Sharing:Own a fishing boat.

[Susky River Rat]

@LuckyLittleFisher it’s a forward center console with a a tunnel hull. It will save my jet boot and allows me to see better out of the front to read water.

[Alex from GA]

A guy offered me a 12' glass over wood with a MK 35 Merc for $100 back in the 70s.  I fished so I bought it.  

[volzfan59]

For me, I grew up fishing and my dad had boats or canoes off and on. When I bought my first house in the mid 80’s, my neighbor was a tournament angler and a guide. He invited me to go bass fishing with him and I was hooked. Purchased my first boat, a Coleman Crawdad soon thereafter. Had some sort of boat ever since.

[flatcreek]

1971 Feathercraft v-hull aluminum 14 ‘

my dad let me use one of his Johnson motors whenever I needed it. 6hp

l bought the boat used for 350$ , later bought a used trailer for 200$.

[Bird]

I've had bass boats before and after kids.

If you have time, a vehicle to pull it and a place to store it......a bass boat is a must. 😁

[papajoe222]

My first boat purchase was the immediate result of need, pure and simple. Shore fishing is all but nonexistent on the lakes here and we all know that anglers in boats have many more opportunities to locate and catch fish than those that fish from shore.

That boat, I had it for over 20yrs. opened up a whole new world of fishing to me, I sold it to an acquaintance in 2004 and it's 1950 Johnson outboard still pushes it around the local lakes.