Spot lock in the salt?

[CP]

Every time I go out.
I also have Panoptix, but if I had to choose one item it would be the Bow Mount with Spot Lock. I go solo 99% of the time and it makes it much easier to fish by myself.
I will say when it 'Goes Silent' you pick up on it right away. I carry two batteries so I can switch out but usually charge (Lithium) every night on the one I was using but have gone 2 days before charging if it was not working particularly hard.
In high wind and large tide changes I have had it running hard (8-10) to stay put or working slowly fore or back trolling with the current. Mine is an 80lb thrust on a 19' boat, which is overpowered on a lake, but I would not want less on the salt.

Mine is also 80lb but on a 16’ boat.  Yeah, way too much, jerks the boat back and forth.  I had to set the “boat weight” to the lowest setting to get it stable.  Works great now, doesn’t seem to suck much juice.

[GWP]

I did the same with my settings.
I have wondered a couple times if I should have gone bigger, but I have never thought I should have gone less!

[CastleRocker]

Saw a boat last week that we thought was anchored.  We figured he had a disposable anchor as he was sitting on pile of huge boulders.  We talked to them at the ramp, and yep, they had spot-lock.  Had some nice Lings, and their limit of Rockfish had a few hugr ones in it.  I'd LOVE to have it for bottomfishing!  We anchor when we fish Halibut in AK, and pulling anchor sucks sometimes!  A friend of mine had to cut his anchor loose last time we were there a couple weeks ago.  Tide changed, wind came up, got a little snotty, and he tried to pick his anchor loose with his pot puller, and boat got sideways, got to the end of the slack, and had to cut it.  Spot lock would be VERY nice when the water is deep, and the bottom grabby.  Waiting for the price to come down so I can afford it personally.  I WILL have one  (someday).

[GWP]

I will make a prediction that you will regret not getting one sooner after you get one.
I have had one fresh (sold with the boat) and now one salt (Riptide) unit. Once I tried the remote I never even took the fresh water foot pedal out of the bag the remote worked so well.
The salt version (Riptide) does not come with a foot pedal.
I will occasionally use side/down scan to find a spot and lock up over it, but most of the time I am locking up by a Jetty or visible structure to fish bottom fish or flat fish.
I have trolled with it and as others have stated, I will run it for directional control while running the kicker, if I need more speed or am fighting currents, just above an idle in a fixed straight ahead direction but not high enough to engage the pull cord lock, so I can kill it while working a fish then just yank the start cord to get back to trolling again.
I had one “Heading Sensor” (the ‘puck’) fail and after troubleshooting with MK live on the phone they sent a new one out that fixed the issue.
You need the puck for the “Jog” feature that allows you to move 5’ any direction from your fixed location.