06-10-2014, 08:08 PM
My son and I took the grand kids on my new to me boat up to E C yesterday.
The plan was to learn all the bells ans whistles on the boat and to try to bring home some trout for the smoker.
Good plan I guess.
We used down riggers and fished several different patterns.
We boated 4 nice Bows with 2 of then in the 16" to 17" range. Some soars [ringworm] on two of the fish. We lost twice as many as we let the kids bring in most of the fish.
Dodgers with squids was bets with a Brown Trout Rapala coming in second.
Now for the question. The boat came from Arizona.
It has a 115 horse Merc on it. The prop pitch is 17 and it felt like it could use a bit more thrust. Would I be correct in trying a 15 at EC elevations and higher?
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The plan was to learn all the bells ans whistles on the boat and to try to bring home some trout for the smoker.
Good plan I guess.
We used down riggers and fished several different patterns.
We boated 4 nice Bows with 2 of then in the 16" to 17" range. Some soars [ringworm] on two of the fish. We lost twice as many as we let the kids bring in most of the fish.
Dodgers with squids was bets with a Brown Trout Rapala coming in second.
Now for the question. The boat came from Arizona.
It has a 115 horse Merc on it. The prop pitch is 17 and it felt like it could use a bit more thrust. Would I be correct in trying a 15 at EC elevations and higher?
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