Abstract: An improved trolling plate design that incorporates an outdrive bracket to be attached to a watercraft outdrive, a rotationally linked thrust regulating plate, and a selector subassembly including user operable linkage to engage a plate subassembly extending from the thrust regulating plate. The plate subassembly uses a protruding member extending from the thrust exposed side of the plate to engage a dog pivotally linked to the outdrive bracket so that rotational forces of the plate are compressively transferred to the bracket. This arrangement of force transmission components eliminates elongation of prior art outdrive bracket slots and thrust regulation plate notches, the result being an improved force transmission linkage. Removal of the dog as an intermediary component from between the plate having the protruding member and the outdrive bracket can be accomplished by pivoting the dog so that the protruding member clears the same when the plate is rotated to a trolling position.