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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3389186" data-attributes="member: 5412">I have good luck with Kohler pro version motors, but that is just me I guess. I found out a long time ago that flying around a lake looking for the fish is a waste of time and money. One needs to learn the fish your targeting and fish the water your in. Learn their habits and then go looking for their habitat. Every fish has a favorite habitat during different times of the year. Crappie for example. I do the best in January and February. They are schooled up tight around structure and timber around 25-30 feet deep. Takes electronics to find them but when you do, its fill the livewell time. Same fish will be in a foot of water in April and May during the spawn.  Suspended in open water pre and post spawn. Catfish the same for the most part, but they have feeding patterns for each specie.  Stripers, hybrids, and sand bass follow patterns of running into the creeks in the spring to spawn when the water gets a certain temperature. After spawn they follow the shad around the lake to feed. Fish are sensitive to food, oxygen content in the water, water temperature and structure in their lives. Put all that together and you have the makings for a fish fry.</blockquote>