[Mipper42]

A friend of mine bought an old pontoon boat and came up with some grand plans to convert it to a duck/goose boat.

Here are the befor and after pictures.

There is more to this than meets the eye. Post your thoughts and I can tell you how he has modified it in the hopes that he can lower and re-raise it while it is in the water.

He also plans to put more foliage / camo on it as well.

 

[lwrsusq]

I know of a pontoon boat with bilge pumps so that he can lower and raise it like you said.. Sounds like a pretty cool idea to me

 

[mallardsx2]

You woudnt kill one duck out of that contraption, in my area, in an entire season with that thing. Thats my thaught....Sorry

 

[steelshot]

pretty cool idea,
good for you...if your planning on making it a duck boat an only a duck boat.dull up all the shiny area's.

there's alot of room to expand upward's as to built a blind or blind's on top with roof's. an if ya camo real good an think outside the box.i think your gonna have a duck killing machine on your hand's.

i can't wait to see it after it's done.

congrat's so far.

see-ya
steve

 

[Mipper42]

You guessed right with the bilge pumps.

And he is not nearly done with the camo side of it. I think he plans to attach alot of real life cover to it. The stuff that you see now is just the base camo.

 

[4c_game_chaser]

keep us posted on the progress, can't wait to see the final product

 

[deluxe hunter]

nice rig

 

[goosemaster1976]

looks cool....hopefully you can kill a bunch of ducks.

 

[Double Shorthair]

Nice duck barge!!!

 

[Jayson Wilt]

Looks good I have hunted off of similiar rigs in the past and have done really well all over the country on all types of ducks and geese...

 

[Shorthair88]

Have you considered painting it? Especially the aluminum to dull the shine. You would have to put a lot of camo on there to get rid of all the shine, especially on a real sunny day. I think that even with all the cover and netting some of that aluminum will show through. Just a thought. Looks like it could be a real killin machine though. Are you planning to transport it everywhere since the docks will be pulled when cold weather sets in?

 

[dhammarb]

The pontoon is painted in nat gear camo. About 8 coats of paint when it was finished. I researched which camo pattern I wanted and picked this one. Time will tell. I was going to try to spray glue and sprinkle dirt over the top to add to it but haven't found a glue spray yet that doesn't leave a shine.

Now that is a shine

Several coats of primer and base layer of the camo pattern

Thanks for the compliments. Dave

 

[Shorthair88]

Looks good. It was hard to see that great paint job under the netting.

 

[LabandBirdman]

that's hardcore.....nice work

 

[susquegander]

NOW THATS LIVIN!!!

 

[Trout 2003]

Very hardcore.

 

[dhammarb]

The first test in the pond was a success!

The back end will be covered with brush like a normal island in the river. Most of them have a bunch of brush on the back side.

 

[Shorthair88]

Awesome job. Glad to see all of your hard work and $$$$ paying off. Can't wait to see the first pics of what you harvest off your duck barge.

 

[LabandBirdman]

That's really cool, man I'd be squeezin' it tight as that thing lowered down.

 

[brettS]

looks good.
why is it lowered only in the front though?? can it be completely lowered??