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Location: With my son on the water | I prefer the single console. I run a Tuffy 1760 esox w/ a Merc 150. We spend roughly 4 to 5 weeks on LOTW every year and we do just fine. The rig can run rough water, doesn't catch the wind, good on gas, fast when the storms come in and has tons of dry storage. If it is really bad the passenger puts his hood up on his rain jacket and faces backwards. To me this is one of the top 2 muskie rigs out there with the Ranger 690 single that BN runs being the other. Too bad it isn't made anymore. (Ranger do you hear that?)
The main positive thing about the single console & tillers is WHEN a guy hooks a fish and has to run from one end of the boat to the other they don't have to worry about maneuvering around or threw a windshield opening. It happened to my son just this week, he hooked up on the 8 in the back and the next thing you know he is standing up front fighting the fish, and then back again before I could seal the deal with the net.
I am sure a dual or full windshield has there pros (mainly able to handle the weather) but the cons (no side tank to lay rods) (I also find it difficult to store a large muskie net with the handle extended so it is ready 100% of the time) are not for me. Plus rain gear is so much better today.
If I was a Walleye guy I would have a tiller but I am not. I run the motors 99% of the time. Granted a tiller has a ton of space but I when I had one I didn't like having to have me walk to the front for the TM and my partner having to switch to the back to fish. This is what I didn't like the most. I know they have improved since I had mine but it also seemed like I got soaked in the back from the spray that flew into the back on windy days .
But they all have there pros and cons, much of it is how big of water do you fish and how you are able to deal with the elements.
Oh how many arguments have been started because of this topic?
But enjoy your freedom this weekend guys.
Brad 
Edited by btfish 7/1/2017 1:58 PM
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