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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tucker99" data-source="post: 477522" data-attributes="member: 22024"><p>I fish on the Susquehanna flats, 6 miles X 8 miles.  3'-5' in many places, 6'-12' in some places; really need to know where to go and we all bump bottom.  Not a big deal, it's sand.  I've always used a SS prop on my 25 Johnson because I thought an aluminum prop would bend first time it churns some sand.  I just bought a 20' Tohatsu MFS20 EEFTS.  Stock is 9-1/4" X 10-pitch and the blades are welded on the hub.  I want to replace with 9-1/4" X 11-pitch.  It's going on a 14' Mirrocraft.  Are the new aluminum props robust enough to bang bottom?  I don't think a 20' 4-stroke has enough stones to turn a stainless prop.  What's the board think?</p></blockquote><p></p>