ABOUT 16 YEARS AGO, Paul Guard, the founder of Action Craft boats, called and said he was selling the company and had a 17-foot skiff that he could sell me cheap. I had been running Action Crafts for years, and he gave me a great deal, so I bought the boat. I paid $16,000 for it, and I’ve been running it ever since.
I fish Mosquito Lagoon, the Indian River and along the Space Coast in central Florida, and my 17-foot, 2-inch Action Craft is ideal, especially its stability. A lot of the clients I take out are older, and they can fish comfortably in my boat without stumbling. It’s really stable and has wide gunwales, so you can easily walk from bow to stern. Newer, lighter poling skiffs aren’t…