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Looking for a New Fishing Boat? Check These Out

Florida Sportsman's Boat Buyers Guide: The best new crafts for 2025.

Looking for a New Fishing Boat? Check These Out
Florida Sportsman's Boat Buyers Guide 2025.

What type of fishing boat best fits your budget, your lifestyle and your fishing goals. Take a look at these new boats designed to get you to the fish in freshwater, inshore and offshore.

KAYAK

Hobie 2025 Pro Angler 14

Hobie Pro Angler Kayak.
Hobie 2025 Pro Angler

A kayak is a boat? For sure it is! One of the major kayak manufacturers, Hobie, recently released an updated model enhanced to accommodate bow and stern motors, battery storage and wire management. The rotomolded polyethylene 2025 Pro Angler 14 continues to provide the full range of propulsion and feature set consumers are used to in the Pro Angler series. Also available in 12-foot models, and in both 180 and 360 MirageDrive configurations.

  • LOA: 13' 8"
  • Beam: 38"
  • Weight: 144.5 pounds fully rigged
  • Power: MirageDrive 180 pedal drive; paddle; motor options sold separately
  • Base price: $4,799

FLATS BOAT

Maverick Mirage 17 HPX-S

Maverick Mirage 17 HPX-S
Maverick Mirage 17 HPX-S

One of Maverick Boat Company’s specialized poling skiffs, the Mirage 17 HPX-S edition is designed to float in 6 inches, but also run the chop out to oceanside flats for tarpon and more. “It’s light and spins fast on a pushpole, so we can get in front of fish,” says legendary Florida Keys guide Capt. Rob Fordyce. “Driest hatches I’ve ever seen. Fuel economy, roomy, quiet…”

  • Length: 17' 8"
  • Beam: 6' 2"
  • Draft: 6"
  • Weight (approx. w/engine): 1,175 pounds w/F70
  • Fuel: 19 gal
  • Deadrise: 1 deg
  • Max HP: 70
  • Base price: $69,717 w/Yamaha F70LA

BASS BOAT

Skeeter ZX200M

Skeeter ZX200M bass boat.
Skeeter ZX200M

Contemporary features and classic design of a southern bassboat are on display in this price-leading model for Skeeter. Carpeted decks, hot-foot throttle pedal, Minn Kota Fortrex Trolling Motor and Humminbird Helix electronics are all standard.

  • LOA: 19'6"
  • Beam: 95"
  • Draft: 16"
  • Weight: 2,020 pounds w/power
  • Fuel: 36 gallons
  • Max HP: 200
  • Base price: $61,595 w/VF200LB

SINGLE ENGINE CENTER CONSOLE

Sailfish 232 CC

Sailfish 232 CC fishing boat
Sailfish 232 CC

A new model from Sailfish in the popular single-engine trailerable center console class. Highlights include port and starboard transom boarding access with built-in swim platform, chaise-style bow lounge seats, full-height windshield, twin 10-gallon livewells, carry-on cooler with slide, and more.

  • Length: 23'
  • Beam: 8' 6"
  • Draft: 18"
  • Weight: 5,065 pounds (wet with engine)
  • Fuel: 108 gal
  • Base price: $102,364 w/Suzuki 200 HP

BAY BOAT

Skeeter SX221

Skeeter SX221 fishing boat.
Skeeter SX221

Versatile proportions and layout for running to remote backwaters and casting lures or live baits to anything from reds to tarpon to largemouth bass. Twin livewells, leaning post with storage and 45 qt. Engel cooler, removable windshield and Skeeter’s limited lifetime structural warranty (10 years transferable).

  • Length: 21'6"
  • Beam: 98"
  • Draft: 10"
  • Weight: 2,300 pounds w/power
  • Fuel: 46 gallons
  • Max HP: 200 hp
  • Base price: $63,100 w/F150XC

HYBRID BAY/OFFSHORE

Contender 29 Bay

Contender 29 Bay fishing boat
Contender 29 Bay

Fish far, fish shallow: Maybe you can have it all? Contender, a leader in building offshore and bay boats for Florida fisheries and beyond, debuted this new model at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.

