What do you tire gurus think is the best load range for towing bass boats?

Is there any sense in getting a E rated tire? I kinda feel like that's overkill and you'd be sacrificing ride.

Probably not needed. But I will say the higher the load rating, the more miles I seem to get out of a set of tires.

Kumho's, E rating.

Probably whatever came on your truck from the factory. If you're in a half ton with P tires and it feels a little wiggly in the back end while towing a C rated LT tire might help. (Weight distribution will probably help more and cost less than new tires) The load that a LT tire will handle is based off of the cold inflation pressure. A C rated tire will handle so many pounds at 50PSI, D rated is usually 65PSI and E rated at 80PSI. Dropping the air pressure will also reduce the weight rating. An E rated tire will have the same weight rating as a the same size and model of C rated tire at 50PSI.

On page 44 is a load pressure chart from Goodyear, it's pretty much the same from other manufacturers.

http://www.goodyeartrucktires.com/pdf/resources/publications/2010_loadinflation.pdf

If you're not running an E rated tire above 65PSI, there's not much benefit too it.

You will be just fine with a set of p-rated tires. Air them up to max. I pulled our boat all over on them without any issues. Pulled our TT as well on p-rated tires with no issues. Look on the weight rating for the tire, it will be on the side wall. A bass boat really doesn't put that much weight on a truck.

Tongue weight on my bass boat is about 80 pounds. That will have very little effect on the tires.

yeah the only weight from the boat is tongue weight and it should be no more than 9 to 15% of the loaded trailer, a p rate ll is light load, p rate no letter or sl is standard load and a p rate xl is extra load, standard for a p-metric tire, p= passenger tire, then you get into the euro-mc passenger tire, again nothing or sl is a standard load and rf or xl is the extra load, so before you get into a lt tire a p-xl is a little better than lt-b and just under a lt-c rate, then you get the ride of a lt tire, lol, to me on a 1/2 ton, p standard or p extra load will do anything that truck is supposed to do

p.s. single letter rate (e,h,x,z) are speed ratings, example, the speed the tire is rated to go for a certain length of time, like a h rate at 75mph for a length of time or a z rate at 145mph or higher for a length of time