Never thought about oil starvation. I run my 3.0 merc with 2 24in bags and can get down to around 2mph and still have decent rpms I don't have kicker tho so not much of a choice...(take it for what it's worth I am very very new to trolling) but I really liked how my set up preformed on the water for the first time Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk