Dustin, that's a pretty nice boat. Them Boston Whalers are pretty much the gold standard in workhorse boats.
My wife and I went to get a new trolling motor for our boat today. The place we went to had a MinnKota 50 PowerDrive V2 with AutoPilot. But it was 12 volt and I want a 24 volt one because the 12 volt one draws 50 amps at full power. So we didn't get that.
They had some really nice Wise® Pro-series swivel seats on sale. They only had two in stock and we needed three. So we took the two they had and they ordered us one more. They're really nice comfortable seats:
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I want to upgrade the helm SONAR too. We got a Eagle Cuda 242 on the bow. And we got a Eagle StrataView 128 at the helm.
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The StrataView 128 is a better SONAR because it's more sensitive. But I like the Cuda 242 because it's got water temp display and will show the thermocline. It also displays system operating voltage of the boat's electrical system so you can keep an eye on it when running high draw units like electric trolling motors along with night time navigation and deck lighting in the boat.
But I'd like to upgrade the helm SONAR with one of them Humminbird LakeMaster ones that got GPS, 360° imaging, and you can load all the inland lake cartography in them on mini-SD cards:
There's a lot of times we'll find mid-summer walleyes hanging off the edge of dropoffs in 20-25 feet of water and they'll bite if you entice them enough. Depending on the weather and water temp sometimes they don't even move up on to the flats, or in the shallows, to feed at night because they're kind of dormant at that time of the year. It's all about presentation and knowing where the fish are to catch mid-summer walleyes on inland lakes when the surface temp is up to 75+ degrees. We usually give up and go to Lake Superior at that time of the year. Lake Superior rarely gets much above 45 degrees and you can find mid-summer walleyes on Superior at only 8-10 feet and catch them trolling with a spoon.
If we had one of these high-precision GPS/SONAR units so I could precisely position the boat over where I KNOW them fish are at - then it's all presentation and if you're good you can catch mid-summer walleyes on our inland lakes. Going to Canada isn't even a challenge because walleyes up there are like crappies - they'll bite on anything. It takes a real fisherman to catch 'em with the water temp pushing 80 degrees in mid-summer around here on our shallow lakes.
My wife and I LOVE to fish walleyes. Some days we'll catch 15-20 of 'em and keep a couple nice 19-22" fish for supper.
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Some days we'll work the good spots for hours and never get a bite because we're either 20-30 feet off where the boat should be for proper presentation, or there's no fish there at all because some other conditions changed that we can't see down there. Chasing "clouds" of baitfish on the SONAR don't work in mid-summer because the walleyes could give a crap less about chasing baitfish unless one swims right in front of their nose with a sign on it that says "eat me"
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Chris