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Location: On the X that marks the mucky spot | I love my bassboat, but I will admit it's wet in the big stuff. We had 5'ers out on Leech a couple weeks ago at the Frank Schnider MI Tournament. I won't say that it was the most comfortable experience, but it's still better then riding in most aluminum boats. When I fish, I have everything except the rods I'm going to use and the net under the hatches. It fishes 3 very nicely and gets pretty good gas milage (over 5mpg when I'm cruising). I threw hand rails on it this year and mounted a couple down east rod holders and that's worked all right for trolling. Anything over 2 lines gets a little tricky though.
If you want to run them in big water, you've got to go at least 20' with each additional foot adding comfort and safty. Look at the V in the bow of the boat. Some are flat (Skeeters and Nitro's for example) and some are pretty good (Champion, Procraft, Triton XD). The deeper the V the slower the boat will be. Most people can give-up 75mph and settle for 70mph. Check out www.bassboatcentral.com and look at their classifieds for a huge selection if your willing to drive a little bit.
I like the idea of the Triton 21 XD, but there's 2 problems for me.
1. They're about $40,000-$45,000
2. You can only get Triton's with Merc's now. |
