The Edgewater 335EX running with the Ponce Inlet lighthouse in the background.

The Edgewater 335EX up close coming in to snug up to a beach.

We fished on the Edgewater 335EX out of Ponce Inlet for the recent “Power Drifting” episode of Florida Sportsman TV, targeting red snapper and grouper.

Aboard were Roger Taylor, of Edgewater, three of his friends, Capt. Mark Rogers, myself and FS cameraman Matt Weinhaus. The seven of us had plenty of room on deck, in the helm station, and in the cabin, though we spent most of our time catching fish, and the deck wasn’t even crowded with seven of us.

It did get crowded with red snappers awfully quickly when Capt. Rogers took us to one of his hotspots.

The Edgewater 335 is a powerhouse, built for the corps of anglers who enjoy long range fishing, like trips crossing to The Bahamas from Florida, or yellowfin tuna fishing trips out of Destin or Pensacola. Designed to run and perform with twin engines only, the 335 Express can be equipped twin Yamaha F250 or F350 four-stroke outboards for reliable, fuel-efficient power.

Folks looking into this boat, whether for private use or company purposes, and who plan to put it to the long trips it’s built to make, might want to consider Edgewater’s optional electronics package from Garmin Electronics, including a 15 inch GPSMAP touchscreen chartplotter, GSD 22 remote sounder module, B164 1K transducer, GMR 24 high-definition radar, GDL 30A XM satellite weather/audio and GHP 10 autopilot.

On our trip earlier this year, the engineers were still fine-tuning shaft and prop adjustments—the boat is that new. Edgewater debuted the 335EX in January of ‘09 at the Miami Boat show. Capt. Mark Rogers, a trusted friend of Roger Taylor’s, settled in at the helm and rodeo’d the baits and ran us out fast on a pretty, slick-calm, winter day. Rogers often used the 335EX’s bow thrusters to make minute adjustments on our drifts, and no doubt they come in handy when docking the big boat.

I only wished we hadn’t turned back after limiting out on red snapper and bagging a few good grouper and instead had kept going to The Bahamas where we might have really put the boat’s cabin to use on an overnight tuna trip.