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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | Trolling is no problem for my E-TEC 200HO. It trolls extremely well from about 2.8mph till about 8mph where it runs into a problem. At that speed the boat nose is rising up and mixing a lot of air with the water under the hull. If you watch the temp gage the motor temp is rising and will do so until the hot alarm goes off. Faster or slower is fine but right at that one speed I've got problems due to the hull design and weight distribution. If I trolled that speed I would put more weight in the nose to fix it but seeing as the fastest I usually run is about 6mph, it's a nonissue. Trolling is no different than idling for these big E-TEC motors and it seems they can idle all day with no problems due to the XD100 synthetic oil, reduced fuel charge at low speeds, and whatever else they designed into it. Impressive, but I still would rather use my kicker! Only problem is it can't go over 5 mph at WOT, so when I need the speed or when I get lazy and don't want to screw around stopping and setting up the kicker for a safe trolling run I just use the big motor. |
