From their Mankato headquarters right down from Fargo, North Dakota, where O.G. Schmidt invented the first gear-driven electric trolling motor in 1934, Minn Kota marine equipment is built on the border of Minnesota and North Dakota still today, hence the iconic name based on the border of MINN-esota Da-KOTA. The idea of the first electric trolling motors took off with anglers looking for more boat control, and Schmidt named his growing company for the land he called home.
Fast forward nearly 90 years and the Minn Kota brand is synonymous with first technologies and some of the best trolling motors, chargers, anchors and other marine gear in the industry. You can learn more about Minn Kota technologies here.
COO and Publisher, Jason Sealock came to Wired2fish shortly after inception in January of 2010. Prior to that he was the Editor-in-Chief of FLW Outdoors Magazines. He worked up from Associate Editor to Photo Editor and finally Editor in Chief of three magazines FLW Bass, FLW Walleye and FLW Saltwater. Now he sets the content direction for Wired2fish while also working directly with programmers, consultants and industry partners.
Sealock has been an avid angler for the better part of 40 years and has been writing and shooting fishing and outdoors content for more than 25 years. He is an expert with fishing electronics and technologies and an accomplished angler, photographer, writer and editor. He has taught a lot of people to find fish with their electronics and has been instrumental in teaching these technologies to the masses. He's also the industry authority on new fishing tackle and has personally reviewed more than 10,000 products in his tenure.
He has a 30-year background in information technologies and was a certified engineer for a time in Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, and HP.
He mostly fishes for bass and panfish around the house. He has, however, caught fish in 42 of the 50 states in the US as well as Costa Rica, Mexico, and Canada and hopes to soon add Finland, Japan, Africa and Australia to his list.