I have ran both of them my friend has big Jon's on his boat I fish with him probably 12 times a year and I have cannons on mine. The only thing I like better about the big Jon's is if your bouncing bottom for trout the booms flex to let u know your there with the cannons you have to watch for slack in the cable. I would take my cannons all day long over the big Jon's. Just like them better, but like everyone said it's a Chevy ford thing, they where on the back of my dad's boat growing up.