that heavy battery [
]I can see two reasons to use a gas motor. If your fishing a new Lake and want to find a lot of the structure to fish later or if where you want to fish is a long distance from your launch point.
BTW,my toon was designed for using a gas motor.
Rodger
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