HenryPF

Yeah, I don't it is going to work as you think it would. Water, direct sunlight and battery life. The amount of light that comes in from your peripheral vision is not as immersive as goggles and is definitely not desirable for any fishing glasses. I wear wraparound style glasses for a reason. Polarization is going to be an issue. It sounds cool though.

Are you neurotic like me and don't like a possibility of anything ruining your day out? Depending on your trolling motor, a 3 x 50ah setup with a bad battery will not effect your trolling motor, it will compensate and run off of 24. Electronics battery - sure 50ah will work just fine, but do you want to really worry about if you have enough juice at the end of the day cause you didn't want to spend extra $$$ for a bluetooth LiPO that tells you percentages? Worried about being stranded running off your starting battery? $100 jump pack will give you piece of mind. Or you can go crazy like I did and run 3 x 100ah for the trolling, 2 x 100ah for the electronics, 1 x 100ah for the livewell/guages/bilge pump and 1 x group 27agm for the starting battery. My fishing days run anywhere between 5-14 hours on the water per day. For my electronics, I run 2 livescopes and 5 finders all the time - i mirror the livescopes to the dash so the guy in back is not fishing blind either.

I hate fishing in the wind. I won't go. 10mph - comfortable 15mph - whitecaps, sure my boat is high and dry, but my body can't take the pounding at speed 20mph - they kick everyone off the water and close the boat launch I fish cooling lakes, they average anywhere from 60-80ft above the surrounding areas, so wind speed doubles.

Want to see what you AH drain with all your electronics without spending a fortune? Buy a adapter for one of your LiPO powertool batteries like so: Milwaukee Battery Adapter Run all your stuff of that battery/adapter and see how long it lasts without worrying about if you will be stranded when your starting battery is drained. You most likely have multiple powertool batteries, don't have to worry about buying a charger for them either. Go from there.

So on research for this charger issue I spent some time looking it up - some (guessing here) lithium batteries require 14.6volts to charge the battery to 100%. It seems some chargers only output 14.2v like the Minn Kota Precision chargers (their top of the line ones) I would follow mcipinkie advise and contact Andy Council at Drewcraft. I did order a $159 lipo i posted on this forum to screw with and I have a pure lithium only charger and a MK210D laying around and to play with to see the charging rates, etc.

From Minn Kota themselves - In cases where a Lithium battery type is not available, manufacturers may recommend using the AGM setting. The manufacturer of his battery charger will say it will work, how is this being debated?.

Minn Kota says otherwise https://minnkota-help.johnsonoutdoors.com/hc/en-us/articles/4413522095895-Charging-Lithium-Batteries#ChargerCompatibility 12V lithium-based (LiFePO4) batteries can be charged with Minn Kota Digital, PC or PCL chargers. Unless his charger is ancient, the only portable charger on Minn Kota's site is digital.

Welp problem solved if you bought a kraken! No stupid cable mounting baloney where you have a coiled wire running down do the transducer on the motor.

Before you get all creative, like 2 100ah Mini LiPos is like $500 and weigh 20lbs each. Are you really using that trolling motor you are depleting the batteries so much? The quiet generator under load at 25ft distance is around 60db but at $750 + that is quite a difference in pricing. If you got the room in the boat - why not just install a 2nd set of LiPos with a cutover switch and you can get a charger that doesn't have to be onboard to charge em at home?

TnRiver has a good answer. No noise, no fumes, no gas, no nothing? Weighs about the same as the generator (depending on the size you get?) Buy a portable power station - which is just another lithium battery bank that you plug your onboard boat charger into. Math time: if you have a 10x3 charger, they usually pull about 150wh per bank. Take the capacity of the power station - let's say 2000watts and divide by wh and you get how many hours your charger will work before the power station runs to zero. Fishing in the morning? Pull the station outta the boat and re-charge at camp. Something like this:

Well for motorized, find a used minn kota powerdrive or XI3 and chop off the lower unit and throw the lvs32 or 34 on the end of it. You will still have the issue of a cable not being tucked on the shaft for a clean look unless you are super handy and can run the transducer cable in the shaft. Or find a used minn kota edge or similar and do the same but scissor mount and foot pedal.

I don't have hawks, eagles, owls or coyotes in my area, but I got this so those pesky kids don't touch my dogs. LOL - I just googled "coyote vest" as I have seen these before.

5 inches one day, 3 the other. I have a small 2 car driveway but I absolutely hate shoveling the grass. Tracks behind the fence are from the family ice fishing this morning.

