New and Used Bass Boats for Sale

Bass boats are compact, lightweight, and fast boats of modest size, designed for bass fishing. They’re constructed of aluminum or fiberglass and offer a stable platform from which to fish recreationally or competitively. Conduct a search for new or used bass boats for sale and refine it by location, budget, or brand.

Main Characteristics

Bass boats are unique in that they’re designed for the specific activity of bass fishing. Unlike other more versatile multi-species fishing boats, everything about their design and construction is focused on giving the best bass fishing experience, from their expansive casting decks (and therefore forfeited seating) to their low profile. 

Bass boats are very fast, allowing them to get to the best fishing grounds quickly, as well as having the shallow draft needed for fishing in lakes, streams, and rivers.  Most bass boats are built from aluminum, which is strong and easy to repair, while more high-end models may be built with fiberglass. Bass boats offer a stable platform from which to fish and are lightweight, compact, and easy to launch.

Types of Bass Boats

Aluminum Boats

Most of the bass boat market is made up of aluminum models because the material lends itself well to the tough sport of bass fishing. It’s light in weight, offering more speed and easier trailerability, as well as being easy to repair if it gets dented, which is commonplace. Aluminum is also a cost-effective material, allowing manufacturers to build strong, rugged yet lower-cost boats.

Fiberglass Boats

Fiberglass bass boats, while less common than aluminum ones, are still hugely popular and offer many benefits. Fiberglass can also be used to create a stiff, lightweight hull if built carefully, which means more speed in what is already a high horsepower-to-weight ratio boat. Professional anglers prefer fiberglass boats for their high performance capabilities, as well as their sleek appearance. The molded construction of fiberglass also allows brands to make ever more innovative hull shapes, as well as fully molded interior features such as seating benches and livewells. 

Tournament-Level Boats

Bass fishing is a highly competitive sport and professional anglers demand only the highest quality boats. While many brands produce boats that are suitable for both tournaments and recreational fishing, some models are faster, sleeker, have more casting space, and more equipment and accessories. Huge outboards will get anglers to the fishing grounds fastest, giving them an advantage over the competition. 

Electric Boats

As electric boats flood the market it’s perhaps no surprise that they are coming into the bass boat market too, although it’s still in its infancy as a market segment. Offering impressive speeds and range, they are combined with the very latest in technology, making these luxury models worth keeping an eye on.

Best Bass Boat Brands

The market is awash with excellent bass boat brands, each honing their vessels to create the optimum bass fishing machine. Rather than just building bass boats, most brands produce a whole range of fishing boats including big names such as Ranger Boats with its rugged, robust fishing boats, and Lowe Boats with a huge range of tough tournament-level bass models. 

Tracker and Lund both pride themselves on their aluminum mod-V bass boat models, which are impressively fast, while G3 Boats also utilizes aluminum in its stand-out models. Other top aluminum bass boat brands are Crestliner, which boasts a large lineup of models, Xpress Boats, and Princecraft. 

When it comes to fiberglass bass boats, brands such as Nitro with its sleek tournament-ready models, Charger Boats and its range of 17-21 foot models, and Vexus Boats (which also offers aluminum models) are big players in this sector. And while we’ve already mentioned Ranger Boats, we’d be remiss in not mentioning its fiberglass models are highly regarded.  

Many of the brands above offer tournament-level bass boats, with different models in their line-ups better suited to weekend anglers or pro-level fishermen. Other brands building high-quality tournament boats include Bass Cat, Skeeter, and Lurion Boats and its electric bass boats.  

FAQs

Why Choose a Bass Boat?

Bass boats are used for the single activity of bass fishing and are highly specialized fishing boats. They offer spacious casting decks and have large horsepower engines for their compact size. They are best suited to one or two anglers as seating is forfeited in exchange for casting deck and equipment space so they aren’t as well suited to families or multi-species fishing. 

What Are the Best Bass Boat Brands?

Many of the top fishing boat brands in the United States offer a range of bass boats including Ranger Boats, Lund, Tracker, Nitro, Skeeter, Lowe Boats, Xpress Boats, and Princecraft. Specialist brands include Bass Cat and Lurion Boats.