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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | I've had my X-190 since the start of the '08 season. It is the best musky boat I have ever been in and is more than passible for walleyes. It is good on smaller lakes, but mainly on larger Canadian lakes where there is minimal huge open water it is unbeatable. It's OK on deeper lakes that have four to ten miles of open water for waves to build. I have had minimal use on Great Lakes and have never been on Mille Lacs so don't have a clue how it would handle there. It isn't too good for Winnebago with the short wave distances from crest to crest as the nose can't come back up in time before the next wave is on and over you trolling into them.
It isn't a deep V and doesn't do well compared to them for useability in big rough water. It probably wasn't designed for that. It doesn't like to plane at the lower speeds you need to keep on the big wave crests. But that could be from my setup too running a 9.9 kicker, and 3.3L V6 on a jackplate. It's better with a four blade prop but not much. My old Alumacraft was far superior for the rough stuff as it was wider, easier to plane at low speeds, and had more freeboard. But that was the object as the two boats were purchased to do different things for the most part. The Alumacraft was my Lake Michigan boat and saw tons of open water action. I went to the X-190 because I no longer needed a boat for the big water as I quit salmon/trout fishing.
It trolls fine. It steers just as strange as any other boat witht he kicker on one side. Turns on a dime one direction and turns like a Chevy truck going the other. I've spent about 150 gallons of gas trolling time with it so far and find nothing to not like about it, and many things to like for trolling, mainly layout related.
I guess If I was going to be fishing mainly big open water I'd seriously think about something else with a wider beam and more freeboard. I'd take a big deep "V" auminum boat first choice most likely as that is what I have the experience using.
Edited by Almost-B-Good 5/24/2010 10:58 AM
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