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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Musky Brian - 10/31/2018 11:51 AM
Abu7000 - 10/30/2018 7:39 PM
The Natives on LOTW run all over in every type of weather in rather small, moderately powered aluminum boats, and do just fine
Well, yeah..other than the 3 dead bodies that had to be searched for Morson in a few weeks back :-/
True and may they all rest in peace....but...what was the mistake they made? It wasn't because of the boat....
Most any boat can handle the water you take it to given the conditions are safe enough... The key is what one considers safe or unsafe. I've been out in and captained boats from the basic 14 footer with a 15hp motor on Canadian waters bigger than lake of the woods and on Lake superior, to a commercial river multi-level paddleboat, and you can get into trouble with each with no wind at all...but being in a 14 foot boat on waters where you disappear in the trough of a wave (losing sight of landmarks)and reappear as you come over the wave itself is not a safe situation, let alone waves that are close together and cresting often. The choice is to not be on the water there..and in situations like that, my humble opinion would be to get off the water and wait it out, regardless of where you are at. If this would happen with a 21 footer even, I'd be hesitant as the right wave could topple you sideways, or in many cases, swamp you from the rear if you have to move with following seas.
The real question for me on a switch to bass from deep vee/multispecies or vice versa is fishability in adverse conditions and the METHOD to which I plan on fishing...
I don't think anyone would feel very comfortable standing (or even leaning/sitting on a pedestal seat) on a front or rear deck of a boat in 4 footers trying to cast whether bass or multispecies... It's just not conducive to casting in those situations... But...one could troll in it....
All a matter of perspective...
Steve
Edited by VMS 11/1/2018 11:21 AM
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