If you had a reliable service department that also did trolling motors and maybe glass work that would be a huge plus for me.  Drop it off and have all the bells and whistles worked on.  Seems like everyone recommends so many different places.


The other thing is when I was still slimer fishing a lot I wanted an aluminum boat with an outboard pump, that could fish for everything, and I mean everything.  I never really found that in a used boat and then I decided i had more fun bass fishing anyways.  But I think there could be a lot of money in multi-species if salmon runs dont ever get back to where they where.  I know down south around Longview/Kelso there are a ton of salmon fisherman and they are slowly starting to warm up to the growing bass fisherman population. 

my 2 cents