I thought I would share my experience with you.
I was in 7-8' of water. I wanted to tie on some lures so I remembered my two new 10' talons. So I deployed them in about 8' of water. There was some wind and pretty good chop going on but not super big. After a couple of minutes, I glanced back at the talons and one of them had moved sideways about ten or so inches. I jumped up and went back there. I thought I had bent my expensive Talon. Tried to raise it and it wouldn't raise. I tried pulling it back straight but couldn't get it to move. I kept pushing the button and finally got it to raise about a foot at a time. Finally it came up. I went and took the boat out and saw where the talon had moved sideways in the slots on the bracket. The nuts on the bolts had loosened up.
Lessons learned:
- make sure the nuts are always super tight. The boat is only 8 months old and talons were installed by the dealer. I had no reason to think they wouldn't be tight.
- don't deploy a 10' talon in 8' of water when there is any wind. The 10' designee is for calm water only.