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Bass boats for marsh fishing
Posted on 4/28/16 at 8:12 pm
Posted on 4/28/16 at 8:12 pm
Any reason you don't see more bass boats in the marsh? Seems to me it would be a great hybrid between having a flats boat that can't take any sort of waves, and a bay boat that drafts a lot and has a smaller deck than say a 20 ft bass boat.
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Posted on 4/28/16 at 8:14 pm to boatless2
Go sit at Sweetwater Marina in Delacroix one morning and you'll see plenty.
Posted on 4/28/16 at 9:23 pm to boatless2
Two reasons:
1 carpet
2 crossing bays when they are whitecaping
1 carpet
2 crossing bays when they are whitecaping
Posted on 4/28/16 at 10:08 pm to WPsportsman
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Two reasons: 1 carpet and 2 carpet
I fixed it for you. Whenever we fish in the marsh the boat gets absolutely filthy with mud and muck. You simply can' keep carpet clean.
Posted on 4/28/16 at 10:17 pm to boatless2
Unless you have a jackplate it takes to much water to get on top
Posted on 4/29/16 at 12:25 am to NattyLite
Ya thats what I figured, was just curious to see what the OB had to say. Guess somebody needs to make a bass boat with no carpet
Posted on 4/29/16 at 2:04 am to boatless2
Look up an Intracoastal model bass boat
Posted on 4/29/16 at 5:18 am to boatless2
Kirkland made a bayboat and side console bassboat in similar hulls. They just did not sell a lot of them.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 6:43 am to johnnyrocket
there's an old fella at my buddies campground in leevile with a 20 year old ranger bass boat and he catches limits of reds almost every time I'm there.
as they stated carpet and getting beat to death is a reason why.
as they stated carpet and getting beat to death is a reason why.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 7:12 am to boatless2
My FIL has only ever owned bass boats and fishes leeville exclusively for reds for the last 20 years. He has an 18' Xpress bass boat and goes in every pot hole out there. Keeps a push pole for when needed and doesn't care about scratching it.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 7:19 am to boatless2
Ranger RT188 with no carpet 
This post was edited on 4/29/16 at 7:20 am
Posted on 4/29/16 at 8:07 am to boatless2
I'm still waiting for the day you boys still in LA will realize these boats they build over here in TX are more perfect for LA inshore fishing than they are in TX. They would kill it in the LA marsh system. Can run 60+, handle bay chop, and get shin deep skinny. The hole shot with the muddy bottom all throughout LA would be insane. Get up and running in a second in 8"-12" of water.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 8:28 am to Marlo Stanfield
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I'm still waiting for the day you boys still in LA will realize these boats they build over here in TX
Are you talking about those big tunnel hull scooters? I'd pay good money to see someone try to cross Eloi or Borgne in one of those things. Also the mud bottom you mentioned is the reason why deep tunnel hull boats aren't popular in La. Another reason texas tunnels are only popular in Texas is because of the popularity of wade fishing, this is why you see all those scooter deck boats running around.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 8:30 am to Marlo Stanfield
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these boats they build over here in TX
Majeks? Shallow Sports?
Posted on 4/29/16 at 8:45 am to bigbuckdj
To name a few. SCB, Dargel, Explorer, Mowdy, Schoalwater, Haynie, JH Performance, Stoner, Trans cat, etc.
Yes, a lot of those guys buy them for wade fishing but most buy them because they can get you into anything and can also handle the bays. And I grew up on Pontchartrain, The Rigolets, and Lake Borgne. Would take any of these boats across them. Not wide open throttle of course but would def cross them without worry.
Yes, a lot of those guys buy them for wade fishing but most buy them because they can get you into anything and can also handle the bays. And I grew up on Pontchartrain, The Rigolets, and Lake Borgne. Would take any of these boats across them. Not wide open throttle of course but would def cross them without worry.
This post was edited on 4/29/16 at 8:46 am
Posted on 4/29/16 at 9:05 am to Marlo Stanfield
We don't really have the need for those hulls here. The few places you can take advantage of them wouldn't be worth it. Most of the time the high horse power texas boats draw a foot of water at rest, when you get up around a foot you're in bay boat territory. It just doesn't make sense here or else you would see a whole gang of big high horse power tunnel hull scooters lined up in places like Hopedale and Cocodrie. In almost 20 years of poling the flats of Lousisiana I don't think I've ever seen a texas scooter except around Lake Charles.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 9:19 am to Barf
In the early 2000s Skeeter had started making a non-skid version of their bass boats just for the marsh crowd. I don't work for a dealer any more but I'd figure a few others caught on to this too
Posted on 4/29/16 at 9:26 am to Barf
Posted on 4/29/16 at 9:32 am to boatless2
Ranger makes a nice intercostal model. I saw bullet makes a boat that almost looks like a bass boat cross also. That bullet is a bad looking rig too.
Posted on 4/29/16 at 9:34 am to meauxjeaux2
A good friend of mine who i fish with just bought a scb like the one in the pic but black. does 88 with a 300 pro xs racing motor. I told him when we fish some tourneys this summer I wanna survive.
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