Yellowbee

The revised look is VERY nice guys.

Oh this is great - my son and I are heading for Coopers Creek this coming Thursday for some needed R&R (and a belated birthday present to me from my son) I hope some of the "JUNK" has been flushed out by the time we get there or we'll probably have to head way down river - not the best choice in my book. Any suggestions?

IMHO - there is no need to add a jackplate for your situation except for making it easy raising and/or lowering the motor. An 18' 6" boat with a 90 hp probably won't gain much if anything. The hight of your motor as it relates to best performance is purely dependant on the hull design. From what I can see from the specs at Tracker, you don't want to be running your motor too high expecially with an aluminum prop as the closer to the top of the water the prop runs the more likely you'll begin to have blade stress and possible cracks that can result in throwing a blade - and that's not fun at any speed. Skeeter mentioned a pressure guage - best piece of equipment you can have!! To get a true evaluation of your situation we need to get several bits of information: 1) Motor height in relation to the pad (the pad is the back running surface closest to the transome) - measure the distance between the prop shaft (the tip of the nose cone) and the bottom of the pad. 2) Speed at WOT (wide open throttle) - I think you said 47 3) Prop pitch - I think you said 21 4) water pressure - that will be the hard one for you since you don't have a guage and 5) Your RPM at WOT. With this we can calculate your prop slipage and give you an idea of how high you need your motor set. You also may want to consider contacting your local prop shop - one that customizes props as they may need to adjust your leading or training edges to give you more bow or stern lift depending on your needs. Keep in mind the more of the boat you can get out of the water, the less drag you have and the faster you can go. In my situation, once I'm trimed out at WOT, I'm running on the back 18" of a 21' boat and the prop.

I would assume it would depend on the Make, Model, and current condition of the reel in question. How about a little more info and we'll take a stab at it.

Probably most are not Trolling any faster than anybody else but getting to the first spot to fish their probably in the 80's, 90's, and tripple diggit speeds. One of our members holds the national record for top end speed for the "Bassboat" class at 123 mph.

Be happy to set that up Lilley. We have about the same amount of members with most interested in the High Performance side of the fishing business. I could see several here that might want info about High Performance Boats, Motors, and/or props and we would be more than happy to help them out. I can set the link to your board when ever you'd like, just let me know.

Thanks for having me. Born and raised Missourian (Kansas City) but now live in Tyler Texas. Fished most of the Missouri lakes over the years. Been known to fish a tourney or two. Bass fishing is my favorite along with fast boats. I am one of the Administrators of FastBass.com that specializes in High Performance Boats and Bass fishing. Wanted to get reaquainted with Missouri lakes - actually know one of your members (Gary Lange), but PLEAAAASE don't hold that against me