Thread: Aluminum vs glass

Depends on your style of fishing.If you mainly pole fishing get an aluminum boat,but if mostly troll open water get glass.And imo if your looking for something bigger than 18',then you might as well get a glass boat.

As bad as I hate to I am gonna agree with Big C. Glass will also give you a better ride in rough water.

I use my 20 glass boat for shallow, deep open water, or stumps and logs. What ever it takes. It's a 2001 model and still looks great. This theory that you can't fish stumps out of glass boats is phooey. I've had both, and a metal boat will get a stump hung between the ribs and you often have to crank the big motor to get off the stump. V-hull glass boats just slide off. I see that your home lakes are Columbus and Aliceville, how many glass boats do you see there?

Feesh that is true about sliding off stumps.I love both kinds of boats and have owned both,but versitility is lacking a little with glass boats.I sold a Skeeter a few years ago because i couldn't get where i wanted too,but I miss it when the wind start howling.Let me say this then i'm done,glass boats will not go where aluminum boat will go and vice versa.

You don't hate it.You should try it more often you'll like it.

Originally Posted by satdoc1

As bad as I hate to I am gonna agree with Big C. Glass will also give you a better ride in rough water.

Both .. Everyman needs 2 boats. A glass boat and a aluminum. If you can't have both... Like myself... Then you buy one and make a buddy buy the other. That way y'all both have access to both.

Feeshrman, you make a good point about the numbers of glass boats out there. Based on everyone's advice I'll just finance $40,000-60,000 in boats and have both. Done deal.