Several trips later I needed more, so I ordered another kit. The trolling motor pins were softer than the original pins for the motor, so they broke/sheared much easier. I picked up a kit for $12 which contained two pins. All I could find was a pin made for a trolling motor, Bass Pro's "Prowler" series. So I made a trip to Bass Pro to find a pin that would replace the one in the outboard. The pin is made to break when the prop encounters a hard surface such as a boulder, tree, etc. For a lack of better words, I guess what we did when trying to travel up the shallow riffle was comparable to shearing a pin. That's when it hit me, when I bailed hay for my first time I "sheared pins" on the power take off. I took the prop off and noticed that the propeller was driven by a single pin. When I got home I took the motor apart and started to analyze every part. So we trolled 2 hours back to the ramp in the rain later that night. While trying to navigate an extremely shallow riffle, the outboard motor hit a couple rocks and the prop quit spinning, the motor still ran but the prop wouldn't spin. We have since found a public ramp further upstream. We put the boat in at the boat ramp near the Ohio River and drove upstream for an hour and a half looking for good looking catfish spots. A month and a half ago Rylan, Amanda, and I took the boat out to Brush Creek and ran into a few issues on along the way.
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