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Location: Hayward, WI | I owned aluminum for many years and caught fish from it and like I said it served me well, but I will say that there's more to it than a powerful trolling motor. On my last boat I had a trolling motor that would easily move me into any wind that I could tolerate fishing in (as far as maintaining balance in the boat due to waves). The issue was working a crosswind. A sudden crosswind would blow the boat off course, or a steady crosswind would make it hard to keep the boat parallel to structure.
These things still happen with a glass boat, but the effect seems to be less. They just seem to not react to wind gusts and cross winds as much as an aluminum boat. With that said, I felt I was usually able to maintain good boat control, I was just busier than I seem to be in my Tuffy now.
Fiberglass boats can be pretty sweet, but for what I think your uses are, I wouldn't feel the need to necessarily 100% focus on glass only boats. The right tin boat could suit your needs pretty well, and probably be cheaper and certainly more available than having a glass boat that meets your condition and price criteria.
Tucker |
