Outboard troubles

My 20 horse mercury 4 stroke has been acting up. Poker up fuel line, pump up bulb, hit primer once or twice, pull choke and hit starter. Cranks and fails to start. Seems flooded. Fuel film on water. Open throttle and after too much cranking it starts. Rev it to clean out further fuel but when I idle down to reengage shifter it dies. Repeat 4 or 5 times. Finally get it moving and it dies. Couple more repeats and gets going. Runs across lake and when I slow, it dies. Long intro to my question....where do I take it?? I am in jonesboro but will drive to get it fixed. Thanks for any suggesti9ns.

PM Sliderman. He is a boat mechanic and pretty sure he is in your area.

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Mine did that a couple years ago. Poured in a can of sea foam and after running for a while it was fine. Don’t know if it will work for you but don’t cost much to try.

thanks, all. gonna take it to sliderman.

Sea foam pretty good stuff. It fixed my lawnmower. :ThumbsUp

I now add it to each can of gas.

I took my 90hp Mercury to Rothwell Marine in Hope. They did a great & fast job on it. You're not close to Hope, though, so you can probably find someone closer. Good luck.