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Location: Apollo, PA | Looking for feedback on 2000 or newer Triton 189's. I feel these boats are also in my price range. My buddy has a 20' Triton bass boat and it is very nice. The fit and finish is as nice as Ranger in my opinion. I'm looking for feedback from people that own a Triton 189.
Thanks, PS |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Look into that 189 pretty carefully, that may not be what you're looking for. 202 or 215 are the models to look at now. |
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| there are a bunch of 189's on walleyesinc.com
If that is what YOU are looking for and like then get one... |
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Location: Contrarian Island | do a search on boattraderonline.com
walleyesinc.com
walleyecentral.com
frankies.com
189 seems like a good size / layout to the 690 you also were looking for.....
the other ones steve mentioned are bigger and alot more coin... |
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| Do not buy a 189 with less than a 200 HP motor. And it had better be an EFI, not a DFI or 4 stroke motor. The 189's had a terrible holeshot. Good boat once they were up on plane. Nice looking boat, too. |
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Location: Lincolnshire, IL | I have a 2000 Triton 189 with a 175 Johnson 2-Stroke and 9.9 kicker(The 2000 model was only rated for 175). I would put it's holeshot up there with any similar boat that I have been in with a full load, Tuffy Ranger, Fisher, Yar Craft etc.....For mine it came down to the correct prop, 5 blade merc prop. I really like this boat for the multi species angler...for me Musky and Walleyes, sits real level to the water for handling fish from the front casting deck and as far as trolling it has lots of room in the back. I think it's a decent ride in real 2 footers(Bay of Green Bay). 3 footers or more everyone is going the same speed anyway. My boat tops out around 52 - 53 GPS with a full load. One thing that I had heard about was the 189 may have been a little big for the single axle trailer on some of the earlier models like mine, but the original owner that had this one ordered it with a dual axle trailer. I was looking last spring and for my price range and what I wanted it came down to 3 models for me, the Ranger 690 or 692 and the Triton 189. I tried them all and went with the 189 basically because it was still a couple $K less than the Rangers for what I felt was pretty much the same boat. Any other questions, just let me know. Oh yeah, Shep was right about one thing...It is a good looking boat LOL. See you tonight Shep. |
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