Location: Green Bay, WI | jonnysled - 5/17/2013 8:07 AM
Have you taken a ride in the Bay-Rangers or Pathfinders yet? i ran a boston whaler dauntless and then a Ranger 200C Center Console. For a true big-water experience you can't go wrong with a big Center-Console. They are a dream in the crazy stuff and if you fish big water, they deliver in spades for fishing performance.
I owned a 19+ foot Key West center console when we lived in Florida. For a caster, that's a SWEET set-up. But for a troller, no thanks. Maybe it would be fine trolling under a T-top in 80-degree weather off-shore, but not for trolling in 30-40 degrees temps we get here in the Fall. I'll take my canvas, thanks. People may laugh at me for using a full topset and side curtains when the wind is howling out there, but when it's that cold you are very likely to screw something when the big one hits 8-9 hours after a whole lot of nothing in terms of action. So having fished from both on Green Bay (we moved back from FL with that rig, and then traded it here), I'll take the walk-through windows any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Canvas is the way to go in the Fall on Green Bay, for this old boy...
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