Bass boat or bay boat? Side console or center console? I'm looking for a 20ish Century, Blue Wave and Kenner type center console boats. Drug my feet on a 22 ft Kenner that was offered for 4000. When I decided I would be able to rebuild the locked up 200 hp outboard, the boat had been sold. The trailer and console would be worth almost 4 grand. oh well

You could get an aluminum v-hull. I have one for bass, trout, panfish, and crabbing in the bay for dungies. I have also used it once for the flounder in my local estuary. It has a 9.9 horse power evinrude motor, that you have to steer manually. I love it, and if you buy it used, you wll have an extra few hundred for tackle. Good luck!

If the oil spill does not get resolved, you can probably get a boat for a very good deal. The dealers in my area are going out of business at an alarming rate. Check with some of the dealers on the gulf coast that are in distress and you might a super deal.

Blackdawgz, I grew up on fish river with a 14 foot fisherman favorite built by the old man, Mr. Stauter himself down on the causeway back in 1951. At that time, he only had Negus as competition in that class of boats. His tradition is still being carried on today, but all the marine dealers around here in general are taking a beating with this oil spill. Pick up a newspaper from this area and just see all the boats for sale.

Santa:

I'm from Spring Hill from the days before Mobile annexed it.

We lived on a dirt road (McGregor Ave.) and you could go outside and shoot.

I hated when The City engulfed it.

You wouldn't recognize it now and I certainly don't belong there.

The Mall was Wragg Swamp.

People are still unaware, but the Delta has always been a carcinoma epicenter.

All the toxic wastes from upstate have settled there as farmland filled the upper bays.

People who ate those Bass all their lives and smoked all died of throat cancer.

Methylated Mercury and Halogenated Hydrocarbons ( I was in a College Chemistry Class with Stauter's Daughter).

I caught and ate them myself.

I did most of my hunting and fishing out of a 14' Bay Stauter in Chocaloochee Bay.

I don't guess I ever saw a Rhone Boat until I wuz in high school.

Wish I could afford to buy and have shipped a Cedar Point Special.

But the Columbia Gorge is death on anything except metal boats and the largest and stoutest Dawgz.

Of course, when they closed Brookley, thet wuz The End of it around there for decades.

I remember driving from I-65 all the way to Mississipi on I-10 without seeing another car.

And now, y'all are being dumped upon.

I drove across the Fish River Bridge a kajillion times while my grandfather was living on Perdido Bay.

Of course, the oysters at Bon Secour were the best anywhere.

I hate to hear of the destruction of all thet.

But you know what's going to happen when a hurricane hits thet mess.

Everybody who owns property within 50 miles is going to end up with nothing.

I'm sorry you have to endure this.

And I'm glad I'm 3,000 miles away.

It's going to end life as you know it in Baldwin County.

All thet beautiful farmland and the hunting thet goes with it is going to be a toxic wasteland.

Naten, another page out of old history is the Boston Whaler. If you find one they were the original unsinkable boat. Their adds showed the boat being sawed in half and the two halfs still floating.

if your looking for a good bass boat get a stratos with a yamaha max motor. its about as good as a ranger or a bullet