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Fishing / Re: Spot lock in the salt?
« Last post by GWP on Today at 08:04:10 AM »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.
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.