Trolling Motors on Shallow Water Anchors?

[J.W.]

I boated my son and his buddy this morning at the toy drive tournament on Cross Lake. Seen a couple of boats with trolling motor heads mounted on their shallow water anchors. I think I saw them in both Raptors and Power Poles. That's a new one on me, what are they for?

[BassmanRudy]

Can't say that I've ever seen that before. Hmm.

Sure it wasn't the "white nav light" mounted there instead of as a separate pole? I've definitely seen people do that as the light is supposed to at "the tallest point of the boat". That being said when they pole down any time before safe light the nav light is then unsafe/illegall!!

[Capt. BassinLou]

I boated my son and his buddy this morning at the toy drive tournament on Cross Lake. Seen a couple of boats with trolling motor heads mounted on their shallow water anchors. I think I saw them in both Raptors and Power Poles. That's a new one on me, what are they for?

Only thing I have seen mounted on shallow anchors are paddle like attachments to control for drift.

[J.W.]

I boated my son and his buddy this morning at the toy drive tournament on Cross Lake. Seen a couple of boats with trolling motor heads mounted on their shallow water anchors. I think I saw them in both Raptors and Power Poles. That's a new one on me, what are they for?

Only thing I have seen mounted on shallow anchors are paddle like attachments to control for drift.

No, these weren't those drift panels. Or nav lights. These were definitely trolling motors. I looked at one up close. I didn't see a brand on them, but they looked like Fortrex heads. They were on short shafts and mounted to the outside of the anchors.

[Oldfart9999]

Frankly I can't think of a reason for doing this.
Rodney

[coldfront]

Frankly I can't think of a reason for doing this.
Rodney

could it be that some of these folks might be running on 'electric only' lakes?  thinking they do things 'like this' on some of the 'reservoir rigs'?

[J.W.]

Frankly I can't think of a reason for doing this.
Rodney

could it be that some of these folks might be running on 'electric only' lakes?  thinking they do things 'like this' on some of the 'reservoir rigs'?

Maybe, but we only have one electric-only spot that I can think of anywhere around here, and it's just a really small oxbow that hardly anyone fishes. 
Also, it looked like the poles would have to be down in order to get the motors submerged, and that wouldn't make any sense. Unless they're taking the actual anchor pins off the arms when they are using these motors. I'm not sure if you can even do that easily, I've never owned a set of PowerPoles or Raptors, but I can't see running the motors with poles in the mud.

[Princeton_Man]

It's a possibility they were prototypes by one of shallow water anchor powers or maybe an add-on modification by some third party. If you should see one again up close, you should ask some questions of the owner. There were some rumors last year of Power Pole entering the TM market.

[twocold]

Do a Google search they are real things. Not sure why but are available.

[BassmanRudy]

Crappie anglers wanting a super controlled drift while using spider rigs??? Otherwise no idea.. 

[big g]

Doesn't make sense to me.  You have the anchors down and trying to run the boat at the same time.  Sounds crazy, and a waste of money.  If it was good the pros would be using by now!

[J.W.]

Crappie anglers wanting a super controlled drift while using spider rigs??? Otherwise no idea..

Hey, one of the guys I saw with those is a local crappie guide, so you might be on to something. But I still don't see how you use 'em with the pins in the mud. I guess I should've asked. 

[Eric-Maine]

Saw this site today

https://seelite.myshopify.com/collections/fishing-accessories/products/see-brakes-boat-control

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[Princeton_Man]

Saw this site today

https://seelite.myshopify.com/collections/fishing-accessories/products/see-brakes-boat-control

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I think you found the answer! 

[J.W.]

Saw this site today

https://seelite.myshopify.com/collections/fishing-accessories/products/see-brakes-boat-control

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Yep! That's what I saw. That would've never crossed my mind since I don't have forward-facing sonar.

[Mike Cork]

These are for the serious Live Scopers. You keep the poles down and troll along until you find your target fish, then they pull the boat the other direction and give you an instant stop from the back versus throwing back was from your front trolling motor at your fish.