[willy]

Tin got to tell ya, being a two boat owner for years I understand. But there is no boat that does it all well, everyone has to compromise something. Down here in Barnegat Bay, which is a huge and beautiful fishery they have a lot of what I would call flats, shallows that go for miles with all the assosisiated feeder streams and rivers. It's a fly fishermans dream and several guides targeting several species up to sharks there. The waters are tidal of course and two foot water becomes an island in some places quickly.My point being even an average shallow draft CC has problems in these areas and most of the guides are running the skinny water flats style boats and when working clients in the channels and inlets they are in a CC. Cause you don't want to be in a Panga with clients especially when the inlets do their daily wind/tide shifts.

That being said if you really want one boat to do both well you can't do it with a mono hull there is a boat that does both well, very well and that is a cat boat of one design or manufacture or another. When I was in Florida I saw these being used a lot by guides and we are seeing a bunch here in Jersey also. Shallow draft, very stable at sea, incredible ride and wide decks for fishing. There are enough out there where you can pick up used ones for a good price. If down the road when I hit the lottery and I want my one all around boat/new it will be a cat boat. I've been on two at sea and there reallyis nothing like them for ride and all around fishing performance JMHO