How slow can a 175 Verado troll down to?

[REW]

Be sure to bring along your huge golfing umbrella that you can tie to a rod holder to give you shade.

REW

[Jolly Roger]

I have a 200HP Verado on a Ranger 620T with a 19 pitch Temptest and do about 2.2-2.3 foward at 550 RPM's. I've deployed 2 methods to slow down:

1. Drop my Vantage and put on speed 2-3 in reverse if it's calm.

2. Run a 40" Wavetamer Bag of each side if it's rough as Perchjerker said. Can go any speed I want with this method.

Hope that helps,

I have the 175 vrod and can get down to .3 without any additional gadgets. Two of them actually mounted on my Boston Whaler 240 Outrage. (.3 running just one motor)

[Lake Wisconsin]

Originally Posted by Lake Wisconsin

This was going off of memory - let me check again next time I am on the water. I use my 101 terrova or T8 kicker now for trolling, so it has been a long time since I paid attention to the low end speed.

Been awhile since I have been on, but I did check the motor. It was rough out that day, so I had two numbers, going with the waves at 3.02 mph and against at 1.89 SOG. So I would guess on flat calm, around 2.5. I mis-spoke.