Great videos. Last week in a stiff north wind on finger lake we spot locked for half a day perch fishing and I could see a log under the boat the entire time we were locked on my buddy's boat.
I've complained about anchors for years to my wife and it's only costing me about 50K but I hope to never pull an anchor again any time soon. I'll be able to effectively target the lakers in 1-200' feet of water with light line too and perch beware. SOOO NICE to pull up on a spot and just hit a button. We killed Oneida walleyes last summer on several occasions when we were drifting and saw a wad of fish and just hit the brakes and dropped on them.
We fish for perch occasionally out in Lake Erie.
Typically in water depths between 60-80 FOW.
I hear what your selling on hauling an anchor up!!!
With an anchor chain it is recommended by the USCG a rode length ratio of 5:1
(I always use a chain BTW - but that's another topic)
Anyway, at 80 FOW, that works out to 400' of rode out.
Yea, we never use that much, but you get the point.
But here is something else to consider.
Let's do say I put out 200' of rode.
That is the hypotenuse with the 80' being the vertical leg of a 90 degree triangle.
That works out to a circle radius of 183'
Double that for a circle diameter of 366 feet.
So your wandering around a circle of 366' - that's your accuracy.
More than the length of a football field.
I cannot find what the circle size it with Spot Lock, but like you said, it's stupid small.
366' is plenty to be drifting off the school of fish.
And of course hauling an anchor every time you want to change spots because the school of perch moved 50' off to your left...……..
I considered other autopilots for my new Trophy.
But they are all over $3500 and won't give me Spot Lock for perch fishing.
When I retire and move to Florida my pontoon boat down there will have a Minn Kota Terova with ipilot on it also.