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<blockquote data-quote="New River Rat" data-source="post: 450359" data-attributes="member: 5593"><p>.<p style="text-align: center"><strong><u>preface: I only fish rivers. I'm 61 and have been doing this most of my life</u></strong>.</p><p>Scott, how much experience do you have with a jet? On a river? They are a different beast to load than a prop! The response time of turning a jon is diminished greatly with a jet, whereas a prop has almost instantaneous torque to use. There is a bit of a learning curve here.</p><p></p><p>Is your trailer set up anything like Rich's? The side bunks and vertical guides would be an enormous help.</p><p></p><p>I use a prop and back the trailer to the point of the bunks being around a foot or so submerged. The trailer is angled slightly downstream and the jon's approach is also from downstream. I know that some think that power loading is verboten, but my 25 Johnson is doing nothing to the riverbed that Mother Nature hasn't done a thousand times over. I've done jets exactly this way, but you almost need to be psychic when it comes to timing your turning.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Edit to add: Friction is your friend.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="New River Rat, post: 450359, member: 5593"] .[center][b][u]preface: I only fish rivers. I'm 61 and have been doing this most of my life[/u][/b].[/center] Scott, how much experience do you have with a jet? On a river? They are a different beast to load than a prop! The response time of turning a jon is diminished greatly with a jet, whereas a prop has almost instantaneous torque to use. There is a bit of a learning curve here. Is your trailer set up anything like Rich's? The side bunks and vertical guides would be an enormous help. I use a prop and back the trailer to the point of the bunks being around a foot or so submerged. The trailer is angled slightly downstream and the jon's approach is also from downstream. I know that some think that power loading is verboten, but my 25 Johnson is doing nothing to the riverbed that Mother Nature hasn't done a thousand times over. I've done jets exactly this way, but you almost need to be psychic when it comes to timing your turning. Edit to add: Friction is your friend. [/QUOTE]
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