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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | The best musky boat is the one that runs every time when you turn the key, press the button, or pull the rope. The one that comes back in every time at the end of the day. The one that doesn't need to stop for gas every day. The one you don't need to worry about how you are going to make the next payment. The one that lets you have fun while you are out there fishing.
I've fished from 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18.5 foot aluminum boats, from 16, 17, 18, and 19 foot glass boats and seen people using pontoon boats to fish muskies. You adapt to what the boat can do. You modify your fishing to take advantage of your boat's strengths and cover up its weaknesses.
If you are lucky enough to be able to choose any boat you want the decision can be based on what waters you fish the most and how you fish them. You can get a boat that plays to your abilities. There are a lot of good boats out there from many different companies and to name the "best" for you is impossible because every person responding would be biased by their own fishing experiences which probably don't correspond to yours.
I changed the types of fishing I've done and as I drifted away from big open water salmon/trout fishing there was no more need of a boat that would handle the big waves and amounts of equipment needed. As a result I now run a boat that is more suited to my current fishing that entails smaller lakes in WI and MI and making longer runs on Canadian medium to large sized shield lakes that aren't as open. It gave me advantages of a faster and smoother ride, more room up front for my rods, easier handling with the bow mount and less $$$ at the gas pump. I traded off away better handling in waves three feet high and higher, which as I said, isn't that often any more. Not that the rig won't run in the bigger waves, just not as good as the deep-V I had and not as dry because the sides are lower. Those are the decisions you need to make for yourself.
That said, here's my rig. Tuffy X-190, a mighty fine rig for me.
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