You have trolling motors with GPS's that you can set to follow a path and you have depth finders with GPS's that allow you to save waypoints, it seems like it wouldn't be that hard to get them to communicate so that you could pick out a waypoint, punch it in, and the trolling motor would take you there.
Are there any systems/manufacturers where the trolling motor and depth finder communicate with each other??
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checked the webcams in the area.........
big bog.....up on red......looks like ice yet......but how long.
Geigers on bowstring has open water.
marrows on cutfoot is all but ope nwater.......very little ice floating.
lakewood on sand lake has ice in front of there place but heard a bunch of open water on other parts of the lake
it'll be interesting to watch the webcams today once that wind gets to crankin what it does to the ice. if any lake has open water and the wind catches it i'd assume its gonna pile up real fast!
The DNR uses the 90% rule. Declare ice out when the lake is 90% ice free. The Freshwater Society uses a different rule.
"Ice-out is observed when a boat is able to safely navigate from any shore to any other shore, through any channel, and around any island without being stopped by hard ice."
The ice in Smith's Bay yesterday afternoon must not have been "hard". I didn't go up to it to check. It stretched from Big Island to Brackett's Point. Saw a fishing boat almost enter it up on plane. This ice was in Brown's Bay on Monday and blew in to Smith's with the NE wind.
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You have trolling motors with GPS's that you can set to follow a path and you have depth finders with GPS's that allow you to save waypoints, it seems like it wouldn't be that hard to get them to communicate so that you could pick out a waypoint, punch it in, and the trolling motor would take you there.
Are there any systems/manufacturers where the trolling motor and depth finder communicate with each other??
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