Bayliner Trophy 2459 Hardtop Boats For Sale

The Bayliner Trophy 2459 Hardtop is a 25-foot sports fisher built for big-water angling in cold, changeable conditions, and it remains one of the more sought-after used Bayliner Trophy boats among Great Lakes perch and troll fishermen. Produced across model years that include 1987 and 1991, the boat pairs a full hardtop with an enclosed cabin and a heavy hull that rides well in chop. The standout layout feature on many hulls is the Alaskan bulkhead with a door, which lets you sit at the dinette, eat lunch or play cards while trolling and still step out to land a fish in pouring rain before getting back out of the weather. With cabin heat running, it works as a year-round Bayliner Trophy fishing boat.

Power on the Trophy 2459 comes from a MerCruiser V8 turning an Alpha sterndrive, with the 5.0-liter engine fitted to some boats and the 350 to others. A kicker bracket and full swim platform support trolling and downrigger fishing, and a drop-step boarding ladder makes reboarding easy. Trim tabs are standard equipment for managing running attitude on this heavy hull. One well-kept 1987 example carried only about 600 original hours, having spent most of its life on the trailer rather than moored in a slip.

The helm runs full instrumentation alongside marine electronics geared to serious fishing. Equipment seen on these boats includes a Garmin 152 GPS chartplotter, a Garmin 300 color fish finder, a Uniden Solara VHF radio, and radar on hardtop-equipped units. The galley side of the cabin is fitted with an electric and gas stove, a microwave, a small sink and an ice box, making the boat self-sufficient for long days offshore.

The cockpit is built around fishing. A pair of Captain's chairs mount on the engine box and flip up so you can fish from them, while two flip-up swivel seats at the stern let anglers sit facing the port or starboard side, a setup that suits perch fishing with someone working each rail. A fitted cover snaps over the rear seating for inclement weather. Insulated fish boxes sit down in each side of the cockpit, and many boats have been rigged out over the years with added rocket launchers, live wells and bait wells, downriggers, a bow pulpit and a windlass anchor.

Below, the cabin sleeps several with filler cushions that convert the dinette, a forward berth and a roomy quarter berth that runs well aft under the cockpit. A porta-potty handles the head. Buyers looking at used Bayliner Trophy boats for sale should focus on hull and gel coat condition, since these hulls can show stress fractures from hard pounding or hot-and-cold climates, though clean trailer-kept examples can be found completely crack-free. The boat is about as large as can be legally towed on the road in North America and typically comes on a tandem-axle galvanized EZ Loader-style roller trailer with brakes, which adds real value to the package. Older Bayliner Trophy fishing boats for sale have traded as low as roughly $6,500 for a clean-hulled mechanic's special needing engine work such as exhaust manifold replacement, so factor any required motor work into the price.