Unless you are really paying attention to the nozzle its super easy to plug up the hose. 2.5" dredges work best as highbanker combos, bucket feed the hopper until you reach bedrock then hook up a nozzle and clean it all up, its downright easy to out shovel the 2.5". My experience of Prolines aren't super great, they are hard to take down and pack into the backwoods, they are pricey and I don't have faith in their sluices we tried placing a letrap sluice behind one and it caught pickers! My 2.5" keene which is old as the hills floated on an innertube, I have also played with my buddies newer 2.5" keene with pontoons out on the N Yuba river it handled choppy water fairly well, somtimes in moving from spot to spot through rapids the pontoons would nose dive and it would try to submarine the dredge. I have never played with a Dahlke though I have eyeballed the hell out of them I'm not a fan of the one piece construction, the pumps are pretty cool looking and I like the dovetail riffles, a concept I would like to play with in my 4".
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