Ron Kirk 
Most roof snow problems are not solved by getting on the roof. They are solved by the best roof rakes for snow removal, which let you pull heavy snow off shingles while both feet stay on the ground. I have pulled load after load of snow off my own gutter line and helped our team … Read more
The best sit on top fishing kayaks for beginners are the wide, self-draining boats with a raised seat, a flat casting deck and rod holders within arm’s reach. I have put eight of them through their paces on pond edges, small lakes and open water over the past season, and the pattern is consistent: beginners … Read more
Most anglers buy a fishing kayak for the fish, then discover they spend half the trip fighting their own arms. A pedal drive changes that equation completely, and it is the single biggest upgrade in this category right now. I have spent the last season putting twelve pedal drive fishing kayaks through lakes, creeks and … Read more
Most anglers do not buy a weak trolling motor battery. They buy the wrong size one, then ration power they never had all day. After running twelve banks through full multi-day scenarios and reading thousands of owner reviews, the sizing rule is simple: a 12V system on a 30-55lb thrust motor needs roughly 100Ah for … Read more
Short answer: Minn Kota builds the best 24V trolling motors for bass boats for most anglers, and the Terrova 80 in the GPS and sonar-equipped versions is the one I keep coming back to. It pairs Spot-Lock accuracy with 80 pounds of thrust, ships the transducer inside the shaft, and runs all day on a … Read more
A transom mount trolling motor is a 12V electric motor that clamps onto the stern of your boat and pushes it at 2 to 4 mph with no wake and near-zero noise. The right one for a small boat needs about 50 lb of thrust, a 30 or 36 inch shaft measured from the transom … Read more
If you have ever cast a lure at a brush pile, watched the boat creep a foot sideways in the wind and then had to drop everything and grab the handle, you already know why a bow mount trolling motor with GPS exists. The GPS in the head holds a waypoint, fights the current and … Read more
Most trolling motor roundups are written for a 20-foot bass boat on a freshwater lake. That framing is wrong for inshore. The best saltwater trolling motors for inshore boats face a different test: a shallow flats skiff drifting over a sandbar in a 2-knot flood tide, a bay boat holding a channel edge in a … Read more
A marine chartplotter is the single piece of electronics that decides how a coastal day goes. Pick the wrong one and you are squinting at a washed-out screen in bright glare while the tide runs out of a channel you misjudged. Pick the right one and the same trip feels calm. I have spent the … Read more
If you have ever spent a whole morning casting into water you could not see into, you already know why a fish finder matters. A sonar unit turns guesswork into a decision: it shows you the ledge, the brush pile, the drop-off and the temperature line before you commit a lure. The problem for most … Read more
