tarpon140

We have picked up a few over the last 2 weekends while bottom fishing out of Clearwater in 20 - 60 feet of water. They were schoolies 10 - 20 lbs. I haven't heard of many being caught near the beach yet. The water in close has also been pretty dirty lately.

Like the inflatable PFD idea and maybe hand held VHF radio for the ditch bags.

Most of my fishing is shallow along the shoreline so the troller is ran up to 8 hours some days, and some areas I like to get to are only accessed by trolling motor. I currently have the wet cell batteries, but they are a major pain to get at to check the water level so it doesn't get done very often. I have a Minn Kota on board charger that says it will do AGM batteries, but I didn't see anything about having to change the way that it is set up to make it work for AGM. I will be checking out Sears to see what they have. I would rather buy local where it is easier and faster to make returns if need be.

I was looking at the AGM batteries from Cabelas to replace mine this year. Would be good to hear if anyboby has any experience with these, and how Cabelas is to deal with if you have an issue with them. Also how well do these AGM batteries work with a trolling motor?

If discussions here stay civil and actually output good information without having to read through to much BS this will be the top board of its kind in a hurry. Good to see so many people with level heads that can think logically.