Preferred boat for the rough waters of the act on Sardis?

**"G"** · 06-26-2017, 09:06 AM

Bwahahaha

**Wannabe...** · 06-26-2017, 09:06 AM

Age old question. No right answer. Unless the answer comes from me, that is.

Best all around is a glass bass boat. Can fish up shallow and out deep. Has speed and economy (relative to deep v). Can buy at any price point you want - $3k up to $100k, will out fish a metal boat for spider rigging and keep up with any deep V up to a point, but let's face it...spider rigging in 2 ft waves is no fun in any boat, never mind conditions like the act. Difference in tin, the limit is 2 or less depending, 3 or 4 in a glass bass and I assume 4 or 5 in a deep v. That said, yeah, you could spider rig 4 ft rollers in a war eagle 648, but we would all look at you funny.

Now, if your going to hit the tournament trail cross country, take $80 K and get you a brand new deep v...then rig it with $20k more. And don't forget the diesel truck to pull it cross country. But when they get shallow your gonna get your feelings hurt.

Take a tin boat, and fish when weather permits and save tons of money buying, towing and operating.

Take a glass boat and you can go out in the slop and fish when you have too and get back safely with some common sense.

I run an older 20' bass cat and I have a 15 ft xpress for spring time, wading, single poling etc.

There, I've answered and that's the way it's gonna be. Now go on, git.

Wannabe...

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**Snagged again** · 06-26-2017, 09:35 AM

Gee wiz BRM that's a whopper ur hiding behind....Like 2 pitchers in a glass....LOL

**Snagged again** · 06-26-2017, 09:38 AM

Said for years if you want the Ideal boat for all conditions you need to own a fleet...

I have a 19" Skeeter "tin" and a 18" jon....If I had a glass it would be a usable under most conditions small "fleet"...

**SlaterSlinger** · 06-26-2017, 10:41 AM

Buy a boat that will suit 90% of your needs, and make the best of the other 10%.

You could buy a big fiberglass deep v, and, in the event of no docks (like the COE lakes), you could tow an inflatable dinghy behind you and anchor the the cruise ship in deeper waters and use the dinghy for land access.

Once ya get the trailer backed in and are back at the cruise liner...well then I don't know what you could do with the dinghy. Give it to me?

**Oldnewbie** · 06-26-2017, 11:32 AM

I have the Ranger Reata 1850. which is a multi species with ski pylon. 150 mercury' it does 48 mph loadeded and rides great. price tag was only 46k

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**LowePro** · 06-26-2017, 11:45 AM

Man BRM that margarita glass is bigger than my boat!

**Snagged again** · 06-26-2017, 12:18 PM

Maybee in a real big gulf storm you need to either be fishin out of a helicopter or setting home on the couch....

**Rees Guide** · 06-26-2017, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by Oldnewbie

I have the Ranger Reata 1850. which is a multi species with ski pylon. 150 mercury' it does 48 mph loadeded and rides great. price tag was only 46k

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That is a fine ride too!!!!!

**MidMsAngler** · 06-26-2017, 12:48 PM

Guess I need to rig my triton to crank the big 4 in summer time. Do they make trolling motor shafts this long?? 48volt motor perhaps

Preferred boat for the rough waters of the act on Sardis?

It's different strokes for different folks. With a price tag of $75k you can just as easily rig out a small fleet of quality boats if you wait and search. None of them would be brand new and most would need some sort of work done if your willing to do so. That was always the option I went for but that's just me. I know some guys that would gladly pay the money one time up front and be done with it and walk away with out the extra effort and probable headaches along the way.

Now if I was running from tourney to tourney without going home and could only pull one boat then I could see the necessity. Honestly though, I'm not at the level of crappie fishing that I could take the extra 40k in boat price and turn it into a return on my additional investment. No perfect boat for everything and not perfect boat for everyone. I can say that I rode in Mo' Money's pad hull Express bay boat and was thoroughly impressed.

An important point to stress, that has already been mentioned, is seamanship(helmsmenship) plays the most important role, at least from a safety perspective. You could take a jon boat and release it on the upwind side of Sardis when the wind is humping down the lake and it would likely float it's self across. Now add a person in the boat behind the tiller and now chances are she would sink. Usually it's by human error. Boats can usually take more abuse than the people in them. Most (like 85%) of the time when the Coast Guard rescues a crew from a boat that is in heavy weather, the boat goes on to survive the storm. I have witness small crafts survive devastating heavy weather as well as seen a 50' sport fisher sink in a thunderstorm.

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