What Type of Boat do you fish with?

[deerhuneter02]

What type of boat do you fish with?

Speed Boat Type

JonBoat

Canoe

Kayak

Other(describe)

None

[Long Mike]

Why is this so important to you?  Also, please define "speed boat type."

[deerhuneter02]

I was just wondering. Speed Boat Type is one that looks generally like this: http://www.fishfiddleresort.com/boats.htm (the first one)

[cart7t]

Here's a speed boat, I suppose you could fish off of it

Here's another,

Plenty of deck space, a place to sleep but a real beatch to launch at some of the ramps I go to.

[Long Mike]

Deerhunter02, the boat you referred to is a boat designed for fishing.  It could be a speed boat, but many are not.  It all depends upon your definition of speed.  Some will travel at 20 mph while others will travel at 75 mph.

I am still curious as to why you decided to start a poll.  I can tell you this.  By a very great margin, most fishermen fish from the shore.  Others use canoes, kayaks and the like.  The rest of us use a boat with a motor.  I fish from one of two boats.  One is an inflatable raft equipped with a trolling motor.  Top speed, 3 mph.  It's my favorite, but is no good when fishing big water.  The other is a 17' Bass Tracker.  Top speed, about 45 mph.  I love it, but it's a lot more expensive to operate than my raft.  Everything being equal I prefer to fish from my raft.  I hope this helps.

[kybassangler]

I know how you feel Log Mike. I just bought my bass boat and the operating costs went through the roof.  Now I mechanic more than I fish If it wasn't for the option of bigger waters I believe I would have stuck with small craft.

[TopDog]

Aluminum boat!  

[Cajun1977]

[jdw174]

I have a bass boat.  If that qualifies as a "speed" boat, then that's what I fish out of.  (You maybe ought to add/modify the choices to include bass boat )

[justfishin]

17' Express Jet Boat, Grey, Stick Steering, Evinrude 70/55 Jet Drive, 36v 85lb thrust Motorguide trolling motor, and big Kuhunas to run wide open in five inches of water while sitting up front in crystal clear water,lol.

[5bass]

Here's my speed type boat....

[FishingBuds]

looks like there some votes there, anyone know whats the other :-? its tieing with jon boat.

As for me I fish out of a jon

Thats what it looked like bringing it home, now I have it stripped down for a project but, had to wait to complete it-my pop had some chemo done(he whipped it tho, well God did it, gotta give thanks to himl)hopefully I can start it back up by the end of this month. ;D ;D ;D

[justfishin]

Nice boat FBL, my buddie sold his Skeeter last year and bought one. I love the front deck, heck, you could play basketball up front,lol. Its a pretty good ride in the chop as well. We use my Jet in the rivers and his on big water. He is running a 225 Opti ( knock on wood it has not blown yet ) and had a heck of a time finding the right prop. We fish a lot of tidal water and he wanted something to jump on top and still keep some top end going. What prop are you using for yours?

[Cajun1977]

Nice boat FBL, my buddie sold his Skeeter last year and bought one. I love the front deck, heck, you could play basketball up front,lol. Its a pretty good ride in the chop as well. We use my Jet in the rivers and his on big water. He is running a 225 Opti ( knock on wood it has not blown yet ) and had a heck of a time finding the right prop. We fish a lot of tidal water and he wanted something to jump on top and still keep some top end going. What prop are you using for yours?

thats a gambler not a skeeter ;D

[Micro]

Here's my Tracker Grizzly 1548L.  Many of the lakes I fish are limited to 10 hp, or are electric only.    When I fish an electric only lake, I take my 9.9 hp motor off and replace it with a 55 lb thrust Minn Kota transom mount.   I also fish larger tidal rivers and creeks.   I don't have the speed of the larger bass boats, or the stability on bigger waters.  But I have a definite advantage in agility and can take my boat places big bass boats can't go.  

[5bass]

Nice boat FBL, my buddie sold his Skeeter last year and bought one. I love the front deck, heck, you could play basketball up front,lol. Its a pretty good ride in the chop as well. We use my Jet in the rivers and his on big water. He is running a 225 Opti ( knock on wood it has not blown yet ) and had a heck of a time finding the right prop. We fish a lot of tidal water and he wanted something to jump on top and still keep some top end going. What prop are you using for yours?

Thats funny.....I'm fixin' to sell my Gambler and buy a Skeeter. ;D  I want a Yamaha 250 pretty bad. I have a 24 Raker on my Gambler right now. Yes, the decks on the Gamblers are the biggest you will find and the hull designs are just about the fastest hulls made, other than Strokers.

[Fish Chris]

Hey Alphawolf, that is a really sweet boat.... probably a bit bigger and faster than I need, but hey, it's aluminum, and its a G3 :-)

Hey Micropterus, that boat will allow you to catch the biggest bass on the planet. All you gotta' do is bring the boat to that fish :-) I like it.

Hey Fishin Buds, yours will work just fine too :-)

Sorry if I missed any of you with small aluminums.

