I saw a guy last year hunting in the north flats with a regular outboard. While 90% or us where running some sort of mm. He was going everywhere we were going. Including the thick lillies like they weren't there. I thought to myself aside from the jack plate he has to have something else. Low and behold he pulls up to the ramp and pulls off some type of fin from the bottom of his boat. My questiin is what is it and where can I get one?

Where you at? It's a lilly keel.

We have run 25 hp tunnel boats with keel for years. They really work great , just always have the worry of overheating with a water pump. PM some of the boat builders on here, they will point you in the right direction.

Around opelousas area. I plan on gettin a gtr but in the mean time while trying to pay for wedding amd savin up I need something kinda like this.

Brother is around 30-40 miles from you.

He makes them? Where's he located?

Check your PM's

probably had screens over his intakes on his outboard for preventing vegetation from getting in his pump. With screens and a jack plate, keel guard, you can go just about anywhere with an outboard.... but not quite everywhere you can with a mm.

I don't doubt that bb. Just lookin for a temporary setup for now to do a little fishin a froggin'. Hopefully I have a mm by august. Just have to see how the cards are played. Thanks for the replys guys

While your at it, extend your tattle tell along the side your boat and make it piss to the front and off to the side in front of the drivers seat. Now you won't have to keep looking back to see if the water pump is working.

Where can I buy an extension? Like west marine? Also is there some type if screen you can put over your inlet for less debris gettin in?

Brother can fix you up a screen too.

Will that's awesome! Owen that's exactly what I was talkin about

Mrs Claudia

Tell her Owen says hello.

Anybody run that jack plate???? What's it all about?

Run the jackplate with a tunnel to get the cavitation plate level with the top of the tunnel.

Kibb I talked to the guy that sells those jack plate and he has an extension that comes with it and all the hardware.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVOfwqncnY4
This 25 hp Mercury on a mudflat is crazy. Many of you have seen it before, but it is still a good example of what the right setup can accomplish.

Thays bad a$$. I saw that 40 merc doin some stuff like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Meh_wA5l4
40 Merc running grass and shallow ditch.

They got the same guy runnin some flats. Only thing I'm worried about with that keel is hitting stuff. The jack plate seems more feasible for what I wanna do, plus it has a keel.

May be able to run a mudflat bt he ain't stoppin. He says dead stop. We all see he doesn't

Fowl, you,others and myself are overly impressed with that lilly cutter. I went with T al to the Basin last year in early summer. He put that lilly cutter on his boat when we left the ramp. My jaw was locked wide open with what that boat cut through that day. To this day I am still memorized with what his boat did. He has a seventeen foot crawfish skiff, jackplate, stainless mesh over intake and the lillty cutter. That boat is set up perfect. However one must always be looking back to make sure the motor does not overheat. We would stop every now and then in the clear and let the motor run clean water to ensure the mesh was not clogged up. His boat had a Yamaha 85 two stroke on it. Its a Dugas skiff. Its a F...ing awesome rig. If I ran anything like what we did that day I would have its twin. Those crawfisherman know how to get'r done.

^^^ dem dugas skiffs are top notch. Nothing built likem anymore.

Coulda used this unit last night. Went froggin in henderson and the lillies were bad! My lil 25 was a strugglin while the rest of em with there sd's were just cruisin right along lol. Oh well I ended up callin terry with the ultra jack. Went ahead and ordered one. Should be a couple weeks before he finishes up with it.

Just makin sure I didn't waste my money. I opted to go with the 35 gtr but I will have to wait a little longer. In the mean time this is the setup I will be running