Thinkin bout gettin a boat

[BODCAW JACK]

I live near Lake Columbia in SW AR.  They have small bass tournaments every weekend with cash prizes to the winners.  I would love to have a boat so I could fish that lake.  I've looked at some of Bass Pro's boats and they don't look too badly priced.  They have a bass tracker aluminum boat with motor, trailor, and all for about $8,000.  Thats not too bad but still alot of money for an x-ray tech.  However, I got a buddy who's selling a fiberglass boat with trailor, motor, trolling motor, and all for about $3,000.  I know its a good boat that runs good but I'm a little skeptical about fiberglass.  Lake Columbia, as well as 90% of other spots I fish, is covered in stumps and trees.  So, I guess what I'm asking is, how well do fiberglass bass boats really hold up if you put 'em in the sticks?  Anybody got any feedback/experience with this?

[mpoor]

I do a lot of summer boating but I don't know about stump crawling. I would suggest looking on craigs list for boats. I have seen several pretty good looking boats for not too much money. Good luck.

[BODCAW JACK]

I'll probobly check out several sources before really getting serious.  I think I'll stick to aluminum and maybe look for something I could bass fish and duck hunt out of.  However, I've had several people tell me that they take their fiberglass rigs into some nasty stuff and never have problems so who knows!

[S.W.ARK.DUCKCMDR]

fiberglass would do you fine on lake columbia....... as long as you dont go to the east from southshore...... everything west of southshore is fine. if you put in at northshore, it would be fine too. but if you put in at beech creek.....all i can tell ya is good luck... by the way, have they got the water back up over there? cause you could just about walk across the whole lake during duck season. it was a sad... sad site...