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

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

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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Famous last words. " Hold my margarita and watch this!!"

Anybody ever looked at a Tuffy x-190? Looks like a good mix of a bass boat and an all species boat. I think they are marketed as Muskie boats and are intended for big/rough water.

cutting back to just one drink a day I see. that would overflow my medium engel minner bucket!! Besides, I would have to arrange bank financing for that.

Originally Posted by Gomer Snerd

cutting back to just one drink a day I see. that would overflow my medium engel minner bucket!! Besides, I would have to arrange bank financing for that.

Bank Financing? Nah, just 10 bucks. I figured if I was Rollin first, the wind wouldn't matter much.


BRM

Originally Posted by BigRiverMarine

Bank Financing? Nah, just 10 bucks. I figured if I was Rollin first, the wind wouldn't matter much.


BRM

gotta get timing right and synchronize with the waves.

Well to be fair, the other patrons asked for the potted ficus tree to placed in front of the table.. After the waitstaff said that wasn't possible, they offered to buy him the biggest drink possible to cover him up. Some like the lady behind him, just opted to face the wall!! Sorry BRM, just kidding a bit, blame Gomer he set me up for it

Not any lund dealers in my area but REally like the lund pro v bass xs. Seems multi species "ish" to me. But my light 190 tracker could float over a lot of riffles in the rivers I kayak I think. White caps make me go to single pole fishing!!
no experience in the lunds but they seem like tanks and the pro v bass isn't a true deep v. ???

Originally Posted by BAMA S

So what type boat faired better on the rough water this weekend? I'm still researching boats to make a decision on boat. I've fished with feelay on the Cadillac of smooth rides but that's just to big a boat. Are the 20' glass boats enough? Or would a deep v ranger or skeeter fisher be better. Martin has 2-3' ft rollers from wakeboard boats this time of year. I really like feeshrman s zx 200 skeeter but a lil worried bout the rougher days. My local dealer has one in stock. I needs to sucker him into taking me out on a rough day. I've rode in a 21' bass cat. But not on a rough day.

Bama. I'm really liking my ZX200. I've had it in some rough water as well as some very shallow water this spring and it performed excellently. I've still got a hankering for a bay boat just so I can use it when I go to the coast.


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Hey BRM,
It's awful nice of you providing entertainment and all...