rough water

As we are entering the dog days of summer I thought it might be a good time to present a few topics of discussion to ponder from the comfort of the air-conditioned livingroom. Warm summer weather also hearlds the start of fishing for schooling fishing wheather off shore smallmouth, spots...

Dose anyone (with a bass boat) run enough rough water that they are using a 4 or 5 blade prop? I have a 1996 Stratos 201 Pro XL DC with a 2009 Evinrude 225 HO, and on occasion I run in 4' plus conditions. I know that on Lake Erie some use this setup. I am curious as to how well this works out...