Scott Warren
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I fished a club T this weekend in Columbus, MS and was supposed to go non boater since I hadn't fished the lake before. At the last minute that changed so I took my 2001 PT175 down on Friday with 2 other boats to prefish. Columbus can be trechorous due to stump fields. To make matters worse, it was muddyed up real good. I was following one of the boats to an area about 75 yards behind him so I would know I was in the channel and we were going WOT. All of a sudden I hit something solid and the boat lunged and the motor shut down when the kill switch cord pulled out. I checked out the motor and no damage, started up and fished. When I pulled out on the trailer, I checked over the bottom and only had a small nick on the bottom. As hard as I hit whatever it was, I was sure I had tore the heck out of the boat. I must say that I was pretty impressed with how the boat held up. I even checked out the battery compartment and everything including the pumps were still intact. I am very happy now that I got the new welded hull. It held together just fine. BTW, I was running 45 on my GPS with the 75 and when trimmed up, ran very smooth, even in some good chop. It even handled well running past a barge on the TennTom. I can say now first hand that I cannot find anything wrong with the new Tracker welded boats.
One final passing word - Keep your kill switch cord attached at all times when running. If mine wouldn't have been attached, I probably would have lost control and hit the bank since I was about 20 feet from it.
One final passing word - Keep your kill switch cord attached at all times when running. If mine wouldn't have been attached, I probably would have lost control and hit the bank since I was about 20 feet from it.