Fish and Ski Boats?

[BMURR]

I live in Western Idaho. I love to fish and my wife loves to water ski. We have a young family that I think will love both. It only makes sense that we have a boat that does both. My question is for anybody who has had experience with a Fish and Ski. Mostly I would be fishing for Sturgeon in the Snake River, Bass fishing in some of the local reservoirs, or trolling for Mackinaw, Trout and Kokanee. As far as the skiing, I'm sure we would be pulling around some tubes and a water skier here and there, but mostly fishing. I would prefer to have one that has the option of a canopy or covering of some sort to stay out of the sun. Any help on this is greatly appreciated.

Brady
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[allingeneral]

I started out with a 17-foot open bow fiberglass vee-hull with a 115HP Evinrude outboard for my family of four. It was a Sunbird 170 (manufactured by OMC). It did everything that I needed it to do...caught catfish...pulled the tube...pulled the kids on skis. It was a little under-powered to pull me out of the water on a slalom ski, but I could fight my way up behind it (I weigh 220 or so).

The 17 feet was kinda tight with 4 people on board from time to time, but for the most part, i really enjoyed that boat.

You can put a bimini top on any boat to keep you out of the sun.

Are you looking to buy something new or used? There are boat classifieds all over the internet. I have bought both of my boats on eBay and sold my first boat on eBay when I upgraded to the current 23' Sea Ray.
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