200 would not start for 20 minutes then fine

[lkhartwl]

johnson 200 gt/venom md# VJ 200SLETF s# G 03300493

had a weird thing happen on the lake yesterday, put the boat in for a tourney and she stalled a couple of times after warming also using the choke bogged her and she stalled. She got running and was doing good especially since it warmed a bit ran a few miles( 6-8) up the lake and shut down to do some fishing around some rip rap. went to start her up and all she would do was go rurrr rurrr rurrr. Like she was getting no fire to the plugs. checked the bulb and such all was fine so we started to try to trolling motor down the lake back to the blast off point, Champ waved as he went by( grin) tried to call him and cell phone was dead ( out of minutes need to change to the roll over company) so after about 20 minutes of trolling and occasionally trying her she gave a couple of gasps and fired up, did not do it again the rest of the day? any idea of what caused this , the last time out she ran fine and had no problems, and since we did not want to get stuck we hung kind of around the ramp the rest of the time, was able to put boat on trailer with no problem no bog down or stall. Any ideas before she makes the trip to the keebler elf's shop thanks for any input.

[Airxsteel]

Is the gas line free of kinks and straight to the motor? I have heard of guys that had plastic tanks sitting on gas hoses or other items, such as batteries.

[lkhartwl]

doubt that very seriously since it is built in tanks and just a fuel line going to the motor out of a hole on the rear of the hull in the splash well. so anything on the gas line would fall out when taking off. if you look at my siggy and my avatiar that is the boat and motor