Favorite Trolling Motor

[bassNspear]

Just curious what you all perfer. From what i have gathered, Motor Guide is Huge down south, and Minn Kota Huge up here.

So, what do you run and why?

Thanks

[CRFan1]

I have a Minn Kota 70 Pound 24v power drive....

Mainly because the autopilot and co-pilot kick major behind in my opinion. So far I like it.

I used it to catch this on lake michigan Saturday:

[SkunkedAgain]

They are both good products. Usually in a relatively equal scenario, I go with the product made closer to home because it supports my neighbors. Minnkota.

[Larson15]

motor guide used to be really big down south but Minn Kota has captured alot of the market down there in the past 3-5 years. From the strong majority I have talked to and from my experience with both, Minn Kota is superior.

[walleyewild]

I have always used MinnKota, My latest 70# PD V2 with i-Pilot.

WW

[muddpuppy]

Minkota 55# with co-pilot because it rocks, I only wish they made a better foot pedal for it.

[BobT]

I've used both brands and have no complaints from either. Both seem like quality products.

[PerchJerker]

It's been a while since I had MotorGuides, and back then I decided to try them because of how popular they were in the South. I went through 3 or 4 bowmount motors and had nothing but trouble with every one of them. I had a transom mount motor that was good but I didn't use it very much so with more use, who knows????. But I'll be staying with Minn Kota.

[BobT]

Yeah, I should say that my experience with Motorguide is limited to transom mounted. I've used both transom and bowmount from MinnKota though.

[CRFan1]

Minkota 55# with co-pilot because it rocks, I only wish they made a better foot pedal for it.

I agree...with the auto pilot and co-pilot, the thing rocks!! But that foot pedal is a hot mess! I don't use mine too much

[marine_man]

If you were to buy a new trolling motor, which brand would you buy?

[Bassinbob84]

I'm not sure why the mason dixon seems to be the divider line for trolling motors but I'm from the north and like my minn Kota. I prefer the cable drive but have a powerdrive right now that is going to need a new footpedal soon.

[Swimmer]

Motorguide was solid 15 years ago. Minnkota seems to have it's shat together now. I was very disapointed with my 12V PD50 (the white top) because the control board was designed to fail fairly early into it's life. Minnkota priced a new control board at $250 ($25 in parts to make the thing) in order to steer people to new units. After 8 years they yanked the replacement control board off the market. So I was stuck with a relatively low hour PD 50 that I could not get a simple control board for. So what do you do? You have to junk it. Pretty poor customer relations if you ask me...almost makes me want to go to Motorguide.