A gatortail, gatortrax, prodrive, prodigy, uncle J, deadfowl, and maybe one or two others make boats built to perform well and last a very long time. You pay more but you won't have a boat that looks like crumpled paper after a year and can't haul a buddy with you.
Been doing some research and looking at other boats out there, there is a company in Jasper Georgia called Prodigy Boats and from the looks of it are some great built and nice looking boats.
Prodigy makes nice boats and you won't hear complaints about them other than the insane price tag. Uncle J and others can build them just as nice for quite a bit less.
Don't hunt many stump fields so curious as to thoughts on whether a .125" hull out of 5086 is needed or if a .100" made from 5052 is sufficient for breaking 1" or less ice. Many boats out there with the .100 hulls but would likely have to go new to find the heavier .125" - fine with that if...
Prodigy is built near OP and there are dozens of 1 year old prodigy's and other SDs floating around classifieds because the Georgia owners realize they don't have the need for one, don't understand the maintenance required on a surface drive, and all of a sudden are upside down and in debt for a boat they don't need to shoot the minimal birds ...
Most of hunting comes in the form of inland lakes. Im stuck in between a surface drive mud boat (gator tail, havoc mst, or a prodigy) or a regular outboard on an all welded jon boat (alumacraft waterfowler 16, lowe 16, war eagle, or a havoc). I dont hunt anywhere where its gonna take a mud boat to get from the launch area to the desired hunting ...
The second option would be a 1754 or 1854 mud boat custom built by Prodigy boats with a Gator Tail mud motor. This would obviously be the best choice for duck hunting, but I'm afraid would be the worst choice for fishing.
I was wondering if any of you consider yourselves to be knowledge about the combination of mud motors and flat bottom hulls (or variations of such). Just from reading around on the forum, I have noticed that some people will say Brand XYZ is good for mud motors, but this boat and hull isn't. I'm...
I really like some of the prodigy setups but have a hard time talking myself into spending that much. One could almost buy 2 boats for the prodigy price.
Uncle J, prodigy, timber creek, and many others build far better quality custom hulls for equal to or less and with better grade aluminum, etc. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
