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Location: davis,IL | It sounds like your propped correctly. As to the fin, that's a hit and miss deal, it may be great or maybe not so much. A 4 blade prop can have a very noticeable change also, but I cannot tell you which prop is the right one. Any of this stuff is an experiment, if your lucky, you'll find the magic bullet quickly. If not.....well it can get expensive (swapping props) and such. I really haven't been overly bothered by the high rising bow because I'm pretty easy throttling up and down. As to raising and lowering the motor, that's an experiment too. But... raising the motor will at some point cause the prop to have less overall lift while running at speed, also less bite in a chop. So try it and see what you get. The key to any of this is when you make a change make sure you run it in its most used configuration. This means if most of the time your fishing alone, then test that way, if most of your time is 2 guys and gear, test that way. Also note how much fuel you have on board....the key to testing changes is keeping everything else as close to same as possible, that way you will get a real feel for how effective any given change performed. |
