So I am looking for some people who have been in the same situation as myself. I have downgraded from a big tournament style boat with a 4 stroke kicker and all the goodies to an older 16 foot tiller with a 95 2 stroke 50 horse. Since I love crankbait fishing I have a couple of ways to slow this boat down if the situation calls for it (will troll about 2.5 mph with no help). I have experimented with dropping the trolling motor and using that extra drag (gets me to about 2 mph), I have drug a 5 gallon bucket but I do not like the extra hassel unless I need to go slower. When I had a larger boat I used to tie a small drift sock so it would lie under the keel of the boat by running a rope from across the bottom of the boat with a drift sock tied in the middle from anchor cleat to anchor cleat. However with this smaller boat it kills the speed.
My questions are – has anyone put a small kicker on a boat of this size and is it worth it? I feel a little kicker would take up a lot of space and be somewhat hard get to but maybe worth interest. Second, has anyone ever experimented or know of an option for having more of a “Trolling” prop built, I know there are companies that build props for specific boats and applications but I have never heard of such a thing as this. Any other ideas that I have not thought of to give me more control than dropping the trolling motor or dragging something behind. The motor runs flawlessly so I do not need a kicker than for any other reason than to slow me down.
