re: Which 25 foot bay boat???

I'd seriously consider no back deck like that Seaborn 25 has, IMO with a 24+ bay boat you want something that big to take offshore to bottom bounce and what not on nice days. You will rarely use that back deck fishing inshore, those big bay boats everyone will be upfront by the trolling motor.

But having that open cockpit area like that on that Seaborn would be really sweet for snapper, wahoo, etc. I don't know anything about the rest of the boat or company buy I love that layout.

Personally, I don't see why you'd pay that much for a do everything good but nothing great boat. I'd get a $30k hells bay for inshore and spend $60-70 on a really nice 24-29 ft dual motor center console. Heck you can get a lot of offshore boat for $70-80k.

Have you seen the back decks on the Yellowfin, Scout, etc? They are laughably small. If you have kids then a back deck is fine, but yeah if you are fishing 2-4 grown men then everyone fishes from the front if you know what you are doing. That's where the boat is facing to fish new water, I don't know how you can disagree really.