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What is the best striper fishing boat? Under 25000
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What do you think about thiscaptdave77 http://www.boattrader.com/listing/2017-sea-pro-172-102834592
Nice boat. It is perfect for lakes, bays, back country, and on the right day, nearshore fishing.
It is $25M plus tax and rigging. You will still need a chart plotter, bottom machine, and trolling motor. If you hit the boat show on Sunday, you could try to beat the salesmen up a bit and maybe get some of that thrown in.
I had a 17' Cobia I took all over Lanier and Apalachicola Bay. That size is easy to tow and launch single handed.
It's warm enough...Lake Lanier by the Dam Store this morning. White sandy beaches...I am waiting until it warms up before I get into another boat. Saving some cash for now.
Just looking for the moment.
Lake Lanier yesterday
My have times changed, lol. I remember not long ago 24' Pontoon boats with a 50hp Mercury selling new around $25,000 otd. Went to the boat show yesterday and we have 30' + pontoon boats with twin 350 Mercury's on the back for $160,000!! I guess people need 700HP to fly across the lake in their Pontoon which is kind of crazy considering most people on party barges are pretty liquored up, lol.
They had a lot of bay boats too. I was looking at all these expensive pontoon and bay boats with some of the $100,000 boats having sold signs on them and saying to myself, wow the monthly notes are low, until I saw the fine print on most of them. 10 or 20% down and 240 ( 20 years ) monthly payments! As soon as the boats leave the showroom floor the new owner will be up side down for a long time financing a new boat and let's not talk about the hit he'll take when he tries to sell it!! Oh well, you only die once, right??
They had a lot of bay boats too. I was looking at all these expensive pontoon and bay boats with some of the $100,000 boats having sold signs on them and saying to myself, wow the monthly notes are low, until I saw the fine print on most of them. 10 or 20% down and 240 ( 20 years ) monthly payments! As soon as the boats leave the showroom floor the new owner will be up side down for a long time financing a new boat and let's not talk about the hit he'll take when he tries to sell it!! Oh well, you only die once, right??
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