Bass Boat vs Walleye Boat

gwilber: Thanks for the straight dope. I live in Wisconsin near Lake
Winnebago -- a large, shallow inland lake that gets pretty choppy. I
definitely need a deep hull than a bass boat.

I guess they're called Walleye boats because walleye tend to hang out
in deeper water, which suggests bigger lakes susceptible to heavier
chop.

On Dec 19, 10:52 am, jshock wrote:
gwilber: Thanks for the straight dope. I live in Wisconsin near Lake
Winnebago -- a large, shallow inland lake that gets pretty choppy. I
definitely need a deep hull than a bass boat.

I guess they're called Walleye boats because walleye tend to hang out
in deeper water, which suggests bigger lakes susceptible to heavier
chop.

I live by Bonduel and work in Appleton. Chris Rennert who is on here
quite a bit fishes Winnebago for smallmouths. Good luck on your boat
search.

"gwilber" wrote in message
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On Dec 19, 10:52 am, jshock wrote:
gwilber: Thanks for the straight dope. I live in Wisconsin near Lake
Winnebago -- a large, shallow inland lake that gets pretty choppy. I
definitely need a deep hull than a bass boat.

I guess they're called Walleye boats because walleye tend to hang out
in deeper water, which suggests bigger lakes susceptible to heavier
chop.

I live by Bonduel and work in Appleton. Chris Rennert who is on here
quite a bit fishes Winnebago for smallmouths. Good luck on your boat
search.

Some bass boats will handle chop fairly well. I can run 3-4 footers at
60MPH with my Bass Cat. Its a hard ride, but safe and controllable. The
older Champions were a really good ride in Chop. I hear the newer hulls not
so much.

I suppose if one searched around there may be others. For big money you can
run a FastCat I suppose, and My Baker Custom (tunnel) handled chop about as
good as anything, and it set really low to the water when fishing.

Amyway, in general a deep V sportfishing boat or a "walleye boat" will
handle the rough stuff better and will handle bigger rough stuff. But it
will be nowhere near as fast as a pad bottom bass boat of similar length and
weight with a comporable outboard.

Might also consider a "bay boat." Its a really nice compromise between deep
V and top speed. They tend to be sold a little bigger than bass boats on
average so top speeds will be a little less than you might think, but not
pad, and they are designed for casual ocean running and out running a storm
to get to harbor safely. They typically are pretty well priced too from
what I have seen for a good size boat.






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