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Location: Green Bay, WI | Just like no one says you can't troll from a "casting" boat, you can certainly cast from a "trolling" boat. So in that sense, I wouldn't think that it would be a waste of time for someone like Tuffy to offer one of their hulls in a "trolling series" as we've talked about before. Take the 2060 for instance--shorten the front deck by 18-20" and move the console forward, and that becomes a trolling machine. But a guy could still cast from it, although you might get only one guy up there casting at a time. So what?
I really like the look of the hull on the 2100 but wouldn't really even give that boat a second look because of the floor plan. There are simply too many other boats to look at to settle for a rig where I have to work around the limitations (for my needs) every time out. Trolling is getting to be a much bigger deal now than it used to be. Places like Green Bay, Mille Lacs (in the Fall), the St. Lawrence, LSC, Georgian Bay and even LOTW are go-to destinations for big fish in the late season. Call me silly but I would think ever serious manufacturer would want to offer at least one or two options for guys who want to troll primarily. In the case of Warrior it just so happens that is what their boats are sort of known for...not that you can't cast from them. You can indeed. However they have a reputation as a big water boat, and they place a premium on cockpit floor space. So the bow is smaller--and that will no doubt cost them sales to guys that primarily cast.
Last I heard though, they had just put on some more help not that long ago, and the new iteration of the company has sold over 160 boats (I think) in the past 18 months since they've been hard at it. Certainly not a lot by the standards of Ranger, Skeeter, Triton or Nitro maybe, but a respectable number given what they had even two years ago.
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