Adding power pole to your boat

[Ginja Ninja]

20’ center console

[Rubberdown]

Stand a guy against the transom and see if the weight messes with the hole shot. If not go for it.

[Javelin]

Only downside is on older boats (specifically bass boats for sure) they were not designed for poles and due to the mounting brackets they can hurt hole shot. It is very noticeable on my basscat how much hole shot is affected. With that said, I love my Raptors, but honestly only use them when beaching my boat and from January to march or so, I prefer fishing offshore most of the year and thats where spotlock is amazing. Oh and one pole is useless, two is fantastic

[DamonJ]

Bought the boat and thought 1 pole would be good, just had the 2nd added about a month ago.

As most here have said, go with 2 if you can..

No noticeable difference in performance


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[Chance Love]

I've got two Raptors on order with my Skeeter dealer. Tried for a good while without them, but there have been quite a few times we needed them.

[Chase4556]

Everyone already hit it… if you can afford two get two.

If you have a jackplate, get the mounts for your jackplate. If no jackplate, get the sandwich mount others posted. Don’t drill into your transom to mount them.

I put one on my boat at the same time I was putting on a hydraulic jackplate, so one was all I could afford at the time. Like everyone else mentioned, the boat would swing. The trolling motor did a great job locking me in when the boat wanted to swing, but the whole point of me getting the power pole was so I didn’t have to run the TM on spot lock all day. I was about to pull the trigger on a second one when I decided to sell the boat. You won’t be sorry going with two.

You didn’t mention make/model of boat. But odds are you will not notice any difference with the weight of the two power poles and pumps on the rear.

[ateague11]

Bought the boat and thought 1 pole would be good, just had the 2nd added about a month ago.

As most here have said, go with 2 if you can..

No noticeable difference in performance


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Did the one pole conflict with the ladder platform.?

[Mayhem]

Not always possible to not drill into the transom. My boat has a key slot transom and the brackets won’t work.


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[Walker]

If you drill your transom use 3m 5200 under screws and nuts on both sides.

[Ginja Ninja]

Did the one pole conflict with the ladder platform.?

Interested in this question as well.

[Snowflake Killa]

I bought my 10 footers from à guy in New York. Cheapest place I found

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[Slinger]

Pathfinder 2300 HPS with dual power poles and swim platform.

[Slew]

2 with drift paddles for crappie brakes!

[kd350]

2 power poles if I ever have a boat. Father in law has 1 talon on his boat and i hate it, if it sticks then we swing and 1 little wave and we are floating again. Spend more time trying to Jack with it than actually sitting still

[Hoggslayer]

My grab bar above my center console rubs the rafters when I push it in the garage. That was one of the reasons I haven't got one or two yet. That and the $5k price tag it would take before its all said and done for two of them. but now I've found this bracket that allows you to lay them down.



Next question. How many of yall with 8 footers wish you would have gotten the 10 footers?

I can easily talk myself out of spending the extra money but I wonder if I'd regret it.