This whole thing is absurd. I fret and worry about ounces. Spend major league dough upgrading rain gear to save a lb.......get titanium cook wear to save a few more ounces.......and so on.....and so on.

All so I can lug around a 12lb battery for a month. Never mind crazy town, I am the mayor of crazy town.

And yet.......I love to run a lure while I travel. The finder makes everything hassle free. No going back to free my lure from some errant rocky point or tree. Am I in 12ft or 60? Tough to tell without a finder.

And of course the argument which keeps coming up.......if I go for more than a few weeks I'm likely going to be triple portaging anyways. Whats the big deal with a 12lb battery? I usually go from daylight to dark so the extra trip is not that big a deal.......it is, after all, a fishing trip is it not?

Amazing how we can talk our selves into things isn't it? Rationalizing, deflecting, justifying.........Will I be happy without a finder.......and unfortunately after having had the best will I be content with less? No and no.

I should probably bring a cheap little tester so I can keep an eye on it. Don't want to drain it completely and ruin it, sort of expensive. Love the glass mat technology however. Maybe I can ration the thing so it will last.

Anyways, thanks guys.......special thanks to MP. Ever consider manufacturing those battery holders you make MP? If you could send me a prototype I could present it to the board at MT enterprises for consideration to go nationwide with them. I'm sure we could arrange something in the way of gratuity  ;)