I have a Saito .91 in my Hog.

As FlyinPilgrim said, don't blast the throttle; fly the plane. Give yourself 40-60ft of run space down the center and advance the throttle slowly. At 3/4 throttle (after the .91 is broken in) you can give it a bit of up elevator and apply some right rudder and it will lift up smooth.

Make sure you check your thrust angle on the plane while setting up. If you see left thrust; fix it, don't fly it)

The nice thing about the .91 is that if you lift too suddenly (read stall takeoff) it will have enough power to pull you out of trouble. Not verticle but you can right the plane and continue onwards. I don't recommend trying this but I can say from experience it works

I also use an APC 14x6 and am completely satisfied with performance. It takes the Saito quite a few runs to really break in so you'll be running rich for awhile but it will still give you more power than you'll need.

With the dihedral the hog floats better than most bipes on approach, but it is a bipe and has to be flown in.

Good luck

Bob