So I bought a used boat a couple years ago and have it all fixed up. Last thing I would like to do for next season is re-power. It’s a 2004 Crestliner Sportfish 18.5’ with a Mercury 125 2 stroke. Top speed is about 35-40mph. My wants are to increase top end speed to 55-60 while maintaining fuel efficiency. Also to have a 4 stroke. With your experience do you feel 150 will do the trick or go up to 175? Max hp for the boat is 200.

Insane

So this is a natural lake, just a big bowl down to 65ft. I didn’t have a lot of time to graph, but the time I did I concentrated in the 15-25ft range where ledges are the steepest. Didn’t see any structure or activity. Anywhere there were still good green weeds typically in the 8-10ft range held a lot of suspending and bottom fish. That’s where I spent the majority of my time. But as luck would have it…I towed a boat in that had engine issues. The dock they wanted to go to was in the narrow river channel where the natural lake drains to the next lake. There was soooo much bait in that channel it was insane. I could see fish activity eating the baitfish as I was towing these guys in. Sad to say I didn’t get to fish that channel. It was getting dark and I still had a 20minute run to my dock. Next time…

Haven’t caught one of those before but I hear they’re a fun fight.

Thick!! That one will have no trouble making it through the winter

Brian Latimer it would be cool to have someone from Lowrance on to go over settings and how to tune our graphs. 2d, downscan…

Oh no!

13ft. But planning to go out tomorrow with my new Barde rods and hit some deep water.

How much did this one weigh?