fishpmc - 12/13/2013 3:49 PM
esoxfly - 12/13/2013 12:51 PM
"Center console" covers a wide array of boats, from 40' offshore boats with coffin boxes and three outboards, down to a 16' tin boat with a steering wheel in the middle of it.
Smaller boats, the console can take up precious space. In a 20-24' bay boat style set up, I think they're great and handle a wide range of water and are well suited to muskie fishing. I fish from a 20' Ranger bay boat and I've used it from LSC to here in Kodiak waters. I take this thing 12 miles offshore comfortably and it gets me there and back in good time. Bay boats are boating perfections for my uses and purposes. I doubt I'll ever not be in some sort of bay boat...but I'm almost exclusively a big water fisherman, be it for muskie, salmon or halibut....I'm on big water and the bays work well for that. I love driving standing up; to the point that I feel weird sitting down in a boat while on plane now.
I mis spoke there. Sorry about that. I run a Fountain 38 Center Console off shore I just
(and shouldn;t
) refer to a CC if its a bay center console. Force of habit. I like the layout of the 20' ranger. Thanks for your input
