Small Boats For Tuna

[cape_rover]

The "dog house" if pretty well setup. What I like about this boat is

1. It has a dog house to keep you out of the sun, rain, and crap.
2. the dog house doubles as an up rigger holder. I have a buddy with a smaller boat running 3 bars off his 'green stick'.
3. You could get on top of the dog house on FAC days for sighting if you are at all athletic.
4. The bow is open to store all your crap.
5. You could mount a swivel rod holder in the bow to fight a large fish.
6. If it is <20' it will have positive floatation as mandated by the CG. You will not sink when you hit a submerged log unlike the 50' sporty' you can easily fish along side. The more floatation the better in my opinion.
7. The boat likely has a shallow draft to get you through skinny cape cod inlets.
8. You can easily trailer this boat to any location based on the wind direction. There are many quality near shore tuna locations that are protected from the various wind directions
9. It has nice low 'baby killer' gunnels to easily grab the fish.
10. If you want to be a tuna slayer the gunnel looks beefy enough to mount some swivel rod holders, especially if you structuraly tie the dog house into the gunnel.
11. You can easily beach the boat, crack a beer and grill up some tuna.
12. You are lowering the countries dependency on oil!

What this boat wont do is likely get you to the giants way offshore. The 50' sporty will be fishing giants in 6-8's on cold fall days and you will have to be content fishing for babies closer to shore.

[quakah]

I always liked the "pocket" sportfish idea. Keep looking used, never know what you'll find.

Quakah

Calyber 22

[codfishshark]

I may or may not have thrown at fish on a 22 hiliner..... keep your options open!