I've got a 20 year old glasstron 175sx with a 115hp 2 stroke outboard....there are definitely times where I wish I had a comparable aluminum.....but I will give fiberglass a lot more credit as well. We travel a lot to fish....thousands of km a year....and fish everything from big water lakes like Cold Dore LA Plonge etc ....to pothole lakes in Saskatchewan and north eastern Alberta. Everything about the boat has held up beyond expectations. I beach it everywhere (within reason)....I've hit a few pieces of floating timber over the years....and I've learned the fiberglass boats are definitely a lot tougher than given credit for.
That said if all I was fishing were small to medium size lakes or up in the shield....I'd probably go aluminum.
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