All I can say is don't knock the pontoon until you have tried it. My father-in-law lives on Lake Conroe and bought a tri-toon. I was giving him a hard time about it until I fished off it.

That thing is absolutely the best ride you could hope for in rough water. Water conditions that will rattle your teeth in a bass boat just give the pontoon boat a gentle sway. There is also a ton of room as you can fish from anywhere in the boat. The only drawback really is the top speed is around 35 to 40 mph. That and the stigma of piloting a pontoon boat.

For what its worth, I think the Abu REVO is about as sexy of a reel as you can get.

Oh I'm not knocking pontoon boats by any means! I'd love to have one for taking friends out on the lake for a day of sunning, fishing, and just having a good'ol time. But knowing that any boat we purchase will be 90% fishing for me, and 10% having fun on the lake with family/friends, a bass boat is probalby my best option. She really likes the Lowe boats shown in the Cabelas 2008 Master Fishing catalog I just got this week. I'm crossing my fingers and praying... (my b-day is in one month!)

Honestly, I fly fish and have only used a spinning rod or baitcaster 2 or 3 times in the past 3 years...but those American Rodsmith "Pink Lady" rods almost make we want to put away the fly rods just so I can justify having one!

Luckily though I have enough pink in my life...

i saw a pink ugly stick at bps

The ARS Judy Wong rod and other models are on clearance at Academy for $69.88 or there abouts......If they weren't pink/purple I'd be all over them, they feel great.

Finally, a woman who understands fishing. (I hope this works - I have never posted a photo on here before.)

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Sorry, it didn't work. I just learned to use photobucket for my other fishing forum. Note: this was the photo of a gal fishing in a thong bikini, with a can of Bud Lite stuck in her g-string. Cute photo.

I've seen that picture before... got it hanging on my man's room wall

Well I took the wife to West Boats (Mesquite, TX), Bass Pro, Academy, and Cabelas this weekend to look at boats and rods for her. We settled and agreed to save and put a nice down payment on a bass tracker from BPS (looked at 4-5 different kinds of aluminum hulled boats) for late this year or next winter/spring. As far as rods go, she didn't like the "female" ugly sticks becasuse... and I quote... "They don't have enough pink on them." In fact, she didn't like ANY of the rods we looked at because they only have pink highlights and are not a SOLID pink color. The only one she was even remotely interested in and ultimately decided for me to go back and get her one this weekend was a bait cast combo from Academy made by (spelling?) Flugerville, Flugemeister? (Some weird name that starts with a F). She liked this combo because the rod had some gray and pink to it... but the main reason... it had a pink and gray reel she thought looked really great.

At least I can say that my wife likes to fish and is encouraging me to finish my bass jon so we can get on the water. I may get really frustrated with her for picking via color and not performance, but I keep my mouth shut because I got the green light for a boat for next year!

She did by the way get really excited about a bass club she found out about. On all the boats at BPS, there were these pink flyers about an all women's bass club based out of Dallas and she is 100% gung-ho about it! She's already got visions of getting sponsered and running now on the Bass Master's Tour, with yes... a PINK boat and PINK truck to pull it with.