re: Boat recs

If your fishing in Port A area I'd suggest a Cat hull. Lots of shallow grass flats around there and you'll be you'll be doing a lot of putting around in a v-hull trying to get to deeper water to jump up. Plenty of pre-owned locally made boats that are made for the area, Shallow Sport, TransCat, Shoalwater, Majek, and Haynie. IMO the quality is in that order, a big issue with the back half of that list would be with the quality of the rigging, you'll have to get down under the console and in the bilge area to see what the wiring looks like. Lots of pro staff guide boats that are a year old come up for sale this time of year, it's a 50/50 crap shoot on those, the good thing is they will have warranties on the engines. That is my area down there, let me know if I can help out further when you get closer to pulling the trigger.