Hey "Sore Thumb II"
Your buddy must be a very intelligent man. I hear he fishes in March in the small farm ponds, pulling out ligament stretching hogs. While you are obviously trolling around at 50mph while throwing out your rat'l traps, doing nothing more than getting wind burned and upsetting your buddy, (who by the way, is stuck in the back at the mercy of your 24 volt 6,000 lb Minn Kota). Slow down son, you are passing up the real fish. The reason they get so big is because they aren't so fast to jump on lures right away.