When I bought my first used bass boat in the fall of 1996, it came with a bow-mounted, foot-controlled trolling motor with a whopping 43 pounds of thrust. It was a “12/24” model, able to switch from ...

After all, manufacturers competed for years to see which trolling motor would keep going, whether through waves, through submerged aquatic vegetation, or at the end of a long day when battery power is ...