Kokanee vertical jigging

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Went out to the local reservoir to target kokes and didn't find any love trolling. I did just float and jig for kokanee and happened to get one. Had others hit but this may be my new favorite way to target kokes. No noise of the engine, no hustle and bustle of downrigger lines and whatnot. Without a fancy iPilot or autopilot to hold position I used the electric trolling motor and tried to maintain the jig as vertically down as I could. In a low wind area this seems to work ok. In pretty windy areas this wouldn't work all that well. It's nice to not have to drop an anchor so that the school of fish can be followed. Has anyone heard of a redneck way to hold position without an anchor or autopilot? I'm thinking a semi automated way that is diy. I am out of favors from my engineering buddies to help me build an arduino based autopilot but maybe this is a good kickstarter idea: Come up with an open source arduino autopilot that uses off the shelf rc servos and a regular trolling motor to give you the same functionality as the expensive turn-key systems.
Probably just a crazy idea resulting from sitting in the sun too long but hey, it's entertaining!
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