I was thinking about getting rid of my Tracker Grizzly 1860cc and buying a more mud style boat that will run on big water with a short shaft surface drive mud motor. I run on a big river most of the time but when I want to hunt or fish the feeder creeks I want to be able to take my boat in there without getting stuck(logs,stumps, etc.) we don't deal much with mud here in West Virginia mostly wood. My question is how much fuel do the mud motors burn are they as effeicent as a two stroke outboard. I currently run a fifty hp Mercury 2 stroke on my Grizzly and it will run 28 mph with three guys and gear. I was thinking of a Gator Trax,Phowler Pro-drive or a Go-Devil with a surface drive motor. I will be fishing and waterfowl hunting out of this boat. Any and all suggestions would be helpful.

Im running a 36 Prodrive. I checked my mileage using my Lowrance. With just me in the boat 9.2 miles per gallon.

Rob,
Whats with the two Mallard Decoys they are out of place.

Nice set up love the shop.

Rob,
I noticed you have a extra prop on your wall. You should sent it to TURBO DRIVE. He has a way of getting them props just right. (please see his avatar)

Hey Rob thanks for the info I love your rig and your storage facility ,does your rig handle the big water and the shallow water as well? I really don't deal with mud but with stumps ,submerged logs and a few rocks now and then. Do you use it for hunting and fishing and are there any drawbacks about your rig anything you don't like?

And I thought I obsessive about my hunting stuff

How much water does your rig draw when fully loaded?

Your garage is a fukkn mess.

can u say anal . j/j man sweet place

great lookin set up! I wish I had that much space to store all my shit.

Welcome to the forum!

Wipe you some damn ArmorAll on dem tires to match everything else

Nice thing about buying things from guys like Rob is that you know it was well cared for unlike a place that looks like "Fred Sanfords" garage. Hey Rob if you ever want to sell your Pro-Drive rig let me know by pm so I can have first refusal. I bought my Toyota truck from a guy whos garage looked just like yours, in perfect order.

Young Robertson, that's a nice haul of ducks. What's that grass in the picture you're kneeling in?

I noticed the layout boat do you use the pro drive as a tender or do you have a blind for it also?

I run a 35 GDSD with a Mikuni carb and MarshMellow muffler on a 18x60 rig.



Friday before the opener, I put 45 miles on the gps and still had some gas in my 6 gallon tank. Wasn't much though, maybe half a gallon.

That would put it at a little over 8 mpg, unloaded and running 25 most of the time.

Hey BBB is your rig drawing about two or three inches water or what? Thanks for the mileage information. I'm going to guess about eight to ten miles to a gallon seems to be the average. Thanks

I run a Gator Trax 1750 Huntdeck with a MB 4000. With a full hunting load I get about 7-8 mpg running WFO pretty much the whole time. Best I ever got was a little over 10 mpg with a light fishing load. Fished and ran all day on 6 gallon tank, GPS / Fishfinder said total distance traveled was 64 miles with about a pint of fuel left in the tank when I got to the ramp. I run a dual 6 gallon tank set-up in my boat.

I live in N. Cental TN and run alot of stumps and rocky areas. Boat handles those conditions fantastic. One piece of advice for running stumps and rocks is add a rock guard to the motor, it will protect the prop more than you can ever appreciate from hitting submerged logs/stumps or rocks/boulders or the occasional car when we get a bad flood and you go tooling down the highway in your boat. It also helps to keep the prop off the bottom some when you get into hard bottom sandy areas. When I know I am running mud only like in LA I just take the rock guard off. Fully loaded my boat will float in 3 inches of water, I can get on plane in 6 inches with a hard bottom and much less to solid mud if it is soft.

Oh my gosh- RR shows up! Miss seeing your pics on the TX Forum.

Love the picks, I run a 1854 GT with a tunnel 35 with a carb and exaust, IM heads! I am guessing around 7 mpg!

Hey Rob I'm an okie as well. Since you said millet I was just curious if thats a little lake that starts with a K. As dry as it's been through I'm kinda thinkin it may not be in OK. You don't have to worry about seeing me up there though. Too far of a drive for me. You see this weather up north? I'm hopin it will finally push some of those green heads through kansas so we can join in on the fun.

To answer your questions, I run an 1860 GTB with stock 35 GTR she burns 1 GA for every 9 miles I run. This was running WOT for most of the day during a 48 mile scouting run. When I got back to gas station I only had to put 5 GA into my 9GA tank.

I figure mines to burn 'bout 1 gallon per 1 hour of run time .... It's always purdy dang close too !!!