Ive been running a Cougar FTD for a little over two years now and its a pretty darn good boat. The boats Ive had prior have been dramatically different rides, but I really like my Cougar. Im also not one of those folks who think just because its what I have its the best there is. I dont need to do that to feel good about myself. It is a great boat. Even when I have had real issues BCB has been so responsive as to make them almost totally non-issues. By comparison I have had two other glass boats. an 18 Skeeter Starfire, which was a beater when I bought it, and a 20 Baker Custom Tunnel. Not much can smooth out the ride in light stuff better than that Baker, but I would never have trusted it to run 3-4 footers at high speed. Any boat except maybe a larger sportfisher will beat you up in that size wave action, but I trust the Cougar to get me there and back in that. Last year I ran nearly 60 miles at WOT in stuff like that in a tournament in order to fish a spot I had found in practice, and make it back to the weigh in on time. For my 4×4 of boats I run a totally flat bottom 16 jon boat with a 50horse. Its what I use to explore backwater channels, and run the river during low water conditions in the winter, but on pad that FTD doesnt actually draw a lot more water. The big difference is I can drag the tin boat off a bar. The cat is heavy. If it hangs up on a sandbar I have to wait for help, and of course sometimes the few inches of difference does make a differnce. At slow speed stuff though its sits as deep as any big boat, and some channels it just wont make it up. Anyway, after 2+ years and the removal of the rose colored glasses I find that its still a good boat. –Bob La Londe Forums, Free Lures, Product Reviewswww.YumaBassMan.com CNC Molds N Stuffwww.CNCMOLDS.com
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