I do fish over 100 days a year, mostly in my boat but also with freinds in theirs. I have a 16 foot light aluminum prop boat (Smokercraft Lodge). I don't go out in the ocean as my inner ears are disfunctinal and I get motion sickness from just about anything. I do fish winter blackmouth in the Sound, springers at Cathlamet, kokanee at several lakes, Straits in July, B10 in August, Grays Harbor and Willapa September and October, and back to the sound for the winter. Also throw in steelheading on several large lower rivers - I can run in a foot of water on tilt with the skeg protector installed. And I spent 10 days fishing up around Port Hardy, mostly out of Telegraph Cove, last year in it. The light boat is necessary as I have to tow it with a minivan a lot - my wife has a horse trailer more or less permanently attached to the pickup most of the year. If you have a big boat you will also need a big truck. I also do a fair amount of fishing my myself. If you have a big ocean safe boat you will always need a fishing partner to help you launch and retreive it. You will also be unable to launch without a boarding float, and that pretty dramatically limits the launches you can use. I fish for results (had to puchase my second card in July and am most of they way through it already) and will hit the high percentage times and tides, often launching just for an hour of fishing at the perfect tide or to hit the first hour of daylight and limit out before work. Not real practical with a horse of a boat. I also can fish all day and run ten miles back and forth on 3 gallons of gas. Your big boat will use that much just to run back up to the head of the drift. Have to watch the weather, and have to be pretty tolerant of nasty conditions at times, but for me the small open boat puts the most fish in the freezer for the minimum amount of money and effort. <img border="0" alt="[Goldfish]" title="" src="graemlins/goldfish.gif" />