03-30-2006, 02:20 PM
A boat serves but a single purpose, to get you to the fish. And to piggy back on what Dave said, the boat needs to fit your specific needs as to the water conditions you'll be fishing. I have three boats. A one man boat for the teeny little creeks, a 16 FT. bass boat, and a 21 foot center console. Each has a specific purpose, to cator to the abilities I need for each body of water I fish. You can plant Bill Dance's rear end in a 15 foot john boat or a 19 foot triton and I can promise you, he will catch fish in either one. To me, the experiance of the angler and quality of electronics are the deciding factors, of course electronics when applicable. More so angler skill and over all luck. Personally, I think the aluminum bass tracker's are better than any of those 20,000 dollar peices of crap. You can run over stumps, trees, pilons, bounce off of bridge pillers; and worse case senario you've gotta knock the dent out when you get home or pop a rivet back in. Nothing a quick tack weld can't fix. You can drag them through narrow sloughs, get better gas mileage, and don't have to worry about scatching the 4000 dollar paint job. Getting an expensive bass boat is like buying a cadillac truck to use for construction work. Sure they run 80+ miles an hour, but really guys, why the heck would you want to go 80 MPH in a boat anyways? [cool]
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