Looking for opinions on what's the better motor for crawfishing.........

GTR

GTR

better reverse for what youll be doing

If you don't mind explaining your reasoning so i can have an idea.
I have a buddy that has a PD and it seems to work well.
I rode in a gator tail this weekend and was pretty impressed. Reverse on the GTR seems like it would be a lot easier.
Just wanted some thoughts.

Thats what i figured!

Thanks fellos.

And if you buy a gtr there's free koolaid or something

I have a PD and just got into crawfishing recreationally. I will honestly say that it's the first time I've been frustrated with the ratcheting reverse, and I have a pin puller. It would be nice to have instant reverse, but I got used to approaching the traps more deliberately and got it figured out quickly. Now, if I was going to crawfish for a living and that's my primary use of my boat the GTR all the way. But, FPR is more useful to me for hunting than instant reverse while crawfishing.

If you are running any amount of traps, you will lose a lot of time with the Prodrive. I'm not a prodrive hater, but for crawfishing, its not even an option. For every trap I (we) run we approach the trap in forward gear, then to neutral, straight to reverse to stop the boat. In a prodrive you would have to spin the LU twice. A full run is 800 traps, so 00:04 x 2 x 800 / 60 = 106.6. So, theoretically it would take 1hr 46mins longer in a PD to run the same traps I run with a GTR. Sure you can run a chain, but a chain is not enough to stop the boat once you put a load in it. Another nice thing is the floating handle. I really don't like the fixed handle standing up all day. Now if you were running traps on bayou banks, a prodrive reverse would be cool, but the point of buying a mudmotor for crawfishing is to get where the outboards can't. I don't know what they run in the upper basin, but in the spillway i bet its a 4 or maybe even 5:1 ratio GTRs to PDs nowadays. The prodrives have really dropped off in the last couple years.

Great information guys. I think i made up my mind. Any suggestions on the size of the boat width of the boat etc....

If your crawfishing and needing to step alot of weight. I would suggest something like a 20'x42-48" wide skiff.

also, doesnt the ribs in the boat have to be long ways bc of the stumps and logs?

Yes it is preferred.

20x42

42" is a little narrow for me, but it works
MY perfect skiff is 20x46

That skiff steps a load and runs good. Brother puts a little more flare in his sides, so there is still seemingly alot of space in the boat for being 42" wide.

That skiff was running 28 with a stock Pro-Drive, 3/16th bottom.

my buddy has an 18 48. Seems to work pretty good in tight areas. THink charles from PP actually built it??

any suggestions on a local boat trailer dealer around the PP, Morgan city, Baton Rouge, etc areas?

Claudes in delcambre la

Uncle J sells trailers.

Prodrives reverse is made to get you out of a bind. Gtrs reverse is good for backing off the trailer and stuff but i have the hydrolic reverse and i love it. It doesnt take long to go in reverse but still gtr is faster to go in reverse.

This is most likely the most civil PD vs GTR thread I've ever seen...maybe we CAN all just get along. Where's DDM and tchauvin when you need them?

Mudbuddy...... No never mind they still dont have reverse yet.lol But really i have a prodrive and wouldnt trade for any of the other, but it sounds like a gt may be the best option for you.

went crawfishing with a buddy today and he has a pro drive. We ended up having to use the FPR today. Im a little concern that the GTR would not have gotten off the cypress tree we were stuck on. Have any of you ran into that problem with a GTR?

also, wts the difference between a stage one GTR and just a regular GTR?

how much more money we talking?

Depends if you do the work yourself or not, what parts you use, and where you get the parts from.

2300 from gtr , and the gtr will pull you off a cypress knee

Is that just for stage 1?

Yeah heads , cam , and mm exhaust

$5 says he asks all these questions, gets set on GTR then throws 9K at MB for an H at the last second like Rudyeng.

Whist, How much did you pay for ur boat?
And is it 20X46?