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 Best Overall Flats Skiff? | 8:12 PM 2/12/2003 | |
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What cha think? Remember I said OVERALL. Skinny water, poling, dry ride, room, fit n finish, rough water, price, value, resale, etc.I'll do another one for Bay Boats too.
[Modified by lunkerhunter, 1:53 PM 4/18/2003]
Online Poll » Results
| Mitzi (22%, 52 votes) |    | | Hells Bay (13%, 30 votes) | | | | Action Craft (9%, 22 votes) | | | | Hewes (8%, 20 votes) | | | | Maverick (6%, 15 votes) | | | | Back Country (5%, 13 votes) | | | | Dolphin (4%, 11 votes) | | | | Egret (3%, 9 votes) | | | | Shipoke (3%, 7 votes) | | | | Savage Creek (3%, 7 votes) | | | | Maverick HPX (2%, 5 votes) | | | | SCOUT BOATS (2%, 5 votes) | | | | ranger (2%, 5 votes) | | | | Stealth (1%, 4 votes) | | | | SilverKing (1%, 4 votes) | | | | Pathfinder Tunnel (1%, 3 votes) | | | | Release (1%, 3 votes) | | | | Sea Fox (1%, 3 votes) | | | | starcraft aluminum 12 footer (0%, 2 votes) | | | | One that's paid for! (0%, 2 votes) | | | | mitzi (0%, 2 votes) | | | | Custom built (0%, 2 votes) | | | | Sterling (0%, 2 votes) | | |
(228 total votes)
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (lunkerhunter) | 8:38 AM 2/13/2003 | |
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Why can't we add choices?
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (drmatt18) | 10:40 AM 2/13/2003 | |
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sorry Matt. didn't know you could do that till later. maybe a moderator can edit it i dunno.
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (lunkerhunter) | 10:58 AM 2/13/2003 | |
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mine 
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (RUSTYFAN) | 11:14 AM 2/13/2003 | |
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No, Rusty, it's mine.
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AKA ~ ShalloWateReds"So I'll build me a boat, with these two hands. It'll be a fair curve from a noble plan. Let the chips fall where they will. 'Cause I've got a boat to build."
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (lunkerhunter) | 1:29 PM 2/13/2003 | |
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dude, you've got these polls everywhere!
It's all fun and games.........until someone looses an eye!
 
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (RUSTYFAN) | 1:30 PM 2/13/2003 | |
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RUSTYFAN, any updates on the boat? Hows the new lower unit working out!
It's all fun and games.........until someone looses an eye!
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (lunkerhunter) | 9:09 PM 2/13/2003 | |
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Define "skiff"? To me my AC is a Flats Boat - which comes between a true Skiff (stripped down to go super shallow) and a Bay Boat (that handles rougher waters). Guess this means we need another poll - John
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (JMII) | 1:22 PM 2/16/2003 | |
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anyone have any info on a backcountry
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (lunkerhunter) | 9:43 AM 2/17/2003 | |
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action craft
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (Waterrazor) | 1:08 PM 2/20/2003 | |
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Waterrazor
New lower unit is fine but the 70 just aint enough hp for her going to a 115 this week hopefully
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (RUSTYFAN) | 8:55 AM 2/21/2003 | |
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MIne goes in the ocean with mamma in a cushioned set, with a dry inside, goes in the shallows with mamma, money goes in my pocket with a fuel efficent fourstroke small block forty horse and has no payments and fills the freezer with about six months worth of fresh fish during fishing season.
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (lunkerhunter) | 12:56 AM 4/8/2003 | |
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anyone else?
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (lunkerhunter) | 4:55 PM 4/8/2003 | |
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Action Craft... great ride, well thought out.. was initially interested in a Hewes, but went with the AC after reading rave reviews on the Forum... Excellent quality..
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (Shallow Minded II) | 10:09 PM 4/10/2003 | |
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Sorry you guys...mine is best.
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (Graphix Guy) | 1:58 PM 4/11/2003 | |
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for my kinda fishin Im looking forward to my new lake n bay. 7 more weeks...
