My Next Demo

[Airboatcapt2]

Do any of you guys Bowfish? I am thinking about building a Bowfishing boat as my next dem. I know it would be a little big for down here but when I travel it owuld be good?

 

[hmgm123]

I like to see a boat that keep up with this one on the hill. 18x7.5 with a 572 counter rotator. Instead of bow fishing have a hunting platform on top of the cage.

 

[Airboatcapt2]

Looks like fun

 

[Olf Art]

Faron, my vote is for light, quiet, and fast. Put one of Thunder's engines on a 14'X8' hull with seating for two and room for a pair of bolt-on baby seats.

 

[Airboatcapt2]

Olf Don't get me wrong, I want one of those thunder motors Bad. I am thinking about doing a 14ft Boat just like your saying. I am going to get Stan to build a demo for himself and then we can swamp them in 6 months.

So 2 boats.

 

[goldhunter_2]

I like that platform idea :thumbup: :thumbup:

 

[Thin water]

There is good Carp/Talapia (same fish called different things around here) shooting in the Deleon Springs run. It empties into a fairly big lake that is only a few feet to inches deep with some holes near the spring. The weeds are so thick and the water is down so airboats are the best option for bowfishing. This water goes through lake Woodriff and into the St. Johns.This is the right time of year to get a pile of them. Good eating also. There are a bunch of gators sleeping on the bottom as you pass over them on the cold nights. I used to bowfish there with my little 16' Savage Creek tunnel hull. It was like a slightly enlarged canoe. It sucked when you bumped a gator and they almost turned over the little boat. Gators are good to eat also. I think I'll get a license for one this year. I found a bang stick at a local aluminum recycling place a few weeks ago and bought it as scrap. They had no idea what it was.

Here gator gator gator....

JIM

 

[K-mac]

I've spent a lot of time sitting on a boat cushion on top of the
cage of my ol 125, and one guy had what looked like a six foot
bar stool with a swivel seat that would attach to the top of his
cage. That was about a hundred pounds ago, these days I
might need a couple more sticks of emt in the top of the cage.

 

[beebelawn]

Faron, my vote is for light, quiet, and fast. Put one of Thunder's engines on a 14'X8' hull with seating for two and room for a pair of bolt-on baby seats.

14' is way small if you're planning on shooting any number of fish. 16' at least most around here run 18x8.

 

[Quackcephus]

Do any of you guys Bowfish? I am thinking about building a Bowfishing boat as my next dem. I know it would be a little big for down here but when I travel it owuld be good?

:twisted:

 

[Airboatcapt2]

If I do a 14 15ft Boat it would be a play toy not a bowfishing boat Beebelawn.

 

[beebelawn]

I understand now!