Its old school spot lock.
Old school spot lock is an anchor 😉
Yea, spot lock is for sitting in one place.Wave whackers are for slowly and precisely moving thru an area or around and thru structure when presenting your bait in a slow precise manner is required.
I'd say I do that with my trolling motor just moving forward trolling sewn smelt or even live bait at less than 1 mph. I never personally understood back trolling and why it's preferred in some instances but then again I've never caught a walleye in my life.
But how tight to a contour line can you stay with bow mount motor with your line behind you? Say you want to follow exactly a 20 foot break that shifts rapidly back and forth. I challenge you do that with a bow mount motor. Sure you can do it if you're standing in the front of the boat but not as precisely. Or am I wrong?
Chart plotter + I pilot and you can creep forward at .1 all along the 20’, 30’, etc line.
I still have a rack of dog bone markers somewhere. Catch a perch....drop a marker. Old school plotting.Rg
Yea, spot lock is for sitting in one place.Mac been using a terova for 11 years , mine doesn’t have the capability to lock on the contour line and follow but then again it’s not that important for walleye fishing here 😉 Far as wave hackers , Oneida when it’s rough holds back a lot of water I have a back troller just prefer other methods
I can record a track along that 20ft contour with accuracy and then make the boat run that track all day while I watch my prey on panoptix mounted on the head of the ipilot. Its amazing. I use my remote 90% of the time. If I'm being lazy I won't follow a contour ill hit autopilot, set cruise speed and let the unit do all the work. I like that it'll adjust the power with the wind speed and I'm hands free all the time. No tiller work.