I have 3 livescopes - 2 on the boat for forward/perspective and 1 for shore fishing. I can find the fish and not waste time looking. That being said, my favorite fishing is surface/jungle/frogging and absolute lazy fishing where I remove the front seat post, put the seat to the deck, use the remote for trolling motor and kick my feet up on the gunwhale where no electronics are used at all. I look like an idiot fishing this way but don't care. Electronics are good and all, but nothing beats a lazy day soaking bait. I usually stop using electronics around July til the rest of the year. I catch more fish with 2 rods with lindy rigs, a stabber and a turkey hunting chair on shore. Less work, more fun. Livescope for shore is taken sometimes so I can see fish swimming by which is better that staring at my phone or worse falling asleep and my poles gone.

Flush mounting is fine - but since I live in the midwest like yourself, I don't want my expensive finders sitting out in sub zero weather all winter - even the garage gets down to zero where I am at. Plus I really like my stuff to stay mine

Pretty sure all the big manufacturers have screens that easily detach from their cradle. Those locking thumbscrews just look like they give a thief more of a reason to damage your stuff. I pop out all finders of the boat every trip - plus I have a cradle/battery inside the house so I can do updates during the winter, play with it, change settings etc. Like so for the console - bow is the same. Even the Garmin Force is removable as it is on a MKA-42 mount, again so I can update it during the winter.

It is called redundancy. Would you like 1 giant screen with everything on it that fails and you see nothing, or 2 smaller screens where 1 screen fails and other the works? There is always a single point of failure but these can be highly mitigated but lets not get too crazy, do you need two batteries, two separate wiring harnesses going to two batteries?

Heavy and worth it for bulk spools if you have zero engineering skills. https://www.pennfishing.com/hd-line-winder-1454395 For my 3000-2000 series spinning reels. https://sportsmaninnovations.com/products/fishon-spooler-pro I use the fishon one always - it holds bulk spools and line tension is not a problem for my baitcasters also (hand reel). I use backing line for every spool so I don't waste line and I do not crank forever hand reeling.

Legal here in IL - I have so much fun fishing and being relaxed while doing it, I see no need for it. Plus the cost is prohibitive. For those that do partake, I do not care if you blaze. Do not burn a hole in my boat carpet and good luck with that reaction time setting the hook! Big believer for weed for medical purposes, all about people not being in pain.

Winco Cutting Board, 12 by 18 by 1-Inch, White For the transducer, you cut this thing into 4 x 9 inch pieces, drill two holes in them, choose to glue or not (I didn't) and silicon the holes along with the SS sheet metal screws and get 6 of these things for the exact same price. If you drill too many holes mounting your transducer in this thing, just swap out for another one and repeat. I went fancy and bought black and have like 5 left still... Console mount - RAM swing arm mount like others said (pictured exactly as shown in the replies). This type (2.5 inch ball) tends to fall down in the slightest rough water and your Echomap already comes with a cradle that allows you to remove the finder and leave the wiring installed.

Dropped my phone in like 3ft of murky water - iphone XR. Jumped in the water, submerged my head in there and had my buddy call my phone so i could hear where it was underwater. Use it to this day. No issues.

I have to replace my agms in 2-5 years. Ill go lithium trolling/electornics with an AGM for starting. But until someone absolutely proves to me that Dakota, Battleborn, Ionic batteries are SO much better than the cheapo Amazon ones, I am going that route. The argument of "Customer Service" is pointless. Garmin and PowerPole have great customer service, but unless you need it, the point is moot. Your Ionic or whoever battery goes out during a tournament? You sure ain't getting one that day or the next. The price of the Top Tier batteries are twice as expensive as anything else out there. I could replace my brand new lithiums in 5 years, but another set, and still come out ahead due to their pricing and 10 year warranty. Bluetooth? Yeah it sounds nice but I can buy a $30 Wyze Cam with a 12v to USB converter and point it at my battery chargers. I don't the worth of $75+ per battery if I want to see it on the phone.

Blur? No way! I'm actually in walking to my old chevy K5 blazer when the first time googly maps car was passing - they blur you out mostly. Now I am actually in my company parking lot as the car passed by smoking a cigarette the ONE time I had one in like 15 years. Figures.

If you want your bunks on the trailer or lift to last forever, just go out and buy composite decking material. It is super slick (great for crap boat launches) they sell it everywhere and its easy to handle. Your lift/trailer will fall apart before this stuff does.