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In anticipation of the open water at Strawberry I made a few modifications to my toon this year. Thought I'd share them with you in case TD's mods don't quite fit your budget. []
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[cool][#0000ff]Hey...I got a "Pat Pending" on that.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Got another model in the works that takes a 350 on it. Gets up on plane real good but sometimes leaves the operator behind.[/#0000ff]
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Now thats funny[laugh]
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Now that I have the battery carrier figured out I'm developing a cooler rack for it!
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The thing is that I actually made and used one of those when I was a kid in Arkansas. It was more like a wooden box that we attached to 10 foot styrofoam pontoons that we "found" near someone's dock. You gotta love 12 year old ingenuity. We used to fish 2-3 people out of it. We would paddle that thing all around the lake with 2X6 boards. The second summer we managed to save enough money for a $20 trolling motor at a pawn shop and thought it was then cool enough to try to pick up girls. We were ly mistaken, but we didn't care. It picked up plenty of fish. Before that boat we used to swim along the bank and chuck spinners while treading water with our feet (can you say white trash), so it was definitely a step up. Ahhhh, memories. What's wrong with kids today?
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I was wondering what had been occupying your time as I hadn't seen a post from you for awhile. Did you get up to fish the Tourney with Roger in WY?
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How do the redneck jokes go.

You may be a redneck if you have a lawn chair on your toon.
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Now that is some ingenuity. I would like to see more kids come up with ideas like that.
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I remember a project on Zoom that we tried at summer camp. Styrofoam "shoes" with what amounted to a levelor blind on the bottom. Flaps that moved one direction, kinda like the "tread" on a cross-country ski, or deer-skins.

Allowed you to actually "walk" on water.

I love it. I'd have covered the pontoons with colored duct tape to improve the hydrodynamicses, though, and lowered the chair.
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Make it an ice chest instead of the chair....LIVE WILL...and beer holder[]
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Hey now. Don't g[][]o knocking us Alabama boys too much. [] when we want something, we go get it. It might not look the best, but it most likely will get the job done. And I'm glad to see him sporting the "real" Alabama colors.
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It must be a southern thing. We moved from Wisconsin to Georgia when I was in the 6th grade. Somewhere between 6th grade and high school I built a toon using four wooden pallets and four plastic blue barrels from my fathers work. I banded them together and off I went. Problem was that the toon was heavy so once at the lake it had to stay. I used it on an 8 acre fishing pond in the middle of a sub division and golf course. I actually believed someone would steal it so I chained it to a big southern pine. Maybe not steal to take it but use it and not bring it back causing me to have to push stick it back to its original location. I would say that many fish were caught off that structure and a many golf balls were gathered. The golf ball gathering would piss off the local pro because I would get them and sell them to the golfers making me some illegal beer money to drink while on my barge. The Alabama guy did it right by making it portable.
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