Chris I am by no means any sort of expert in saltwater but from my expieriences you want a boat that will run shallow and has a excellent bait well. After that if it gets you there and back you golden. Looks like that boat has a hydraulic Jackplate so you should be good there. It's aluminum and should be easily cleaned after being in the saltwater.  If you fish with live bait put a oxygen system on the bait well. The livelier the bait the better.

Chris are you going to be fishing mainly flats or do you fish the surf as well.

Tunnel boats are nice in the flats but if you are in any chop they beat the tar out of you.  Have you ever fished the port oconner area? 

I can only take the saltwater in limited amounts but it is fun. I prefer the offshore stuff and chasing the bull reds just because of the fight. Trout don't fight worth a damn but they do taste good.  I will eventually get myself a bay boat and it will be as basic as possible without a tunnel. It will have a kick ass bait well even if I have to build it myself and a power pole. Crazy not to have one of those bay fishing. 

I guess no one likes the saltwater.  When some more guys from south Texas get on here there will be more posts I'm sure. Long way to saltwater from your neck
of the woods Sinkey. 

Where in Tilden u hunt? Near choke or off of 16.

On 16.  If you leave Tilden towards Jordansten, we are only 2 miles outside of Tilden.  Our gate is on 16 on the Choke side.  If you look at an airial view of our lease.  The lower arm of Choke runs into our lease.

uh hello....anybody there...is this....uh is this the saltwater section. I signed up last week and wasnt sure how to get here.

Hey Sink say hi to Bill Dance and Rowland Martin on the bay, they gave up and went salty too. Don't ferget your dancin eel, color matic, and frog toggs

My grandfather used to soak his hemmaroids in warm salty water so get a boat with a built in ass dipping seat and you'll be set. Ahh ha ha ah ha.

For fishing the coastal bays I would look at Majek Boats.
For trout fishing in Arkansas I would look at a good canoe, kayak or waders.

Why do you need a bait well on a boat, to catch reds or specks. All you need are Zara Spooks, Jointed Rapalas or Lucky Crafts, an assortment of soft jerk baits with lead heads and maybe a Johnson gold spoon with a red trailer.