Mercury’s Thruster Trolling Motor
Mercury’s Thruster Trolling Motor is a look back at Mercury’s debut trolling motor, the Mercury Thruster, a motor that changed an industry.
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Category: Electronics
Sonar Bird Dog for Anglers
Today’s Throwback Thursday, Sonar Bird Dog for Anglers, goes back to 1962 and a picture of Arlen Lowrance holding a nice string of fish.
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Tom Mann and Humminbird
What a lot of people under 40 don’t realize is that Tom Mann was one of the three individuals who started Humminbird.
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Lowrance Electronics 1971
what I have for you today is a look at a 1971 Lowrance Electronics Marine Instruments Catalog. By today’s meter it’s scant. Ten pages including covers.
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Before GPS – LORAN-C
Then in 1990 a company out of Oregon named 2Morrow Inc. (actual name was IIMorrow) came out with a version of the LORAN-C called the Tigershark LCL.
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The Oxygen Meter Fail
Harold’s words to the guy were something like, “My spinnerbait is much better at determining if the fish are going to bite than that meter of yours.”
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Motor-Guide 1964
The most accepted folklore regarding the bow-mounted trolling motor goes back to Ray Scott’s 1967 Beaver Lake All-American. Stan Sloan has always been credited with being the first to mount the motor on the bow, saying, “it’s easier to pull a rope than to pull it.”
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