If you get enough fishing line wrapped up in the spring on your hotfoot it works like cruise control. Wont come back up to idle until you pull back with your foot.

If you get enough fishing line wrapped up in the spring on your hotfoot it works like cruise control. Wont come back up to idle until you pull back with your foot.

Had the spring break on my hot foot while coming up to a bridge on Lewisville. Ended up yanking the kill switch

My spring broke in a marina at Travis, ended up using a set of pliers and fixing it o the water.

You haven't lived until you are fishing the Legends tourney on Fork while running 70 mph at the 515 West bridge and go to take your foot off the pedal only to realize its stuck down because your bottle of Dip-n-Dye is wedged in it somehow. luckily quickly reacted to pull the kill switch. I've always wondered why someone would want to have a hand throttle vs a foot control and after that incident I thought about going back but didn't.

that's scary. reminds me of when I was driving the Bass Pro truck to go pick up some live fish for a feeding show during the winter. I was just exiting 35 in Lewisville slowing down when all of a sudden the throttle went full speed on the exit ramp. wound up in the grass to discover a critter was warming itself and storing acorns under the hood and one stuck the throttle switch.