[Got Stripers]

My first powerboat was a 1980's vintage basstracker tournament V-17 and after I got tired of the freshwater bass tournament crowds, I took it to the salt and fished Scituate Mass to Boston in it. Yes you had to pick your days and a good set of rain gear was a must (not a dry boat), but it was a good dual purpose boat. I even took a winter and stripped that boat to a shell and build a center console out of it and eventually sold it and moved up to a dual console Lund ProV. I'd consider that a more robust boat then the bass pro boats, but they cost a bit more.

Pictures of some old pictures of the basstracker before and after, boy that late september maine smallie trip I can still remember. We were 9 miles down lake and smallies in the 3-5lb range were stacked like cordwood in a cut the wind was blowing bait into all day. We drained the trolling motor until it wouldn't hold and then ran back to the truck to get a spare battery to stay on that bite another couple hours.