When you don’t have a lot of time on your side, it’s nice to have three 600-hp Mercury Verado outboards and a 50-gallon bait well stocked full of frisky pilchards. Such was the case when I stepped aboard the Formula 457 Fish center console on a September Florida morning. Based on all the fishing features in the 457 CCF, you’d hardly expect the boat was built in Decatur, Indiana, far from mahi-mahi, striped bass or tuna. The builder has done its homework.

Read about Anglers Journal Editor-in-Chief Charlie Levine’s test-fishing outing aboard the 457 Fish here ▶