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Busy little Bee; Bumble Bee's new 180FX: great small-water/starter boat that's loaded with features.

Bass & Walleye Boats

| March 01, 2006 | Tiger, John, Jr. | COPYRIGHT 2006 Ehlert Publishing Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Last summer, Editor Steve Quinlan and I were the first to test Bumble Bee's new 180FX, the Tullahoma, Tennessee boat-builder's latest entry into the sub-20-foot bass boat market. This boat employs basically the same hull as Bee's 180 Pro V, with a brand new deck layout that's loaded with features typically found on much larger, more expensive rigs.

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Our FX test platform was rigged with a new Johnson 175 V-6, an outboard surely destined for the pages of history as it is one of the remaining carbureted two-stroke models in Bombardier's stable. Lance Cooter, who was president of Bumble Bee at the time of our test, elected to rig the ...

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