Anyone familliar with boating the Yough at the Boston bridge ?

I have never launched in Boston near the bridge. As a kid, I remember that section of the river being shallow. I would like to launch at the bridge and go towards the Boston Waterfront restaurant and beyond. I used to fish 30 years ago and I hear that it's good smallie fishing. Is it deep enough that I don't have to worry about hitting anything with my 16' deep V?

If i remember correctly the channel holds steady at 6-8' deep from the bridge up past Boston Waterfront. Downstream from Boston you will run into trouble

So in your opinion, worth launching there or not enough fishable water with 50hp hanging off the back with no power trim?

Run into trouble downstream? I haven't been there in a,few years but I used to always run down to the mouth at the Mon. Never had an issue, some shallow areas but I always made it back just fine.

Since no one else mentioned it, the boston bridge is currently closed, so depending on where you are coming from, it will be a hassle to get to the boston side of the boston bridge.

When launching at the Boston Ramp, you have to go 75% of the way across the river before turning downstream.
Go down the middle, around the bend until you see the next bridge. It's a train bridge. You can only go through the opening on the far left (heading downstream).
Anywhere else and you will run a ground.
100 yards past the bridge, you can run the middle all way to Mon.

Going upstream from Boston, you have to stay to the left side.
1/2 mile upstream of Boston Waterfront, the right side gets extremely shallow.
When you reach the next bend, stay in the middle. There are some large rocks there near the island.
Once past them, there is a large deep pool. Coulter ramp is just upstream on the left.
Past that, good luck. It changes constantly yearly with the high water in the spring.
A mile or so upstream, there is another island with very little water around it in the summer.

What flashdance said.

During mid-summer when I used to launch at Boston, I would have to tilt my motor in my 14' boat (15 hp short shaft) when going upstream past the restaurant. There are a few tires and shopping carts scattered through the area too that you'll need to avoid.

I've been hammering the SM's this year. I'm picking up bigger SM's as summer goes on.  Back in June, 9" was a lunker.