21 ft Bass Boat with 350 HP? WTF

Got to get where your going before anyone else baw. Aerodynamic boat nuts never hurt either.

There is only one reason to put on a 350

John Candy tried to ski behind one in The Great Outdoors

No way it runs 90 much less 100, that 350 Verado is heavy and has a lot of drag with the size of the lower unit. Mid 80's at best would be my guess, if he wanted to go fast he'd have a 300X and hopped up XS on it.

I live in the Shoals area in NW Bama, back in the 80's-90's there were three dealers who would send their fastest boats to each tourney just for the blast off. Lawrenceburg marine with their Bullets, Jaco's with Allison, and Russell's with Shadows. The lead dogs sold a lot of boats and motor hop up services. Lawrenceburg put their "Tennessee tune up" on probably 1/3 of all V6 Mercs around back then. Bass fishermen in this area were worse than teenagers about racing back then. I know I was one of them.

Now anyone with a big enough check book can have an 80, 90, or even 100+ bass boat with a stock 250 or 300 on the right hull. But many have shifted to bigger wider heavier boats from what I see anymore and not as many hot rods on the water as before.

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Is it really necessary to go 100 mph in a bass boat?

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No, it's not necessary. For some people like me - Yes, because we desire it.

Why? Well, "because we can".

In about 1971 I had a Challenger 15' bass boat (similar to an Allison) with 150 Merc. Would do about 62 mph trimmed out (very little boat in water). Pretty squirrelly flying down spillway on Intracoastal or Toledo Bend main channel. Boat would tell you with side to side movement (not desired) when it was too much on plane and about to lose control.

Still, what I wanted - "because we can". At start of my bass fishing club meets we would get to our prime fishing spot of the day very quickly.

Some people like the edge. I used to be one of them. Maybe I still am.

I currently have about 800 miles on my 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat. 700+ hp, 125 mph in 1/4 mile, 204 mph top end (car has 200 mph speedometer). Car can get me in so much trouble if I'm not careful - it goes without saying.

Why? Well, "because we can". WTF you say - well, because people are different and every persuasion needs to be respected - "because we can".

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I have twin 350s on my 36 ft CC

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Subtle Brag thread is subtle

With that being said. I worked with a fella that fished bass tournaments. He had an Allison with a 250 Evinrude. He had some work done on it, nose cone, the works. Did about 80-85, I went fishing with him once. I caught a a nice little 1 1/2 pound knot head bass went to put it in the live well, He said, "throw that back we scouting", we started fishing at day break and didn't come back in till 3, only time he put his rod down was to move locations at 75 MPH. We caught 6 fish in 9 hrs and threw all of them back. That is a part time job, that's not enjoyable to be. Never went back with him.

Guess you've never heard of SCB bay boats then? They've been running 300s on them for years and now 400R's. They will run 80s-90s all day long.