Let me preface this by saying I'm a crappie guy, fishing forward facing sonar. Looking to get a new-to-me boat in the next year or two. Bass boats are the way to go. That said, I know nothing about them, as I currently fish out of a deep V aluminum boat. The slightest hint of a breeze blows me sideways and off course, so it's not conducive to having the scope ducer on the trolling motor, which in turn, ties a hand up with a pole mount.

That said, I'm not quite sure of the wording to use to search the answers I seek without ten thousand irrelevant threads to sort through. "Stability" wasn't really relevant, as my boat has great stability, as do plenty of others, but still get blown across the water. I know some of the national (crappie) trail guys are using earlier ranger 2000s 522vx and such. Nice large heavy sled. Ride isn't THAT important, but certainly a factor. More so looking for something that isn't going to get blown around terribly bad, while focusing on singular suspended fish.

Conventional wisdom says my heavier larger V hull would sit better in a breeze than my old tracker 14ft flat bottom boat, but that's not the case, so I figure I'd throw "conventional wisdom" out and ask the experts here at BBC.