Linda Robinson

I have fished with Capt Traad for 8 years.  The SeaHunter 18 has a smooth dry ride. We fished 7 tarpon tournaments in the last 4 years and fished the last two in the SeaHunter. You can't pick your weather when fishing tournaments and the runs to where the fish are can be really long. It was a pleasure to ride in and fish from the SeaHunter last year.

Roger Lasich

In the year after Captain Tony Traad bought his new Sea Hunter 18, I fished with him in excess of forty days.  On those trips, we fished in calm, shallow water for tailing bonefish; we fished for permit with huge runouts clashing with twenty-knot wind; we sight-fished tarpon; we dredged them in channels and creeks; and we stalked them laid up on glass-calm flats.

Tony’s Sea Hunter, as a fishing platform, did all that we asked. However, that is not what really got me thinking seriously about purchasing a Sea Hunter.  Where, in my mind, this boat left its competitors behind was when we rounded the East Cape on afternoons with a twenty-knot northeast wind pushing a two-foot chop in our faces.  Sea Hunter got up on top of the chop and rode them like a dream, and we never got wet once in that year. When other captains and sports were forced by the weather to stay in port, Tony and I were out fishing.

I had been considering buying a flats skiff for the last year, but since I live in the San Francisco Bay area, I was reluctant to buy a boat just to use a few months a year in the Keys.  Once I saw what he-man seas the Sea Hunter could tame, I knew that it could double for my West-Coast application of fishing the San Francisco Bay and San Joaquin/Sacramento River Deltas for striped bass.  I am sure I’ll be the only flats skiff out there, but there are guides using them in New England for stripers.  Who knows, I may start a fad?  But whether or not I will ever be poling the flats of San Francisco Bay sight-fishing stripers, I do know that my new Sea Hunter will be able to handle any conditions my home water may dish out.

Michael S. Cugno, Jr.

Fishing is my lifelong passion. Being born and raised in Miami I began fishing in the canals and lakes of Miami as a kid in 1967. My first boat was a ten foot Sears jon boat with a 6hp Johnson. By 1994, after twenty sevens years of marriage and two kids, I graduated to an eighteen-foot top of the line backcountry skiff. That skiff did the job but was lacking at times in performance, quality, and greater multifunctional capabilities.

About six months ago, I saw an advertisement for SeaHunter boats in a local fishing publication. The hull design caught my interest. So, on a whim I ran by the factory on a Saturday morning. Well, after two or three hours of detailed questions by me, and those same detailed answers by Captain Greg Lynch, I knew I found something that would deliver all my needs. Over the next few weeks, I did a bit more research, stopped by the factory a few more times, watched several boats under construction, and decided all I needed was a wet test.

The boat performed to my expectations and on top of that, the crew at SeaHunter was a joy to work with. Joey was great with the rigging; Jodi and Ralph were always very pleasant and helpful, and Greg was very patient and very open to new ideas, and very detailed with my technical questions. I have owned the SeaHunter 18 now for more than four months and it is a joy to take out. The boat handles and rides so much better then my previous boat. In many ways, it is superior. The customer service at SeaHunter is just as superior as the boat they made for me.  I glad to be a member of the SeaHunter team and to say that I can call Greg, Joey, Jodi, Ralph, Tony and Charlie friends.