After a winter of short days and long nights, most fishermen are ready for spring, or at least ready for spring weather. For those not ready, Angler’s Port Marine is holding a seminar on Humminbird electronics and Minn Kota trolling motors on April 8th at the shop on Highway 7.
The seminar will cover Humminbird products and how to use them, as well as information on Humminbird’s One Boat Network, a system that allows anglers to control the Minn Kota trolling motor, shallow-water Talon anchor and Cannon downriggers from the Humminbird sonar chartplotter. The One Boat system allows the angler to direct the trolling motor along a path or to a specific point. It also can direct the trolling motor to hold the boat in a specific position in relation to the bottom. It directs the Talon anchoring system to deploy its anchoring arms to keep the boat in position or to retract them, freeing the boat to move.
In the Humminbird seminar at Angler’s Port Marine this past November, J.E. Van Natta, company rep for the area, talked about the Mega imaging system and its potential. For those fishermen who are not conversant in the Mega Live system, it uses transducers to shoot sonar beams ahead, to the side of the boat as well as directly below or in all directions at once.
With practice, the fisherman will be able to detect fish, establish the depth at which the fish is holding and the direction and distance to the fish. Finely tuned, the Mega Live Imaging system can follow the angler’s lure as it descends toward the fish and enables the fisherman to judge the fish’s reaction to the lure, assuming, of course, that the fish doesn’t strike the lure.
The seminar, held at the Angler’s Port Marine building on Highway 7, starts at 10 am. Registration is necessary although the event is free. Donuts and coffee are served before the seminar, and a burger and hotdog lunch is served afterwards.
The seminar is followed by two events at the Sterret Creek Marina at 18174 Marina Road, Warsaw, on Truman Lake. The first is an event for Humminbird owners. Humminbird staff will go out on anglers’ boats and train the owners on how to get the best out of their Humminbird and Minn Kota units.
The second is a Ride N’Go event featuring APM’s 2023 boats and pontoons. If you want to run a certain model, you need to call Amber Becker at 660-438-4600 or by email at abecker@anglersportmarine.com.
