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Draft difference: Flat bottom vs. Mod Vee
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<blockquote data-quote="MrSimon" data-source="post: 317326" data-attributes="member: 5461"><p>16 vs 14 won't make a difference in draft. Get a 16 if you can. Wider is better.</p><p></p><p>Pretty much any well balanced jon boat (flat front or mod v) will float in a foot of water or even less. Sometimes as little as 6".</p><p></p><p>Like was said above, the motor is what makes all the difference. If you are in that shallow of water, get a jet. There is no way on God's green Earth that you can run a prop in a rocky shallow river .... at least without spending a lot of time drifting with the motor tilted up out of the water.</p><p></p><p>I fish the Susquehanna a lot, and I've done it with a lot of different boats. I've used a 1448, a 1648, a 1436, and even a shallow v hull. They all worked about the same, but after patching holes and pounding out dents for five years, I now use a canoe and couldn't be happier!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrSimon, post: 317326, member: 5461"] 16 vs 14 won't make a difference in draft. Get a 16 if you can. Wider is better. Pretty much any well balanced jon boat (flat front or mod v) will float in a foot of water or even less. Sometimes as little as 6". Like was said above, the motor is what makes all the difference. If you are in that shallow of water, get a jet. There is no way on God's green Earth that you can run a prop in a rocky shallow river .... at least without spending a lot of time drifting with the motor tilted up out of the water. I fish the Susquehanna a lot, and I've done it with a lot of different boats. I've used a 1448, a 1648, a 1436, and even a shallow v hull. They all worked about the same, but after patching holes and pounding out dents for five years, I now use a canoe and couldn't be happier!!! [/QUOTE]
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