Here's my "dream boat"..... No, really. I fished out of a 12 ft Montgomery Wards Seaking for 10 years, and caught so many huge bass, catfish Sturgeon, Carp, Stripers, etc, etc, it was just rediculous..... But I wanted something a little more stable, and with NO STINKING BENCHES !

So, I surfed until I found my G3 V143T. Then, I just started doing whatever I had to, to end up with it on my driveway :-)

I really do see myself fishing out of it for 10 to 15 years, until its basically worn out, then getting another very similar boat to replace it.

Nothing against high per bass boats, but they would be WAY too expensive for me to operate 140 days a year, like I do with my boat.... Plus, I have this habit of running my boat up onto the bank, in various locations, to fish from shore (great trophy bass technique.... caught 7 of my 9 DD bass this year, from the shore). Don't think I'd want to do that with a pretty, shiny high per bass boat.

If I had that kind of money, I'd spend it on a pretty new truck.

Peace,

Fish

[George Welcome]

Our clients fish out of:

20' Hewes Light Tackle

[justfishin]

The Skeeters are sweet too Fivebass. George, my fishing buddie, had a older one and was going to keep it but, we knew a guy whom bought this Gambler 2 years ago and got sick and hardly ever used it so, my friend got a heck of a deal. The Skeeter with the Yamaha 250 sounds sweet. Yamaha makes a great engine. My other fishing buddy, Jeff, has the 250 Yamaha on his Ranger and has not had one problem with it that I know of. The lucky bugger got a free boat to run and truck because he helps run the BFL's here in the Northeast on the weekends.

[TopDog]

Hey Alphawolf, that is a really sweet boat.... probably a bit bigger and faster than I need, but hey, it's aluminum, and its a G3 :-)

Hey Micropterus, that boat will allow you to catch the biggest bass on the planet. All you gotta' do is bring the boat to that fish :-) I like it.

Hey Fishin Buds, yours will work just fine too :-)

Sorry if I missed any of you with small aluminums.

Here's my "dream boat"..... No, really. I fished out of a 12 ft Montgomery Wards Seaking for 10 years, and caught so many huge bass, catfish Sturgeon, Carp, Stripers, etc, etc, it was just rediculous..... But I wanted something a little more stable, and with NO STINKING BENCHES !

So, I surfed until I found my G3 V143T. Then, I just started doing whatever I had to, to end up with it on my driveway :-)

I really do see myself fishing out of it for 10 to 15 years, until its basically worn out, then getting another very similar boat to replace it.

Nothing against high per bass boats, but they would be WAY too expensive for me to operate 140 days a year, like I do with my boat.... Plus, I have this habit of running my boat up onto the bank, in various locations, to fish from shore (great trophy bass technique.... caught 7 of my 9 DD bass this year, from the shore). Don't think I'd want to do that with a pretty, shiny high per bass boat.

If I had that kind of money, I'd spend it on a pretty new truck.

Peace,

Fish

fishChris,

Are you kidding?  I have a whopping 25hp 4 stroke.  With a full tourney load and 2 guys, Im barely going 18mph LMFAO!

[bassboy1]

Currently I am fishing out of a 1997 12 foot Grumman vee with a 1988 Evinrude 4 horse deluxe.  It has a TM and a fishfinder, so it functions just fine.  Soon, we are gonna add a casting deck, and lots of storage, so we don't have to screw with the benches, and wont trip over our stuff.  

We are restoring a 1974 15 foot aluminum Lund fish n ski, with a 1979 55 horse Johnson.  Soon, it will be our main fishing boat for the large lakes, and the other one for the smaller lakes.

I would like to restore an old 15 or 16 foot aluminum bass boat, with about a 75 horse engine, and use that as my large lake boat, and the Lund will get used more for skiing and such.  

[fishwood]

I usually fish from my smokercraft 17ft boat, but just this past weekend I came to a realization. I took my nephew out in my canoe and we just hammered em'. I realized that when fishing in a slower craft it forces you to focus on each area more than you normally would. I think I'll pull out the canoe more often going forward.

[Taliesin]

I fish from an '06 Nitro 898 with a 200 hp Merc Optimax. Easily goes 70 mph+, but I tend to keep it around 50 to 60.

Many people might think of it as a speed boat, but it's a bass boat all the way.

It's my first boat, and I LOVE it!!!

[surfer]

14'6" McKee Craft (like a Boston whaler) with home made deck on back and small cargo hatch / deck up front.  60 HP Johnson with no reverse.  Foot steer trolling motor up front.  I like the extra weight of the fiberglass heavy hull.  It rocks slowly in chop and also handles chop at speed fairly well.  It fits my 5000 acre lake well.  I spend about $3 in gas each outing.  I don't need any thing bigger.  I just need a better layout and organization up front.

[Tpayneful]

Each time I fish in the weekly tournament on my lake, I have the oldest and slowest boat in the group.  It is a 1980 Skeeter SS-1 Fisherman bass boat with a 1977 70 HP Evinrude.  Top speed is 34MPH.  Most of the guys that fish every week have 19' - 21' Tritons or Bass Cats with 200 - 250 HP outboards.