FlyGoddess wrote:
"I never considered cranking my motor mount bolts all the way in to attach it to the thin metal. You look at any motor mount and they are either a 1" thick piece of metal or wood. Duh.
Quoted from Scadden's site:
12.Genuine diamond plate rear decks. Huge capacity yet super light weight. Largest capacity rear decks in the industry. 13. Built in motor mounts, built right into every rear deck system.
Sorry, but I looked at all of "Dave's 30 reasons", for buying his boat over another, and never saw the statement......... "If you also reinforce the BUILT IN MOTOR MOUNTS, BUILT RIGHT INTO EVERY REAR DECK SYSTEM........with your own 2xx4....duh".
Personally, after looking at my buddy's Scadden rear deck and "Built right in, motor mount", I wouldn't have mounted ANY size motor on it, without first reinforcing with wood.
Nor, am I knocking the Scadden boats for quality, and/or, innovative designs. They're nice boats, I've fished from two models now and liked them just fine. But, no, I can't justify the price, anymore that I can justify a $700.00 fly rod......... "Because it's the latest and greatest thing, since night baseball".
As for "changes and innovations", and "what has Outcast and Bucks done, lately?" Well, not much, really!! But, then again, perhaps their customer base is happy with the equipment, both already make. Maybe they "got it right", the first time around and don't feel they NEED to play "Paris Hilton Bling", every time they need new spark plugs for their road hog. I don't know. Don't care, either.
I'm always happy to hear, that someone is sold on a product and that they really like their equipment!! It's great... it's how we all learn about new and different things in our obsession.
But, when you look at a standard spinning reel, it has perhaps, about 75 well machined, close tolerance,finally matched parts. It sells, roughly, for $79.95.
A fly reel. Hmmmm, has perhaps, 11 major, well machined, close tolerance, finally matched parts? WHY, does it sell for $279.95?
A Mastery 4 fly line sells for $54.95. Nice line, for probably 95% of the typical fly fisher's 30 to 60 feet she/he will usually be fishing.
A Shark Skin is $99.95 and 95% of those sold, I'll wager, will be used by that SAME 95%, that will do the 30 to 60 feet throws.
SO? Point? Well, "Point being, and as EVERYTHING on this fine site.... ONLY my OWN opinions........ "A Marketing Blitz Runs Through It", I think the movie was called.
Or, in other words, for those of us, that can't/won't/don't care to "justify the cost"...... fly fishing, once you're off the water and in the boardroom, is one of the greatest "gimmick sports" in the world.
Companies KNOW that most flyfishermen/women, will pay ANY price for ANY item, if it's "The latest, greatest, gooderest,besterest,neaterest, coolest, thing since THE LAST MODEL was introduced"!
"WHAT, do I want to "SEE", in an ad for a boat? Well, for sure, not Dave Scadden dressed like he wants to star in the next serial of "Die Hard IX". I don't want blonds in thongs, either. Seeing, either, doesn't tell me squat, about the quality of a company's product.
Yep, Dave owns a nice motorcycle. That's nice, but if I were going to lay down $2,400 for one of his boats, I'd surely like to know more about the boat than the fact he can afford such nice toys.
Sure, there are LOTS of "sillier ads", out there, than Scadden's, but somehow, his "tough biker image" just hits me funny considering he's tying it all into fly fishing, by also holding the rod and trying to sell 'Toon boats!?!!
We pay, what we pay, for the items we want to own, think we "NEED" and can't live without. It's what keeps the fly fishing industry afloat.
It's merely the fact, that each of us must decide how much quality we'll pay for, how much name recognition we'll pay for and how much dock side, bling, we're willing to pay for!