Going to be taking a 22ft boat with a relatively new 200hp Suzuki on the boat. Trying to gauge how much fuel I will burn in a day of nearshore trolling and bottom fishing. How much do y’all typically burn when going fishing say 20-25 miles out?
Fill the boat up for the first few trips until you know for sure. I would say you will burn about 40-45 gallons.
I had a 20’ boat with a 150 optimax and only burned 55 gallons to the ledge trolling all day. I would say maybe 40 gallons max. I burn 75 with twin 150’s in the stream now.
I burn about 40 running 30 miles out of Gtown on an F300. Usually running pretty hard but that extra 100hp means the engine isn’t working as hard. Last GTH trip I burned 62gal.
Mark
Pioneer 222 Sportfish Yamaha F300
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Use to have a 22’ sea hunt had the older 200 V6 four stroke on it and would burn 40gallons on bottom trip 35-40 miles out and 60gallons on trolling ledge all day…
KEY WEST 21BR
YAMAHA F150
You can probably find the numbers online for the exact hull and year outboard if you look. I know Yamaha has a large library of real world numbers results on their website. I assume Suzuki has something similar. It all depends on your hull, overall weight/load on the boat, prop, weather conditions, lots of variables. But this is a good place to start looking:
https://suzukimarine.com.au/outboards/high-performance/product/df200#outboard-tests
There is no substitute for your own real world testing.
I burned 49 last week drift bottom fishing and diving all day long 100+ ft and didn’t turn the engines off. Could have done the trip in 35 gal without dive gear and if it wasn’t so (**() rough on the way out.
26 Seahunt
Angler’s Dream
2015 yammy 250 from north inlet to vermillion area 2 hours trolling never turned off and back 46.5 gallons
2110 Parker
“PBR Streetgang”