electric motor - question why have one?

[rynosaurus]

Hi guys

I have a little spare cash and just fresh into fishing and want to put something else on the boat and have seen many many posts about MK's and WS's. I have done a fair amount of research and i have decided that if i were to get one it would prolly be a ws with foot pedal. I was talking to my mate about it and he reckons that it would be a waste of time to even get one

just wondering what peoples thoughts are for why they have one? how do they help fishing etc?

i have an old yalta 12ft fibreglass with a front cast deck and a 25 yamy on it and it gets me to a lot of places with in the pine and brissy river but i have never had a lot of success fishing and still trying to get better at it and enjoying learning about new stuff

oh also i would prolly get a 44lb or 54 lb too but more inerested in why i should get one. oh one last thing - i think i would need a battery of some sort, are there types i should get over others?

cheers
ryan

[danners]

too many reasons mate,

even if you're bait fishing, you can quietly cover lots of ground and (if its a bow mount) maneuvre in wind and current much easier

instead of pulling up and having to anchor or try and keep the outboard running you can fish and move and fish and move and hold in the current and do pretty much whatever you want with both hands free to fish (again if you have a bow mount with foot pedal)

out in the bay, you can get up into the shallower water and do controlled drifts over the reefs without leaving the outboard running and spooking shy fish

for batteries you'll need a deep cycle and around 100ah is good for that size of motor, i spent up a bit and got an AGM deep cycle which are a dry cell and can be placed right up front where the battery might bash around a bit without the dramas of bashing a wet cell

and especially if you get into any sort of lure fishing the difference between having one and not is night and day

cheers
Dan

[bennykenny]

yeah i second what dan has said, you'll be much better off with one.

[NAGG]

I think danners pretty well covered it - If you ever wanted
to take up lure fishing (plastics & hardbodies) a leccy nearly
becomes a prerequisite to manoever quietly from one snag
, reef etc ....... and it certainly allows you to get into shallower water.
I know I would be lost without mine

chris