Maverick Boat Company offers quality and value
There’s a reason educated boat buyers choose Maverick, Hewes, Pathfinder and Cobia!
People purchase boats for a lot of reasons, from day cruising to snorkeling and water skiing, there’s a boat designed specifically for your needs. Yet, of all the boat consumers, fishermen tend to be the most educated, looking for specific performance, storage and safety features to go along with a boat’s fishability.
There’s a reason Maverick Boat Company, which produces Maverick, Hewes, Pathfinder and Cobia boats, are the most popular models among anglers and their families—in a word, versatility. While being designed for running and fishing performance, all four models have features that also appeal to families wanting to take advantage of all the watersports options the southeast has to offer. This combination of family/fishing versatility is the mantra behind the boat designs, but without sacrificing the fishing features desired by hardcore anglers.
“I demand the best from my boats, from high speed performance to running in rough, choppy conditions, because I make super long runs to the fishing grounds,” explains Captain Rick Murphy, who along with his teammate Geoff Page won the 2014 IFA Redfish Tour Championship. “We may run 60 or 70 miles way across open water, and then when we get there need to fish in a foot of water, so we need a boat that can handle open water yet crawl through the shallow stuff. Fishing features like raised front and rear casting decks give us an advantage spotting fish, and when we catch them, we know the super large, high flow livewells are going to keep the fish alive all day.”
“Storage is another big concern,” said Murphy. “I need to be able to carry a large variety of lures and rods because I don’t know what the day is going to give me. There’s plenty of room for all our safety gear, tackle and rain gear, plus front and rear coolers so we can put drinks in one, and fish in the other.”
For Stuart-based Captain Mike Holliday, large, multiple livewells are essential to a successful day on the water, but a boat’s versatility is imperative to his styles of fishing and his lifestyle. Often, his trips fish inshore, nearshore and offshore, but on his down time he’s on the water with his family.
“I do a lot of live bait fishing and live bait chumming, so both my livewells are blacked out with baits all day, every day,” said Holliday. “I may be offshore in 120 feet of water live chumming in the morning, sight casting to cobia along the beaches at noon and then out on the flats in a foot of water live bait fishing snook and seatrout in the afternoon. I need a boat that can run in a variety of sea conditions, yet get up in very shallow water, and there are very few boats that can do both really well.”
“When I’m not fishing, I’m snorkeling, tubing or hanging out at the sandbar with my wife and kids. We live in Florida, probably the best state in the country for boating, so I need a boat that I can use as a hardcore fishing boat one day, and as a family fun boat the next. That’s why I’ve owned a Maverick, Hewes or Pathfinder for the last 25 years. If I did more offshore fishing, I’d have a Cobia.”
“The value in these boats is their versatility and all the angler and family friendly features that allow you to do anything you want on the water safely and efficiently. No boat does it all, but these boats not only do most of it, but do it well. That’s rare in the boating world.”