Whaler 345 Conquest Reportedly a Fish Magnet

From time to time we receive reader mail purporting to document that one brand or another of a boat is a “fish magnet” much the same as some boats are well-known, and nearly guaranteed “babe magnets.” We discount most of these claims as merely the unfulfilled fantasies of half-crazed anglers. But this week several pictures hit our desk from a gentleman with indisputable proof that his boat – a new Boston Whaler 345 Conquest -- is a bona fide “Fish Magnet.”

That is a 55-lb (25 kg.) grouper caught in 400’ (123 m) of water in the Gulf of Mexico.

BoatTEST.com member Joseph E. Keener writes--

We caught all of these fish about 30 miles East of the Packery Channel off North Padre Island this past Summer around three oil rigs called the Ant Hills. I am also including the Black Tip Shark that we caught and brought into the boat and had shark steaks later that evening.

The scariest picture is the eel. You never know what you are going to catch. We all looked at each other and asked if it was electric and we decided to take the picture and cut the line. The Grouper weighed in at 55 lbs and was caught in 400’ of blue water. We caught all of these fish on this one day trip – Grouper, Barracuda, African Pompano, Amberjack, Shark, Red Snapper and Eel.

My boat is called “The Debra Jane” a 345 Conquest Boston Whaler, and she is a fish magnet as you can see! The whole summer was like this for us fishing the Gulf of Mexico around Corpus Christi, Texas.