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How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power poles down #12244473 05/14/17 01:35 AM
Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 6,363 League City, Tx/Rayburn Countr... Billy Blazer 300 HPDI OP TFF Celebrity
OP Billy Blazer 300 HPDI TFF Celebrity Joined: Aug 2008 Posts: 6,363 League City, Tx/Rayburn Countr...	I can't seem to set on plane with my trolling motor down, but can dang near bust 60 with poles down!! How bout you guys, what ya got. You'd think after all these years could remember. Last edited by Billy Blazer 300 HPDI; 05/14/17 11:32 AM. Thanks, Billy

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Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power piles down [Re: Billy Blazer 300 HPDI] #12244481 05/14/17 01:42 AM
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,008 Garland, TX F fordnut Extreme Angler
fordnut Extreme Angler F Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 2,008 Garland, TX

Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power piles down [Re: Billy Blazer 300 HPDI] #12244493 05/14/17 01:46 AM
Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 5,445 Godley Tx D Dubee TFF Celebrity
Dubee TFF Celebrity D Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 5,445 Godley Tx	Doesn't matter how much or how long you fish. You still forget stuff like that.

Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power piles down [Re: Billy Blazer 300 HPDI] #12244520 05/14/17 02:07 AM
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 8,025 Ellis county B bradnitro175 TFF Celebrity
bradnitro175 TFF Celebrity B Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 8,025 Ellis county	Mine pops right up when you leave the poles down.doesnt go very fast tho Originally Posted by Trickster BIG FAT BASS LIVES MATTER

Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power piles down [Re: bradnitro175] #12244533 05/14/17 02:14 AM
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 17,823 Denison, TX Chris B TFF Guru
Chris B TFF Guru Joined: May 2003 Posts: 17,823 Denison, TX	Just noticed a vibration with one talon down driving across the lake.

Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power piles down [Re: Billy Blazer 300 HPDI] #12244553 05/14/17 02:34 AM
Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 61 F feedman Outdoorsman
feedman Outdoorsman F Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 61	I have the older style power pole, rope sounds like a shot gun when your on plane and it catches a stump!

Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power piles down [Re: Billy Blazer 300 HPDI] #12244579 05/14/17 03:15 AM
Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,379 Nacogdoches K Kristopher Douglas. Extreme Angler
Kristopher Douglas. Extreme Angler K Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,379 Nacogdoches	I'm only 33 so I've only taken off with poles down. And the kitty wiggles at about fifty instead of seventy with the poles down so I catch it pretty quick.

Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power piles down [Re: Billy Blazer 300 HPDI] #12244771 05/14/17 12:32 PM
Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 3,155 Beckville, TX B bush hog TFF Team Angler
bush hog TFF Team Angler B Joined: Jun 2013 Posts: 3,155 Beckville, TX	I can't go very fast with the trolling motor down....the wall of water coming over the bow makes it to hard to see To whom much is given, much is required.

Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power poles down [Re: Billy Blazer 300 HPDI] #12244789 05/14/17 12:49 PM
Joined: May 2014 Posts: 7,737 texas GIG'EM AGGIES TFF Celebrity
GIG'EM AGGIES TFF Celebrity Joined: May 2014 Posts: 7,737 texas	Originally Posted By: Billy Blazer 300 HPDI I can't seem to set on plane with my trolling motor down, but can dang near bust 60 with poles down!! How bout you guys, what ya got. You'd think after all these years could remember. Never tried that, maybe next time I'm out I'll give it a go if I can remember. I am a Senager. (Senior teenager) I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 50 years later. I get an allowance every month. I have PU truck and a bass boat, I am blessed. Conscience never acquits, it either accuses or excuses.

Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power poles down [Re: bush hog] #12244856 05/14/17 01:51 PM
Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 3,220 Grand Prairie B BigCaseyB206 TFF Team Angler
BigCaseyB206 TFF Team Angler B Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 3,220 Grand Prairie	Originally Posted By: bush hog I can't go very fast with the trolling motor down....the wall of water coming over the bow makes it to hard to see .....and an eye opener when the air and water temps are in the forties!

Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power poles down [Re: BigCaseyB206] #12244898 05/14/17 02:32 PM
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 15,641 Southlake, Texas Happykamper TFF Guru
Happykamper TFF Guru Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 15,641 Southlake, Texas	I have only left my trolling motor down one time, it was in Feb., wife was not to happy about it either, single console.

Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power piles down [Re: Dubee] #12244941 05/14/17 03:00 PM
Joined: Mar 2016 Posts: 551 Cedar Creek Lake T TinRangerJim Pro Angler
TinRangerJim Pro Angler T Joined: Mar 2016 Posts: 551 Cedar Creek Lake	Originally Posted By: Dubee Doesn't matter how much or how long you fish. You still forget stuff like that. Kinda like drain plugs...there's them that have forgot, and there's them that WILL "Rip Some Lips" Nevadan by birth, Texan by choice Retired USAF, 1966-1989 Jim C.

Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power piles down [Re: bush hog] #12244961 05/14/17 03:20 PM
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thirtysixit Outdoorsman Joined: Jan 2016 Posts: 219 Bulverde, TX	Originally Posted By: bush hog I can't go very fast with the trolling motor down....the wall of water coming over the bow makes it to hard to see That is exactly what mine does........ "Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who'll fight." - Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin

Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power piles down [Re: Billy Blazer 300 HPDI] #12244980 05/14/17 03:46 PM
Joined: Nov 2014 Posts: 27,540 Red Oak, Texas SteezMacQueen TFF Guru
SteezMacQueen TFF Guru Joined: Nov 2014 Posts: 27,540 Red Oak, Texas	My boats faster with the trolling motor down.... .....and the engine off! Eat. Sleep. Fish.

Re: How fast will your boat run with trolling motor or power piles down [Re: Billy Blazer 300 HPDI] #12245029 05/14/17 04:55 PM
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Rlrob Outdoorsman R Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 65 Prosper, TX	So how fast will your truck go while towing the boat down the road with the power poles down?

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