Plainer boards are a bit of a hassle if you run too many and to reel in fish without clearing the ones that are in its way but yes very very effective especially on these fish that is suspended over the flats feeding up after spawning
I saw a man in an eighties Ranger 115 hit one yesterday he trimmed it up because the boat wouldn't move it just kept reving up and the lower unit was completely gone also there are whole trees still floating from being washed out of the creeks