Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 20:36:37 -0500, "Ray Bates"
wrote:

I'm in process of rigging a new fishing boat (18', wgt approx 1400 lbs incl.
boat, motor gas and equipment) and want to put a bow-mounted trolling motor
on it. Any recommendations? Are the ones which are wireless controlled a
good buy? Minn-kota vs Motor Guide? 12v vs. 24v (I'm a casual fisherman
not out there everyday).

I've owned Minn-Kota transom mounted motors before and liked them, but have
no experience with bow-mounted motors.

Anything I should be particularly cautious of?

Yes - don't buy a Motor Guide - they are crap and Mercury's warranty
on them suck. The are horribly engineered and prone to do interesting
things like short out at the switch.

Did I mention that Mercury's warranty on them sucks?

Funny that. You don't hear people that own Motor Guides complain about
them much, but I've seen several of them go bad for various reasons. My
MinnKota just keeps going and going.