Tennessee Boy

Are you sure the batteries are wired in parallel? There should be heavy gauge wire connecting the + sides of both batteries together and another identical wire connecting the - sides together. I would connect all of positive (red) load wires to the + side of one battery. The photo shows the red wires wired this way. All of the negative (black) load wires should be connected to the - side of the other battery. The photo shows that this is not how it's wired. If all of the load wires are connected to one battery and the other battery is wired in parallel it should work and doesn't necessarily explain your problems. However, if there is a bad connection in the parallel wires, you could end up running everything off one battery and not know it. This probably won't fix your issue. If it doesn't I would try using one battery as a dedicated cranking battery and the other as a dedicated electronics battery. If your batteries are good you should have plenty of battery power to run your electronics for many hours. Cranking a motor will always cause the voltage to drop. Some fish finders are more sensitive to this drop than others. I know many people run a setup like yours with two parallel batteries with good results. The advantage is your motor can charge the batteries running your electronics. I tried running everything off a single cranking battery for several years. I never depleted the battery but I had a gen 1 Solix that would give low voltage warnings every time I cranked the motor. I had a Gen 3 Solix that worked great. I ended up doing like @Jig Man and adding a lithium just for the electronics.

Okay so the Humminbird is connected to two parallel batteries that are wired in parallel that are also used to crank the outboard. Next question. Are you getting a low voltage warning when you crank the motor? What model Humminbird?

So your Humminbird is giving low voltage warnings while showing 12.4 to 12.6 volts? What voltage is it showing when you first turn it on? Is the Humminbird connected to one of the AGM31s or both in parallel?

I'm also very impressed with how smart Drew Gill is. He knows that FFS is his strength and he relies on it heavily. He caught fish with it on the Harris Chain when no one else could and was one position out from making the finals. His non FFS period performance is sub par compared to guys like Wheeler. He's averaging 5.49 lbs per period without FFS where Wheeler is averaging 10.09 lbs per period. The field is averaging 7.7 lbs per non FFS period.

What are his career entry fees?

Here are the latest number in the MLF Great Experiment. Stage 3 was a pretty heavy FFS tournament. The average period with FFS produced 64% more weight than the average period without FFS. This still lowered the season average down from 85% to 77%. Stage 3 Total Weight: 4139.8 lbs Average Weight per Angler Period With FFS: 11.70 lbs Average Weight per Angler Period Without FFS: 7.14 lbs Average FFS Weight Advantage Per Period: 4.56 lbs Percentage Increase in Catch Rate with FFS: 64% Season Total Total Weight: 13631.6 lbs Average Weight per Angler Period With FFS: 13.62 lbs Average Weight per Angler Period Without FFS: 7.70 lbs Average FFS Weight Advantage Per Period: 5.93 lbs Percentage Increase in Catch Rate with FFS: 77% The biggest surprise to me is the numbers continue to show no improvement in the size of fish caught during FFS periods. Season Total Average Fish Weight Total number of fish caught: 5343 Average Fish Size: 2.55 lbs Average Fish Size with FFS: 2.53 lbs Average Fish Size without FFS: 2.57 lbs Percentage Increase in Fish Size with FFS: -1.7% Just looking at the numbers for the final day in all three tournaments. FFS played a bigger role in the Championship rounds. Season Total Final Day Only Total Weight: 1183.2 lbs Average Weight per Angler Period With FFS: 22.30 lbs Average Weight per Angler Period Without FFS: 9.82 lbs Average FFS Weight Advantage Per Period: 12.48 lbs Percentage Increase in Catch Rate with FFS: 127% Next up is the Red Crest at Guntersville. I think they said that the Red Crest will be fished under the same rules that were used to qualify for it. So no FFS restrictions if that's the case.

Yeah I was setting here thinking it looked like ideal conditions but it was tough fishing. I don’t think I could make a cast under a dock with minutes left and $100K on the line. That was intense.

That was another good finish.

If the wife has a job making $100K a year and the husband is a professional fisherman and he’s good at it, that $75K-$80K of family income. Most families can live on that. 😂

@fish'n Jim Are you running the electronics on the same battery as the trolling motor?

Saying they require a specific wire gauge is absurd. Now saying they require a certain voltage is reasonable and the voltage drop in the wiring is affected by the length and gauge of the wire. If they told me they require 6 gauge wire I would ask them why the power cord they supply that runs to the unit is not 6 gauge. I've checked the specs on several Garmin units online and they all say the voltage requirements are 9 to 18 volts. There is no way your voltage is dropping below 9 volts due to your wire gauge.

Jacob Wall who is currently leading AOY finished dead last in this tournament. That has to hurt. ☹️

I wonder how important stick sensitivity is to him.

I think Wheeler is always fishing for a win and skipping the knockout hurts your chances of winning. There are many anglers that will not turn down guaranteed top ten money.

The scopers are killing it this morning but Sprague is holding his own with his crankbait. This is fun to watch.

I should have mentioned that Tennessee does not require a license for older seniors. That’s people over 100 years old. 😆

A Tennessee annual fishing license if you're over 65 is $4 or a permanent license for $49. I'm two years away from being eligible for this. Unfortunately they are changing it in July. The annual license for seniors is going up to $21. There is no permanent fishing license option. The only other option is a lifetime Sportsman's License that is $368 for age 65+.

If you’re a biochemist then I assume you’re familiar with the concept of statistical significance. Can you share your experimental process, the numbers you observed, and the level of statistical significance you observed? I think the vast majority of conclusions that most anglers reach on these matters are the results of misinterpretation of the natural randomness in fishing. I’m not saying some baits don’t work better than others, I’m just saying I’ve rarely seen statistically significant data that supports it.

The only question is can someone else take the lead before Palaniuk weights his fish.

I was very active in a great club in the 90s. When I moved away I never found what I thought was a comparable club. What made the club so good was the friendliness of the club. We competed hard on the water but helped each other get better off the water. Many clubs are full of guys that are just there to compete for money which leads to a lot of fighting over the rules and accusations of cheating. That's not a fun environment to be a part of in my opinion. For others it's exactly what they are looking for. It all depends on what type of club you want to be. I think making provisions to allow the nonboaters to fish shows that you are in a friendly club. I would welcome a third person in my boat even though my boat is not build for 3 people.

I thought he was going to have a heart attack. I know I would have. A 9 pounder on a crankbait with money on the line is dangerous stuff. 😆

You'll need to get with Glenn and arrange to pay the fine. 😆

If you get called for holding in football you get a penalty. You can't say you shouldn't be penalized because the hold didn't change the outcome of the play. The rules should be enforced, even the dumb ones. I don't like the rule about soliciting info because I think it penalizes the honest anglers and I think there are many that are less than honest. KVD was talking about rule violators on a podcast a while back. He talked about one MLF tournament where on the first day everyone in group A went one direction except for one angler that went the other direction. That guy did very well and the next day a bunch of the group B anglers went where he went. It suggested that they were watching the coverage from day one which was against the rules but there was no way to prove it.

I looked up the specs for that reel and it said the drag was 3.5KG which in Tennessee is equal to 7.7 pounds. 😊 It’s important to reiterate that you rarely need more than 4 pounds of drag for bass fishing. I don't think you will be flipping heavy cover with 65 lbs braid with that reel.

I have Solix 9s and a Solix 15 all on RAM mount at the console and up front. I used the largest ball (D size) and it works well. Just make sure the ball is mounted securely. I remove my units from the boat after each trip and the RAM mounts work well for this.