Puckster wrote on Apr 9^th, 2014 at 2:35am:

Yeah MT, I have a hard time with this thread.  I suppose I am about to make this discussion a complete 180 degrees, but what-the-hell, bring along some more AA batteries and forget-about-it!! I think you're over-analyzing. Puckster

Nay way dude.......I brought 16 lithium AA's on last summers trip for only 2 weeks and it wasn't a fishing trip.......Maybe 5 hours a day with a few full days thrown in and I didn't get through the trip.

I had some major snafus thrown in however. I slapped on a skid plate before I left which unfortunately was over my thru-hull transducer AND my backlight was left on full power (there are 10 different levels which you control via the power button, who knew?)

So on what I would term a fishing trip, where I run a line all day everyday, I wouldn't get to fer down the road without a significant power source. Knowledge is power.......