knoppers Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I am in the market for a new pontoon, and looked at a couple that had these bigfoot motors. my main question is, I do a lot of trolling with boards for pike, and was woundering if the 40 and 60 would troll down slow enough pushing a 20' pontoon? also any feed back good or bad on these motors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harvey lee Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I have a 16.6ft LUND with a 50hp 4 stroke. With a trolling plate, I can get down to .75 mph.I would think with the mentioned motors on a pontoon, you should be able to do that trolling but you may need a trolling plate or a dift sock at worst.Guess one would have to compare boat and pontoon weights to know for sure.Have 2 friends with the 60BF and they have been very happy with the preformance of the motor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoxMN Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 I have a 22' toon that I have a 60 (4stroke) Bigfoot on. Has 4 bladed prop, can't recall if it is 11 or 12 pitch now... I actually have to bump it up just a tad to get to my desired pike trolling speed. I don't have GPS on it, but I think I used phone once and my desired is a hair over 2 mph. Possibly at idle speed it is right at 2 mph, but can't recall. As for the motor, I can't say enough about it. Quiet as all 4 strokes are. Sips gas compared to my previous 25hp 2stroke rig, and less than half of my Classic 50 (though I still love that motor too, haha!) I got it new last Memorial Day, put exactly 100 hours on it, and it never skipped a beat - errr, once it stalled on me when going from trolling to WOT, not sure what happened, but that was the only time in 100 hours, and never did it since. I followed break in procedure to a T. Kids can wakeboard or tube or ski (slow) behind it, and holy cow does it have power with the bigfoot and 4 blade prop! Holeshot! Top speed with a few people on board is 21.x gps speed. Changing oil is easy. I have no complaints. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marine_man Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 I wouldn't be concerned about the motor... it's been a good motor with limited issues.marine_man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knoppers Posted January 26, 2013 Author Share Posted January 26, 2013 thanks for the replys, I will consider that motor on my new toon. I usually troll 2.0 to 2.8 with the board, so it sounds like it will easliy do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottertailguy Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 I have a high thrust yamaha 50 hp on a 2007 2050fsi Bennington pontoon and it can troll down to 1.5 mph. Zero issues on the boat or the motor so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knoppers Posted January 27, 2013 Author Share Posted January 27, 2013 I was thinking of the yamaha, since I have had good luck with them on my boats. but there is good deals on a couple toons that had the merc's on them. either way, looks like both are good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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