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| JV, I have a brand new RT188 in the garage that I just recently purchased that hasn't even seen water yet, so I can't answer the big, rough water question. The obvious assumption would be that it doesn't handle it as well as most other "traditional musky boats".
But that is exactly why I bought one. I don't fish big water and I don't troll. A large lake for me would be 800-1,000 acres. I spend all of my time on the front deck, leaning on my butt seat, working the trolling motor and casting. A bass boat is made for a guy like me. I took quite a bit of flak from musky guys (and many others) about buying a bass boat as most musky guys don't own one. They just are not seen much in the upper midwest as everybody is running deep V's. I even had a salesman at a dealership say, "You don't want a bass boat. They're not popular around here," and then proceed to explain that my thinking was wrong. This even after I just finished explaining to him my fishing style. He had an RT188 in stock on the showroom floor. Needless to say, he didn't get my business.
I can say that I am impressed with the layout, storage and extremely large deck sizes, both front and back. I looked at many different makes and I can say that I was also impressed with things like the quality of trim, carpet, latches, console, etc. It was all much better than the others. Some were very cheap and lacking in quality of the details.
Check out the tin boat section at Bass Boat Central: http://www.bbcboards.net/forumdisplay.php?f=54
There is more info here about the RT188 than any other model and a ton of RT188 owners will chime in on any questions that you ask.
Edited by madmurph 3/14/2019 11:18 AM
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