Well I've bumped up my budget after 2 fishing/bow fishing trips in a co workers Tracker Grizzly 2072 cc sportsman. I'm now looking at new and the price for this boat is right at 45k with a all the lights/ deck on front and 150 Mercury. Is there another MFG that sells an equal, turnkey ready like this one? Last night was my first time bow fishing.....Im not sure why I never tried this before, its a rush!
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Every single person I'd talk to that has never bowfished thought it would be just some fun. 100% of the people I took out said it was the most fun.
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That's what I bought my boat for... I built up a bowfishin' boat from it... Way I used to look at it if you're a bow hunter and take up bowfishing, there ain't no offseason! I got started with a friend of mine from church... He had some canoes and we used to take the kids from church out on Lake Houston bowfishing in those canoes... I ended up getting really hooked on that! Bought the boat, n built 'er up with lights, genny, rigged out 6 old vintage recurves for bowfishing, three left handed and 3 right handed and we got after those fish... No big gar in Lake Houston, but there were some monster carp and grass carp... Then one day after 2 or 3 years of bowfishing the lake, the cops shut us down! Seems the glorious City Council and our wonderful Mayor passed an ordinance against using archery equipment in a city park. They consider the whole dang lake a city park!!
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Around 2000ish I bought a grizzly 1860. Just the hull from bps. Found a trailer and found a wrecked small bass boat and used its motor, tanks, steering. I’ve built countless bowfishing boats so I did the deck myself and lights. Bought a northern tool generator and it was my favorite boat until my current. I had less than $10k in the whole set up
currently have a 20’ express cc with a removable deck I designed. I’ve removed the deck a year ago, cause bowfishing ain’t what it use to be at all. There’s 1097 air boats there now and none have a clue what damage they do. They are fired up with a record night of 14 fish….. when we killed hundreds with a trolling motor and a $2500 boat. lol.
fish just ain’t here like they use to be for whatever reasonComment
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I feel like you could get into one cheaper than 45. You just wouldn't be able to leave BPS and go shoot fishComment
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I'm not of fan of trackers. Too many proprietary parts on the boats. Controls, guages, wiring etc.Comment
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I've seen some Weldbilt center consoles that made me drool. About any aluminum boat made will be betterer than a Tracker . I had one of those 17ft pro tournaments and was constant maintenance.Comment
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You could save a lot if you would put the boat together yourself. We started out shooting fish from a bass boat with a spot light. Ended up with a 20' aluminum with a removable deck and airplane prop. I have looked at those Trackers though and it would be nice to just buy it all ready to shoot.Comment
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