Ah, the beauty of an outboard. Last year on the Snake in my buddies sportjet we sucked up a bunch of weeds 6 miles upriver from camp. This was mid-Novemeber. Rocks-paper-scissors for who went over the side and dove down to clean out the grate after trying all the standard methods for doing it on the fly. Needless to say, we had to run back to camp to warm the loser up.

This year at the Huskie game in my Predator. Sucked up a bunch of milfoil while motoring in to pick up my friends off the dock. Used the kicker to pick them up and got out to the clean water. Tilted the outboard 150 jet up, cleaned out the milfoil, and we were on our way with everyone dry.

There are a number of things I like about each setup, but the extra space inside the boat and cleanout options far outway the positives to me of the sportjet.