I will be visiting Guntersville in mid-October for a week to stay with a friend and do some fishing. We have a nice bass boat that will work for us, but we have two more friends that would like to come. While you can squeeze three on a boat, four is just asking for trouble.
Is there anywhere in town that rents nice bass boats? I called around to the Guntersville Boat Mart and the marina at Covenant Cove and they seem to only rent pontoon boats and jet skis.
As a reference location, we will be staying on Short Creek.
To clarify, I am looking to rent a middle of the line to nicer bass boat. The boat we have already is a nice tournament style bass boat, and we could use another one to be able to follow around the lake.
The flat bottom boats from the State Park will not work for that. I have looked around G'ville and Scottsboro but haven't been able to find a place to rent from.
Price of boat, liability insurance, etc. are all things that any rental business have to deal with. I have rented bass boats on lakes in probably 10 to 12 lakes around the country. There are lakes that do not have bass boat rentals, but that is just a business opening. The only real difference between boat rentals and car rentals is the volume of rentals, but that can be dealt with.
With that said, it is looking like there may not be a place in Guntersville that rents them. I'm starting to look in the surrounding area, but being in another part of the country and looking makes it difficult. I may have to use the "shifts" idea.