Sharrow Props?

[Redlinerobert]

This company ended up in my feed recently.  Anyone try one yet?  I hardly get out, so it makes zero sense to spend $5k on a propellor personally.  

[MN Fisher]

24 minutes ago, Redlinerobert said:

I hardly get out, so it makes zero sense to spend $5k on a propellor personally.  

(blinks)

 

I haven't even spent $5k total on Bass Trek...and that includes the electronics.

[Woody B]

I suspect there's people lining up to buy them........then they'll complain about the high cost of fishing.  

[Alex from GA]

To me they look too fragile for bassboat application, maybe ocean boats.

[Bankc]

I haven't used one, but from what I've seen online, they do do what they claim.  However, you really have to have it tuned to your boat to take full advantage.  Which they do, which is partly why it costs 3 grand.  So the question becomes, is that the best way to spend $3k?  I guess that depends on whom you ask. 

 

I'm of the mindset that you don't really need a fast fishing boat unless you're a serious tournament angler.  In my mind, the best way to get to your favorite fishing spot before anyone else is to launch before anyone else.  Now, if you're a pro and your mortgage is on the line, then it might be a worthy investment.  But for the rest of us that just do it for fun... man, I don't know. 

[Redlinerobert]

For the weekend warrior, I don't see it making sense.  I do wish I had a better hole shot in my boat, but she's a big heavy girl so there's that...

[Way2slow]

I have spent close to $1,000 on buying SS props and having them custom tuned for my boats, but that's about as deep and my pockets would let me go.   Those kinds of accessories are for people that can spend thousands of dollars and think nothing of it, I start having to weigh my options when I'm even looking at spending one thousand.  

Like the new wave of live scan sonars, would luv to have one, but never will. Hard to rationalize spending that kind of money just to catch a couple extra fish.

[Redlinerobert]

I'm with you.  

 

I see these boats with four or five 16" monitors at the helm and the front deck and realize that's $15k plus just in monitors.  I'm happy with the 9" and 7" I have on my boat.     

[airshot]

From the reviews  I have read, they didn't appear to be well received for the price..

[Way2slow]

I know this is about props and not live scan but a little story about it.  A couple of years ago I was at my favorite lake I grew up fishing in my little 14' jon boat.  As I was putting in, there was a young guy at the dock with his tackle looking like he was waiting on someone.  Walking back to the dock after parking my truck a guy in a really nice boat with all that live scan and other gear drives up to the dock and starts giving the young guy at the dock all kinds of instructions so I figured he was probably a paid guide. 

I was going to try my luck at crappie fishing, which I know nothing about, and was having no luck with that so I bass fished the last couple of hours.  I saw the boat that was at the dock a couple of different times and in places I would have never wasted my time fishing, and wondering why he was there.  

When I quit and got back to the dock, the guide with his fancy boat and electronics pulls up and I asked the young guy how he did.  He said they caught three bass.  I didn't have the heart to tell him I caught seven and spent most of the prime-time crappie fishing with my $500 jon boat with an $800 Garmin.  It ain't all about the boat and electronics.   

[Redlinerobert]

Amen.