I grew up fishing in Minnesota. If you want to ever get out on the larger water/reservoirs around here and go after lake trout, troll for walleyes or whatever I would ditch the bass boat and go with a deeper v aluminum hull Lund or similar style boat.
I've thought about getting a boat lately and f I did based on the type of water you see in Colorado I would go with something like this.
https://www.lundboats.com/boat-models/1875-pro-v/
Buy used and save a ton of money.