On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 01:06:14 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

You aren't going to have that much more room in this cockpit than you
would on a GB of similar size. Wayne B has a GB 49 and from what I
remember when I was aboard last year, it has a decent sized stern
section for fishing - not ideal by any stretch of the imagination, but
good enough for one or two people.

There is definitely room to fish from the back deck of either a GB42
or 49. The deck is a little higher off the water than you'd really
like to be for boarding a fish, but you can always go down to the swim
platform for that. The smaller GBs like the 32 and 36 have the aft
deck lower to the water and would be better for fishing if you had to
pick one.

Back to larger boats, there a lot of older Hatts out there at half way
reasonable prices but the operating costs are high. There are both
the classic sport fishing models with cockpits that are nearly ideal,
and there are also the so called "Yachtfish" models that combine a
small fishing cockpit with motor yacht accomodations and styling.