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| I downloaded some Lund catalogs off their site a year or so ago when I was boat shopping last, and just ran across some of them while cleaning out my laptop. I ran across a spread in the 1996 catalog that contained 2 models of bass boats. Looks like they made one for a couple years, and then dropped the idea alltogether. Seems like a lot of musky guys fish from bass boats, or boats that are very close to being bass boats (lund predator, tuffy x-190, etc), so while I know a bass boat isnt the equivalant of the others I mentioned in rougher water, I'm surprised they just dropped the whole concept. Anyone have any insight into the psyche of the northern midwest boat buyer and why these boats never went anywhere? Anyone ever seen one?
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Location: With my son on the water | I have seen that boat and Alumacaft made a model similar to this too call the Phantom.
When I was in the process of buying a boat I looked at this model but it had a few simple issues.
1. It didn't have any floor space for large muskie size tackle boxes. Keep in mind this was almost 20 years ago and the plastic plano type boxes many of us use now were not invented yet. I simple don't know where I would have put my tackle. This was the main reasonI didn't buy it.
2. The boat didn't sit very low to the water and the deck was almost too high. The Lund was higher than the Phantom and it didn't have any freeboard to keep you inside. The Phantom has a bit of a ledge that your feet bump up to so you don't walk out.
My buddy still has a Phantom and I will be honest it is great to fish out of and can handle extremely rough water.
There are lots of good boats on the market and I imagine the manufactures have to change to keep up with the trends but we all have a favorite boat we would like to see come back. Wouldn't it be cool to be able to design the dream boat exactly for what fits you? (Which appears you can do to a degree with Tuffy) But then we are all different so what is good for you may be bad for others and there is no way a manufacture could stay in business. |
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Location: Minnesota | it looks like my old crestliner. i had a 2004 crestliner CMV 1850 it was a nice boat i miss it at times. mostly when im wiping down my glass boat.lol they dont make that any more eather
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Location: tHe LaKe Of PrIoR, mN | A buddy of mine has the lund bass and wouldn't trade it for any of the newer model lunds |
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| The comment about the deck being high certainly makes sense when you look at the photo. The casting deck is almost even with gunnel. Don't think I would like that. Looks like it would be easy for stuff to go right over the side in a chop. Including anglers. |
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| Yeah, I'm sure there's a big element of different strokes for different folks, and the casting deck is very much that of a bass boat (deck within an inch or two of gunwales is pretty normal on many brands), but I guess what I'm curious about is why they would have cancelled the entire category of boats from their line, rather than lower the deck by an inch and a half, add some storage, etc...
Probably business #*#*e, in order to address that different market needed a whole nother advertising budget, maybe even different trade shows, different dealer base, etc, and they couldn't afford the Capital to do that with the number of boats they were going to sell in x years,...but with the resurgence of tin boats and the build quality, etc, it struck me as a shame that it never went anywhere.
(And, I'd just about kill to have a big high deck like that on my lund!)
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Location: new richmond, wi. & isle, mn | One of my fishing partners has had his since he bought it new in 95, I believe. Great boat to fish out of. Even better now with the longer rods available today. Very high deck that takes some getting used to. You literally can walk right out of the boat. He's been through a lot of cameras,shoes,,tools and whatever else was left on the back deck when he took off . Very stable boat but far from dry on big water. It can be a bit bruising but that's just norm for aluminum boats in my opinion. Similar to the old phantoms but bigger. |
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