  • Length: 29'
  • Beam: 9'6"
  • Draft: 16-18"
  • Weight (loaded): 7,200 pounds
  • Water: 25 Gal.
  • Deadrise: 15.5 DEG
  • Fuel: 185 Gal.
  • Max HP: 700
  • Base price: $239,000 w/power

MULTI ENGINE CENTER CONSOLE

Cobia 265 Open

Cobia 265 Open fishing boat.
Cobia 265 Open

Offshore fishing platform with lux touches. Forward seating, yes, but also space to walk completely to the bow. Helm accommodates two 16-inch flush-mounted screens, under integrated hardtop with tempered glass enclosure. USB outlets, clever storage all around. Thirty gallon livewell and twin 46-gallon fish boxes.

  • Length: 26' 5"
  • Beam: 9' 5"
  • Draft: 21"
  • Weight: 6,450 pounds (approx. w/power)
  • Deadrise: 21 deg.
  • Fuel: 161 gal.
  • Max HP: 500
  • Base price: $170,433 w/twin Yamaha 150XSA

Robalo R300

Robalo R300 fishing boat
Robalo R300

Long-range family fisherman with bonded electric folding front windshield and side windshield glass. Fiberglass console door. Twin aft insulated fish boxes (70 gal. each) with overboard drains and discharge pumps. Electric transom seat folds flush into transom wall. Freshwater system with overhead shower in hardtop. Twin bow insulated fish boxes and twin insulated livewells (28 gal. each).

  • Length: 30' 6"
  • Beam: 10' 6"
  • Weight: 9,000 pounds w/twin 300s
  • Fuel: 280 gal.
  • Max HP: 700
  • Base price: $247,995

Stingray 253CC

Stingray 253CC fishing boat
Stingray 253CC

Good example of the family amenities being built into the popular twin-engine 25-foot class center console, a proven size range for offshore fishing. Comes with fiberglass hardtop, enclosed head, pressurized transom shower (great for diving or just cooling off) and more.

  • Length: 25' 3"
  • Beam: 111"
  • Draft: 18"
  • Weight: 5,600 pounds approx. w/t win 200 HP
  • Fuel: 128 gal.
  • Max HP: 400
  • Base price: $165,957 (w/twin Suzuki 150)

Dusky 33

Dusky 33 fishing boat.
Dusky 33

Proven ventilated step-hull design and all-composite, hand-laminated hull for long-range performance and long-term durability. Available in an array of power configurations (deck layout and fishing accessories, too) but perhaps most popular with twin outboards mounted on the Dusky Drive.

  • Length: 33'
  • Beam: 10' 10"
  • Draft: 20”
  • Weight: 7,000 pounds
  • Fuel : 250-322 gal.
  • Max HP: 900
  • Base price: $230,000

CATAMARAN

Caymas 34CT

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Newest model in the Caymas lineup, with Ride Dynamic Ventilated Stepped semi-asymmetric hulls and aggressive bow flare. The 34 CT contains six insulated and plumbed storage boxes connected to macerator pumps. With two storage compartments forward, two mid-ship, and two in the cockpit floor, you can choose the space for storage versus fishboxes. A 65-gallon transom livewell is standard, with options to add two 25- gallon livewells, as well as plumbing the two after insulated storage boxes as livewells, for a total of five bait tanks all fed by a Hooker sea chest and Hooker electric pumps.

Recommended


  • Length: 34' 3"
  • Beam: 10' 10"
  • Draft: 27" (engines up)
  • Weight: 11,800 pounds w/o engines
  • Fuel: 436 gal.
  • Max HP: 1,000
  • Base price: $449,995 w/twin Mercury 400 Verado

  • This article was featured in the December-January 2025 issue of Florida Sportsman magazine. Click to subscribe.



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