Doggone, thanks for the reply. I somehow missed it until just now. I'm not in the throw money at it camp. I'm in the get the best out of the boat that it can do without spending an arm and a leg camp. Trim tabs would likely have been my best option but I couldn't figure out how to use them without interfering with my Helix transducer.

For those who have followed my saga, I am happy to say that it is now OVER!

I put the jack plate back on Monday and took the boat out. I could tell no difference in how the boat handled the water and it still poropoised. I am a member of an AL deer hunting forum and there is a fishing sub forum on it. I asked those guys for recommendations on a prop shop. There isn't one locally so Huntsville was the best closest option. Three different people recommended using William Bush at Huntsville Prop Sales and Repairs. I called him and today asking to see if he had a 4 blade prop I could test out and told him I was having porpoising issues. He then asked me about 20 questions about my boat and set up. After telling him everything he wanted to know, he told me he wanted to see the prop that I was running. (Laser II) I told him I had bought it online from a prop shop in TX around 2 months ago and it was in great shape. He said he still wanted to look at it and check it, before he made any recommendations about what I needed to do. I asked him if he could look at it today and if so I'd head that way with it. He said he could, so I left work and made the 45 minute drive.

When he looked at it, he said "it looks okay, but I'm still going to check it." I walked over to his bench with him so I could watch what he was doing. He put it on a spindle and put a gauge on it to check the pitch. Turns out, one of the blades was nowhere near correct. The back edge of the blade was about 3/8" from where it should be. He put it on his block for that prop and beat on it a few minutes. Got up and polished it up and told me he wanted me to try it before we did anything else. I brought it back, put it on the boat and headed to the lake. The porpoising issue is 100% gone. The boat jumps out of the hole and the bow stays up off the water like it should. In one 2 hour fishing trip I got to run my boat on all types of water from flat to white caps. It performed fantastically in every condition.