I agree. A few years ago I got a Hummer Ice 55. I went up to Red lake for a 3 day 2 night trip. I brought my FL-18 along as a back up. When I was fishing I said, what the heck and ran one in each hole started at the same time with both batteries charged to full at the start of the trip. The Bird-55 died in a day and a half and the FL-18 ran until I shut it off to leave on the 3rd day. I sold the Hummer Ice-55 later that winter.
Wouldn't be surprised if the Vex gauge doesn't read the battery correctly, since lithiums have a flatter/higher voltage curve and those meters read the voltage, if my memory serves me right. Or the Vex just has such low power draw its barely making a dent in it. 🙂
Lot's of really good reading and points in the above. Hope they have learned some lessons from the past and the Greed doesn't come back again! It's always Man's Greed that makes them fail! 😕
"Commercial fishing grew from 200 Indian netters
in the 1960s to a peak of 600 in the 1980s,
with some individuals setting 80 nets, Bedeau
said. With large bonuses from the association,
some of them made $80,000 per season, he said.
"It was greed," Dickenson said. "The culture
got lost."
"In 1989, the tribe's commercial netters
registered a record 948,000 pounds of walleye."
And this years quota was just about back to that of 820,000. So did they learn anything? 🤔