At least his would trim down. Mine keeps coming up unless I hold the down trim switch on the main throttle and it will stop coming up but the second I let off it starts again. This only works for the first minute or so then it over-rides all of them and it will trim to the deck no matter what. I tried the cussing part but that did not work. I will be fishing from Harmon and Difficulty to the Dam from the 23rd to the 30th, Pro V Tracker 90 Merc, big ugly guy that has a 7' Rod bent plum double with a 30lb Striper taking drag on the main lake or 6' Spinning Rod bent plum double with a 5lb Smallie searching the bottom for relief.