Don't have them mounted on a boat but thats the mount our electronic log books are mounted with in the trucks. 18 mounts. Rock solid and a driver hasn't damaged one since installed at least a year ago. That sir is a testament to durabilty. Some of those fellows can/will break anything.
It's a personal selection. How tall are you? Do you mostly overhand or do you just like to lob it. Trying to cast under docks, through brush, around stumps or mostly open water?
Had a fishing buddy do almost just that except it was stuck in the carpet on the upper deck when he sat by it and hooked his calf when he got up. About 8 years ago I got a mirrolure hung in a tree. I pulled the limb down with my left hand and tried to unstick it with my right. My left hand...
Loved flounder gigging in tampa bay when I lived close to it. Quiet out there without worries of getting sunburned and just all the other neat stuff you would see in the water at night.