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (Fishiest1) | 9:33 PM 4/11/2003 | |
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The real answer is: "The one you take out every weekend" 
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (Graphix Guy) | 11:20 PM 4/11/2003 | |
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The price is steep, but Egrets are the best flats boat out there.
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (Linesider5) | 1:44 PM 4/15/2003 | |
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The correct answer is the one I'm catch'n fish out of at the time .
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (Signal20) | 3:24 PM 4/15/2003 | |
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for open waters around my area ill take my action craft but if i were down in the everglades or the keyes, it would be the smaller AC or a hells bay. i wouldnt want a hells bay in my area, and i wouldnt want my 20' AC down there.
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (ac2020) | 5:19 PM 4/19/2003 | |
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Alright guys. Who voted for sea fox? 
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (lunkerhunter) | 11:55 PM 5/1/2003 | |
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It's rigged!!
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (Flagman) | 8:45 AM 5/2/2003 | |
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18' Action Craft
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (lunkerhunter) | 8:32 PM 5/3/2003 | |
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Action Craft 1820, I wish it drew a little less water but it is a great flats/family boat compromise
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (Blackeyed Pea) | 6:10 PM 5/4/2003 | |
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Definately not the one I own!
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (riverrider5) | 11:13 PM 5/4/2004 | |
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btt
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (lunkerhunter) | 1:11 AM 5/5/2004 | |
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renegade skate
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (Fishiest1) | 7:23 PM 5/9/2004 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by Fishiest1 » | | for my kinda fishin Im looking forward to my new lake n bay. 7 more weeks... |
Something your not telling us wally?
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (doubledUP) | 12:42 AM 5/10/2004 | |
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so a mitzi is a better is better than hell's bay.......... 
   
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (Linesider5) | 12:50 AM 5/10/2004 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by Linesider5 » | | The price is steep, but Egrets are the best flats boat out there. |
I have to agree with you. Scott Flanders did a great job with the boats. Although Hell's bay boats are perfect. The only bad thing I can say about them is the price tag.
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (gssk7179) | 10:42 PM 5/10/2004 | |
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To me, considering I can buy 3 Mitzi's for the price of one Hells Bay, and they'll do anything the HB will do, yeah, they're better.
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (chuckd132) | 12:08 AM 5/11/2004 | |
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I'm with you Chuck. I seriously looked at Hells Bay and I just cant see where they can do ANYTHING that my Mitzi can't do??? They are really nice boats, but they carry a ridiculous premium price ... Oh well, to each his own ...
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| | 6:19 PM 5/11/2004 | |
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Wow,......... Dusky didn't even make the list. Oh Well...........
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (lunkerhunter) | 10:11 PM 5/11/2004 | |
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The best skiff ever is not ready just yet. wait till the end of the year...surprise, surprise. Just kidding guys but there's something huge cooking now that will make the competition gets ever better, more choices. I can't tell the name of the boat buider for now, sorry 
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (Linesider5) | 3:45 PM 5/13/2004 | |
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| Quote, originally posted by Linesider5 » | | The price is steep, but Egrets are the best flats boat out there. |
This guys knows his stuff
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (Luther) | 8:55 AM 5/14/2004 | |
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luther,if you have not already you can check my thread on shallow water boats i think its calld please help back country boats.. i got some pretty good info on them from the forum... 
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SilverKing before they moved the operation to Miami and killed the operation due to quality. I love my Punta Gorda Boat.
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| | 5:08 PM 6/1/2004 | |
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Hells Bay. Glades Skiff. Mitzi is fine, but Glades is skinnier. Skinnier even than ME! And THAT is skinny, folks. My boat goes 3 inches.
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| Re: (Thresher) | 9:33 PM 6/2/2004 | |
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Mitzi over hellsbay??? The only thing Mitzi can do that a hellsbay can do is get in shallow water.As for as fit n finish its 2 different worlds.
MITZI'S ARE GREAT BOATS BUT ARENT IN THE SAME LEAGUE AS HELLSBAY.
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| Re: Best Overall Flats Skiff? (RC51_Texas) | 9:37 PM 6/2/2004 | |
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RC51_Texas:
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