Center Console Boats Pros & Cons

Center Console boats have often been considered only for offshore or flats fishing. Just like everything else, they have evolved. Although Center Consoles have pros and cons, they may surprise you with how comfortable and versatile they have become. Whether you fish hard core, love to cruise and play, or need transportation on the water, this boat segment should not be ignored. In this video we will cover:

0:00 Intro
1:00 Pros of Center Console Boats
3:37 Cons of Center Console Boats
4:24 Offshore vs. Bay Boat Center Console
5:07 Current popular Center Console Brands
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[mikerentnelli]

Another cool thing in some of the newer CC boats are consoles that open up. This allows easy access to wiring and the space can be used for changing and hold a porta-pottie.

[mikeb]

As always thank you for sharing this info. It Changed the perspective i have about center console boats. With the submitted info i see more pros then cons in getting this type of boat.

[dwayneroberts]

I have only had 3 boats. One of them was a aluminum bow rider fishing boat. One was a old MFG 16' fiberglass boat and my new to me 1998 Bayliner trophy 1903 CC. I love this Trophy. Self bailing fiberglass deck wich is important in Florida when we get our daily dumping of rain and it can handle most everything our large lakes can throw at me. It's by far the easiest boat to run wires in under her deck. There are access hatches at key points in the boat that allow you to run wires or work on stuff under the deck and in the gun whales. Granted you have to be a contortionist to get to some stuff but it's doable.

[ddvette]

I see them on the great lakes, great for walleye fishing.

[geoffreywood]

Midnight Express, Nor-Tec, MTI, Cigarette and HCB. All are excellent Center consoles, which have lots of seating, small cabins, heads, and are also excellent for fishing. Then there's Intrepid, Yellowfin, Robalo, Cobia and Blackwater, which are primarily fishing boats with excellent creature comforts as mentioned above. You also have the Freeman line, which are center console catamarans that are primarily fishing, but also great creature comforts.

[cheftomsd]

Grew up on the St Lawrence River where storms come up quickly and the temperature is often cool. I can see a center console in Southern Florida where is usually warm but not in the North Country. I need weather protection.

[Leonvanbergen]

Nice vid! Funny to see the differences between us and european centerconsoles, here they have the most space for people to sit comfortably, look at for example Ranieri CC’s !

[DroneCaptain]

Good for fishing but I dislike sitting all exposed up high on a perch. Love the dual console seating where you have more lounging comfortable seats. I'm not sitting out there with the whole world to see, and if I don't have a backrest I'm out for sure

[robertbrandywine]

So for a 20, 000 acre lake a bay boat might be better if you are needing to get back into shallow areas?

[TheMrpalid]

What’s a good center console for River Catfishing?

[stingray]

Never understood why center console’s are so popular. Even as a fishing boat, I usually want to fish with at least one other person or take my family. No seating, no weather protection, what’s the point? You gonna stand all day and only fish on nice days by yourself?

[panamacitybeachbum]

Sea Vee, Yellowfin, Cape Horn, Sailfish, and Regulator are really great CC v-hull offshore boats. Nothing equals Freeman CC catamarans, IMO, for offshore duty. But... you gotta have the jack, Jack.

[Dunkolunk]

I have a key west 1720 and a
Bayliner Cierra 2355
I prefer the Bayliner for fishing the lower Chesapeake bay, CBBT, and off the coast of VB.
The key west is better on the rivers and Back River Bay

[arkadandfortuna]

In 2020, the highest selling vessels were CtrConsoles & PWCs… (I would imagine most of which were from Floridians)

[nbb]

What boat is he on? I like the casting deck on the boat. Almost like a bass boat.

[med-kq]

Surprised pilothouse boats aren't more popular. Can get out of rain and sun.

[flinthartwig]

If you set the playback speed to 1.5x or 2x it becomes bearable to watch this video.

[badkarma]

Robalo has gone to junk. Viewed two of them to find a lot of qc issues. Gel coat issues, wiring issues and striped bolts etc. sad it was a nice boat.

[PabLow-zxmr]

Driving a car on the right is ridiculous…just saying😂

[DavidHernandez-vuvb]

THUMBS DOWN BECAUSE OF WEARING THE MASK WHILE OUTSIDE WASHING A BOAT BY YOURSELF.