Power loading is a trend?

[Mark Perry]

According to a poster on another thread I guess power loading is an in thing to do because the pros do it? Heck i thought some ramps you literally have no choice but to power load. At least here and the surrounding states I have fished in. Everyone does it or else they get wet wading out in the water....

[Dubee]

Been loading that way since i was a kid. It's the only way i've ever loaded a boat.

[188Musky]

I didn't realize there was any other way. Been about 35 years now.

[Mark Perry]

Been loading that way since i was a kid. It's the only way i've ever loaded a boat.

Same here.

[Mark Perry]

I didn't realize there was any other way. Been about 35 years now.

I see quite a few anglers doing this because they saw a tour guy doing it. Trim the motor high and add enough throttle to make the bow rise enough to get the TM out of the water. Most time they are the same ones that do the power loading trick as well.

[Z520C]

I didn't realize there was any other way. Been about 35 years now.

This exactly. Same amount of time as well

[Z520C]

I see quite a few anglers doing this because they saw a tour guy doing it. Trim the motor high and add enough throttle to make the bow rise enough to get the TM out of the water. Most time they are the same ones that do the power loading trick as well.

Done this as well

[basscat21]

All our ramps power loading is illegal near me, and most do not have dock. I carry hip waders to launch. Kind a cold to jump in with the flip flops fom now to winter.

[SoonerFan]

Float off...Power on. That's the way I was taught.

[local16]

Have always loaded that way.

[DAC244]

It’s discouraged in Florida.

[fishin couillon]

Do it here all the time....

[mxmike]

42 years ago when I bought my first bass boat. It came with what they called at the time a "drive on trailer." Not a stand in the water up to you nuts trailer.

[D.O.C. 989]

Float off...Power on. That's the way I was taught.

Same here, didn't know there was any other way until i saw pleasure boats and Pontoon boats loading. That going in the water and fighting the wind by hand to load up didn't look like fun to me.

[Tigercat]

This exactly. Same amount of time as well

Me too. Actually never heard the term power loading. This is supposed to be bad?

[g352nv]

I dont have a choice with the lake I fish and a Basscat.

[BP in ME]

The way most ramps are built in the northeast (hard surface doesn't extend very far into the lake), power loading destroys the ramp by eroding the gravel until it undermines the ramp and it collapses. Probably doesn't help that a lot of guys aren't trimming up much, they're just trying to push it on.

[Frogchunker]

Only people that dont here,is if they have a float on trailer..most saltwater boats

[smalljawguy]

Been loading that way since i was a kid. It's the only way i've ever loaded a boat.

+1

[Dubee]

Same here, didn't know there was any other way until i saw pleasure boats and Pontoon boats loading. That going in the water and fighting the wind by hand to load up didn't look like fun to me.

A friend i go camping with has a big pontoon. We have never got in the water. Drive it on just like a bass boat