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Location: Ontario | Dumping a five gallon pail on a short, stout rope off a transom ring/cleat will drop your speed down with a boat that size. Depolying the bowmount trolling motor down into the water eats a little speed also. Pails are the best thing I've found for slowing my 90hp on 17' boat. With two pails in we catch lake trout going 1.5mph-2.2mph all spring. The pails are not as easy to stow or space-efficient as a drift sock but going with the wind especially (how we catch 90% of our fish) the pails really seem to 'pull' the corners of the transom less than a sock and make steering easier. Pails are also decent for lugging stuff out of the boat at the end the day or to the boat at the start of the day (ie: clothes, lunch, trash, drinks etc etc). I have two socks and find myself using pails every time instead. I have heavy gym equipment-grade stainless clips on each short rope, one to the boat, one to the bucket. Easy on and off. Those knots take a lot of torque on turns etc. Forget about tying anything or you'll have to cut it off. The clips work great.
Edited by JBush 7/15/2009 12:26 PM
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