I've loved to fish as far back as I can remember, and tried to keep some kind of boat. all my Adult life. I kid you not, as a teenager two of my friends and myself, we cut the top off an old car and used the top turned upside down for a boat, we nailed bucket lids on tobacco sticks for paddles. and besides that I've had 10 ft, 12 ft, and 14 ft flat bottom boats with electric trolling motors and loved fishing out of them in the river. got my first real bass boat in my early twenty"s and have had some kind ever sense. don't get to use it as often as I would like, but can"t imagine not having a boat, to go when I get the need to set the hook on one.