Indiana is a lot like it is here, we were a manufacturing state and we had a lot of good jobs but everything left. When we go to Tuesday night Tournaments you'll get 40 boats, out of those there will be 2 or 3 that are new or 3 years old at most, then maybe another dozen that are in the 5 to 7 year range and the rest are made up of boats 10 years old and up. Now here in my state the lake fishing is horrible, all the fish commission worries about is the trout stocking, but we have the Juniata, Delaware, and the mighty Susquehanna which is a world class smallmouth fishery and you see some newer jet boats but most of those are guides. I talked to a guy at a boat dealership, he has 6 boats in the show room and he said if it wasn't for service and parts for all the boats in the area he would be closed, he sells 3 to 5 Aluminum boats a year but 1 fiberglass bass boat, 2 if he is lucky and 3 if there is a guy with a trade-in, and this is in an area that Cabelas put in a super store because of the avid outdoors people we have here. The guy that owns the shop told me that to get a decent bass boat you're looking at 40K, 20K will get you in one but you'll have bare minimum everything, not many have that kind of scratch anymore. Range finally realized the declining sales and are now making Aluminum boats as well.
