Thread: Anyone use a 2 man bass boat?

I fish out of one every spring when water is high and also use it in small lakes or ponds. Very convenient and weighs about 100# so I can load and unload it by myself. I got the 8' sun dolphin from Home Depot actually. $500 free shipping, added a 2.5 Suzuki and pushes it at about 6 or 7 mph which is fine by me. 30# trolling motor and battery works well. The seats leave a bit to be desired though.



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Originally Posted by Snubby

I fish out of one every spring when water is high and also use it in small lakes or ponds. Very convenient and weighs about 100# so I can load and unload it by myself. I got the 8' sun dolphin from Home Depot actually. $500 free shipping, added a 2.5 Suzuki and pushes it at about 6 or 7 mph which is fine by me. 30# trolling motor and battery works well. The seats leave a bit to be desired though.



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Cool! Looks like fun. Do you feel like you have plenty of room in the 8ft? I was looking at a 10ft because I thought a 8ft might be too cramped.

Originally Posted by Gator Bait

Cool! Looks like fun. Do you feel like you have plenty of room in the 8ft? I was looking at a 10ft because I thought a 8ft might be too cramped.

It's ideal for one, I can and have fished two from the 8 footer, but yes super cramped. The 10 footers are your best bet if planning on going with company on most outings. If I ever get a 10' I will go to a small trailer to tow it on, getting to long in the tooth to deal with the weight of that one in my pictures

Originally Posted by Snubby

It's ideal for one, I can and have fished two from the 8 footer, but yes super cramped. The 10 footers are your best bet if planning on going with company on most outings. If I ever get a 10' I will go to a small trailer to tow it on, getting to long in the tooth to deal with the weight of that one in my pictures

You got that right! I'm thinking of a 5 x 10 flat bed utility trailer. I saw one on You Tube that a guy carpeted, then put two sets of rollers on it. They came up about 1/2 the way and carpeted a couple of 2 x 8s to be level with the rollers. He could walk on the trailer, pick up the nose of the boat to the rollers, walk it back up on the trailer, and the front 1/2 of the boat sat on the carpeted "bunks". Clipped a couple of straps on and away you go! I thought it was a real slick rig!

You got a really nice boat!

I just found them on eTrailer.com. They are called "roller bunks" and this pair is 4ft long!

Originally Posted by Snubby

I fish out of one every spring when water is high and also use it in small lakes or ponds. Very convenient and weighs about 100# so I can load and unload it by myself. I got the 8' sun dolphin from Home Depot actually. $500 free shipping, added a 2.5 Suzuki and pushes it at about 6 or 7 mph which is fine by me. 30# trolling motor and battery works well. The seats leave a bit to be desired though.



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I put seat bases on mine. I can put my good seat in it. It’s helps a lot.


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Originally Posted by tcounty

I put seat bases on mine. I can put my good seat in it. It’s helps a lot.


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Mine has the swivel (universal) seat bases on the seat frames. I just been holding out until I wore the plastic ones out completely. After 4 years they are about there. I have a millennium B100 I will throw on base next spring. Just was throwing that out there that new or better seats will be needed for comfort on the sun dolphins to upgrade from the factory plastic seats that come with it.

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