Blew up my old boat last month and bought a tin boat.  Rewired, cleaned, changed the impeller, spark plugs and lower unit oil.  Took it to the lake, Lanier, this afternoon where my buddy was fishing just to have some help if needed.  Launched, parked the truck and the boat was running on 3 cylinders, it has 4.  It planed @ 18 mph on 3 and I went fishing.  Saw a bunch of fish on the screen and dropped a spoon down for naught.  I threw a worm @ a marker pole and caught my first bass, 11" spot, on my new boat.  I ended up with 6 spots and 2 LM, all on worms with the largest 2-4.  On the way back in the boat suddenly ran on all 4 and the GPS said over 30 mph.  It's a 16' Grumman Renegade with a Merc 45.  Loading the boat it started missing a cylinder again and stalled several times getting loaded.  At least it doesn't leak.

Pretty good day fishing  it sounds like .hope you get your engine squared away.What area of the lake did you fish?

Hope things get straightened out reasonably.  Glad ya got em.

I haven't been on for a while so didn't see this post.  I rebuilt the carburetors and the boat is fine.  I fish the top end, Little River, mostly.