150 hp vs 200 hp?

[THEFERMANATOR]

You can always get a high five 5 bladed stainless prop. NOTHING will get you on plane faster than one of them. They're also VERY smooth with an ok cruise, but they SUCK at wide open. I had one on my flats boat and could throw people out of it getting on plane, it was up in literally a boat length, but top speed was 52mph, that was it. In contrast, I switched to a 4 blade mirage plus, it would still get on plane quite respectably(about 2 boat lengths with full tabs), cruised about the same speeds of low to mid 30's with the XRI 150 Merc loafing along at 3200-3500 rpm's, but I hit 62 when I dropped the hammer, and had more in it(the wife never let me open it up fully, 60 was her limit). A prop change or having 2 or 3 props can go a long ways to making 1 boat do it all.