I always wanted a boat, a canoe would suffice but I really wanted a Jon boat. I found a Bass Pro catalog in a recycling center and wore the pages out reading up on them.
My mother in law bought late 80s/early 90s v hull on Marketplace for their farm as a surprise. Took it out with a local, landed 29 gills/crappie to his seven bass/larger crappie the other night.
All of my success was on a panfish magnet.