Quinte Fishing

Was fishing near some slop and weeds with the granddaughters and got blown into some heavy crap while trying to help them. Had to power out and picked up a plastic grain sack around the prop. There's a fair bit of duck hunting in the area so I figure someone was feeding prior to opening and lost this one. I had to cut it off the prop and afterwards had very limited flow through the water pump at high speed. I had good flow at low speed and got off the water alright, when I restarted at the launch to put it back on the trailer I seemed to have good flow at all speeds so I'm wondering if I may have picked up that much muck that I temporarily plugged up the water pump or pick ups. I've never heard of that so I'm wondering if anyone else has or should I invest in a rebuild for my waterpump just to be safe. Thanks for any info.

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Bassn51- Bring on the Bucket Mouths

A new water pump is not a significant investment, it should be well under 200$ at the very most, and should be done as regular maintenance every year.

Getting debris stuck in your water intake system is not uncommon. 95% of the time the junk will flush itself out, other times you may need someone to manually flush and clear the intake and valves.

As long as you have good water pressure and temps at idle and at speed…….I wouldn’t worry about it. What you would look for is any abnormal temp or water pressure, a blockage would generally cause high temps and low pressure whereas a stuck valve would give low temps and high pressure (which is very bad = cold seize) .