gotmuddy

Not really surprising to me, we have 12ft+ alligators in southern AR.

Them cows are way too chill to be near that big dinosaur

How many amps does it need?

Most of the manufacturers are still holding to the old way which was a wooden boat that was paddled. I believe they make some 60" bottom riverboats now though.

Too bad they don't get on here, they could save a bunch of effort and time.

I have pods so mine may act different but it does not react like the way you describe. 1648 with a 40/28 yamaha planes out in just over a boat length with almost no posterior dip.

there is a guy on 2cool that fishes around Port O"conner or port mansfield(cant remember which) that runs a 90hp yammy jet on a scandy white aluminum boat(with a tunnel) Pmjoffer I think. He removes the intake grates and turns the jet into a salad shooter.

If I have the choice of my hull scraping gravel or my shoe I will let the hull do it every time, so I will keep running a tunnel.

Taken from outboardjets website: " A properly designed tunnel, combined with a slight V bottom hull can greatly enhance jet boat performance. It should raise the motor 2-3 inches and place the heel of the jet intake flush or slightly above the bottom of the boat. A jet tunnel doesn’t work well with a flat bottom boat due to air ingestion. It’s imperative that the hull is designed correctly with the tunnel for the boat to operate properly. The tunnel needs to be just large enough to feed the jet drive its water requirements. A tunnel that is longer, wider or deeper than necessary wastes power in lifting excess water, tends to suck the stern down when planing and sits deeper in the water at rest due to lost buoyancy."

dimensions on your tunnel look almost identical to mine. mine is 3ft long, 3 inches tall.

I am not smart enough to figure it out, so someone who is please explain to me how a jet tunnel equipped boat does not run shallower than a strictly flatbottom boat? The shoe is above the bottom of the boat. My boat has pods also so maybe that has an effect but I have ran shoals where the boat is touching gravel for short stretches.

in sand/mud if my boat floats it will plane out.

Guess its time for you to do some learnin. Look into bob's low water pickups, and check out a CFS4 powertech or beauman props designed to be surface piercing. almost half the prop can run out of the water. A properly setup boat can run with the skeg level or above the bottom of the boat with a tunnel.

ehhh, wrong there. a tunnel hull will definitely run shallower than a flat bottom, but it may not drift as shallow.

Welcome back!

where you live? interested

Its great to be able to use a boat that already has memories in it. How do you like the stick steering with a jet?

that bridge is still sketchy looking but held up my sequoia last month 😄

where are you at?

What a waste. At least those dead fish could have fed the ecosystem.

Why in the world were they doing throwing those fish in the dumpster? Sheesh.

I haven't fished there in probably a decade. I always thought it was neat because its basically the same temperature year round, and it has decent current all the time. I have only fished it by boat once though.

lucky!

x2. That looks like it was a great family trip. Them yankee fish sure look funny compared to what I catch in the gulf 😅

We had a good warming trend this week, I think your on the right track. Might throw a smoke colored grub on a 1/4" head if you have the patience