baitcaster
Active Member
As far as the flake, yes it adds some weight, but it if made that much of a difference, why in the heck will a Bullet and Stroker run as fast as they do.
Personally, I really think the smaller companies such as Allison, Bullet and Stroker should consider bring back, making or continuing to make 18 and 20 footers. Allison in my humble opinion should make the 2002 and 2003 a little more "fisherman friendly", so to speak (a little re-vamping - maybe even some flake strips), but keep the hulls going. They were in large part their bread and butter and a boat that can be amply powered with a 200 hp motor. None of the boat companies (with the exception of Stroker) made it from the beginning with these large supper high dollar bass boats. To me it seems that they forgot their roots and who actually buys their boats. It is the middle class sport fisherman, who as Catfish said can't afford or it doesn't make sense to spend what one could pay for a home on a boat. Quite frankly it hacks me off when I think about the future of the bass boating industry and if my son will ever know the pleasure of boating when he is a young adult and on his own trying to support a family.:soap box:furious:beating dead horse
Personally, I really think the smaller companies such as Allison, Bullet and Stroker should consider bring back, making or continuing to make 18 and 20 footers. Allison in my humble opinion should make the 2002 and 2003 a little more "fisherman friendly", so to speak (a little re-vamping - maybe even some flake strips), but keep the hulls going. They were in large part their bread and butter and a boat that can be amply powered with a 200 hp motor. None of the boat companies (with the exception of Stroker) made it from the beginning with these large supper high dollar bass boats. To me it seems that they forgot their roots and who actually buys their boats. It is the middle class sport fisherman, who as Catfish said can't afford or it doesn't make sense to spend what one could pay for a home on a boat. Quite frankly it hacks me off when I think about the future of the bass boating industry and if my son will ever know the pleasure of boating when he is a young adult and on his own trying to support a family.:soap box:furious:beating dead horse