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Originally Posted by tophcfa
Interesting post. Reminds me of my fishing boat up north. Many of the lakes and ponds have a 10 HP limit on fishing boats. I bought a used boat that came with a 15 HP 2 stroke outboard. The cover over the engine has very real looking graphics on it that says it’s a 9.9 HP Mercury. In many years of fishing I have never been questioned.
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ha, I did the same thing with a Merc....bought it knew and just had the smaller engine decals put on.... folks did it with the Johnson kickers too
nice to have a little more power to get back in when a storm was brewing
I did find that it was somewhat difficult to really throttle down to a real slow troll when the water was really calm though....so we mounted a device onto the shaft just above the prop that we could drop down to slow us down
like they say, you buy a boat and you're constantly sinking money into it
when you added everything up, those were damn expensive fish that we caught LOL