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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