Most 20ft boats now have 250's on them. And yes if you wanna take off and run with the big boys then you will get your a** soaked. I had an 18 ft that would run 70 and although it was lightning fast out of the hole, it wasnt long before i was being passed by the big boats and catching spray. Not trying to start an argument here but the boats that are running into the mid 70s, which is 90% of them around here, and want to run WOT then they should be out in the front of the pack. And I dont mind letting them go and battle it out, as i cruise right by them. LOL!!!!

Please tell me your setup?

yes, long ago. but i wasn't aware that anyone was stupid enough to allow such things as that these days.

If your going to have fast boats then don't be scared to race them to you fishing holes . Don't bash the TD if you don't want to be in the race stay back..

THat was us saturday... and we were the first in Indian... I did see all you "Big Boys" roll in behind us. Maybe you are scared to run in the timber with your fancy boats.

Winners tell jokes, losers tell how fast they were at the start.

What a retard....

Are there any video's posted of the mad dash anywhere?

Wow, we had to start drawing boat numbers in our Wednesday night tournaments because the shotgun starts were getting a little hairy with 30+ boats.

Anybody see any lower units knocked off?

I heard one boat hit something hard, they were wot when they hit it, kept right on going, also heard that there were 7 boats tore up last week, one of them busted their transom.

Have been in many shotgun starts.It can get really hairy on Pines running from south to north when there are 50 boats racing to the poles and everyone has to funnell down to the boat lane.A guy lost power at wide open one time in the poles and it was a rodeo from there out ,people taking evasive action ,running through timber and such. No thanks on shotgun starts.

There was a fellow killed on Murvaul I think it was in the 80s. He got tossed out of the boat he was riding in and one of the boats behind him ran over him. I don't mind shotgun starts but you need to know your limitations on how fast your boat is and how well you can handle it in all them wakes. If you want to be the first one to start fishing, drop your trolling motor and start where everyone just took off from.

I hit something while breaking over on pad in Indian... needless to say I idled the rest of the day.

I remember a shotgun start at Rayburn back in the day. We took off and Harold Allen and his Skeeter passed me and wetted us down pretty good. I decided, from then on, I would have a faster boat.