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James- You guys just created my dream boat. I fish a little of everything and have struggled with a boat design that fits well. This new boat is perfect. I can comfortably fish smaller local lakes for bass, walleye, northern, etc yet there’s storage for long trolling rods, and a big enough dance floor behind the cockpit to battle Salmon on lake Michigan. I’m cetainly one of those guys that appreciates a nice casting deck on the front, but believed most boat designs had decks that were way oversized and really took needed room away from back of the boat. WHAT A NICE LOOKING BOAT!
Excellent summary TO, and it echoes my thoughts almost exactly! I hate limitations in any gear used, but with how specialized fishing has become it’s increasingly difficult to design with a one-size-fits-all approach for anything. This boat comes as close to that as anything I’ve seen, and looks versatile beyond what I thought previously was even possible. Center rod storage when first offered by some of the mfrs. seemed revolutionary, until you were trying to move from point A to point B inside of that boat – talk about a tripping hazard. Unless they mounted the storage flush with the back of the front deck, then you had a far too-large front deck. Shorten it and you lose long-rod storage. The MX has it right, as you typically want big-water, trolling, or esox rods in a separate area anyway. This way it keeps both the boat/rod storage more ergonomic, and keeps your gear better organized too.
Someday this boat will be mine, and I can’t wait to push it to each end of its limits. FINALLY a true multispecies boat that doesn’t compromise fish-ability for performance!
Joel
