Scientific Angle

Drew Benton sat bobbing in the waters of Lake Guntersville during practice for last year’s Bassmaster Elite Series event. It was midsummer, and Benton found himself stranded thanks to a dead cranking battery. Scrambling to get home, he MacGyvered a solution by disconnecting his trolling motor batteries from their terminals and using them to jump his cranking battery.

In foul weather, the situation could have gone from embarrassing to dangerous. So Benton looked to one of his sponsors for a solution.