17 EVOx Review with Captain Rick Hilliard
On the water with Captain Rick Hilliard of Weird Water Charters, walking through his 17 EVOx after a full season of real guide use in the Mosquito Lagoon.
Rigged with a Suzuki 60, a classic Ghost side console, a Marquesa Marine casting platform, and guide-driven setup choices throughout, this craft gets fished the way it was meant to — day in and day out.
Nothing beats feedback from the people who run them for a living.
Captain Rick Hilliard runs this 17 EVOx daily for light-tackle and fly charters in the Mosquito Lagoon, and after a full season calls it the lightest, shallowest skiff he's fished. Built full carbon-Kevlar with a slim side console, an oyster hull over an ice blue cap, and a Marquesa Marine casting platform, it runs a Suzuki 60 with trim tabs and no jack plate. He's floated it in ankle-deep water and found it dry even in two-foot seas off Louisiana.
Taken from the walkaround — what Kevin points out on the boat.
Fishing Mosquito Lagoon · Louisiana
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