Nickk
Well-known member
Okay, I'm a newb to fishing from a boat. I've been a bank and wade fisherman for a long time. I have a yak that I fish from and this year I joined a club as a non-boater. Bass boats are great, and perfect to fish from but what's up with all the engine failure. It seems like people are accepting that blowing an engine or powerhead every so often resulting in shelling out $2K-$7K. To me that's wholly unacceptable, I can't really see dropping that kind of money on something that is so unreliable. Is it abuse, poor design, or are large displacement outboards built to the edge of performance tollerance? I plan to do a jon boat conversion in the near future mainly because of money and storage space but I'd like to have a bigger boat someday to fish larger water-do all the engines just suck that much?