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My Custom Fishing Machine 18'-0" Flat Bottom
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<blockquote data-quote="Poormans Boatright" data-source="post: 236408" data-attributes="member: 5870"><p>Thanks Fool4fish & Ride_Klein. Hey Ride, do you still come to Dike? They got it fixed up real nice since Ike.</p><p></p><p>This past weekend I got around to building a push pole for the boat. I realize most of you don't use a push pole or maybe wondering what one is and what do you do with it. Down here we use them to push the boat in the shallows, some guys use them while sight fishing where as you can literally see the fish and instead of a trolling motor you push yourself toward them. Comes in handy for tailing Reds within sight. I know you Florida guys use them.</p><p></p><p>They can come in handy also if you run aground or just checking water depth and bottom conditions ie. mud or shell bottom.</p><p></p><p>This pole was given to me by a friend who used to work on crew boats, they used them as grappling hooks for mooring lines. Originally it had a point and a barb, what I did was take some 1/4" aluminum plate and made a web foot and welded it to the end of the pointed end. I left the barb on thinking it might come in handy to grab a dock or something. The pole is 15' long (kinda long to hang off the side of the boat) so I decided to cut it in half and make it a 2 piece which would be easier to store on the boat. Here's what I did, after cutting the pole in half I took a 1 " threaded coupling and welded it to end. I then threaded a 12" piece of aluminum pipe and slid it into the pole and riveted it to it. Now you can just screw the two together an you have a full length pole.</p><p></p><p>My next thing to do is makes some mounts to store the two sections on the boat, I figure I can make some tabs and weld them to the rails to store the pieces. Here's the pics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Poormans Boatright, post: 236408, member: 5870"] Thanks Fool4fish & Ride_Klein. Hey Ride, do you still come to Dike? They got it fixed up real nice since Ike. This past weekend I got around to building a push pole for the boat. I realize most of you don't use a push pole or maybe wondering what one is and what do you do with it. Down here we use them to push the boat in the shallows, some guys use them while sight fishing where as you can literally see the fish and instead of a trolling motor you push yourself toward them. Comes in handy for tailing Reds within sight. I know you Florida guys use them. They can come in handy also if you run aground or just checking water depth and bottom conditions ie. mud or shell bottom. This pole was given to me by a friend who used to work on crew boats, they used them as grappling hooks for mooring lines. Originally it had a point and a barb, what I did was take some 1/4" aluminum plate and made a web foot and welded it to the end of the pointed end. I left the barb on thinking it might come in handy to grab a dock or something. The pole is 15' long (kinda long to hang off the side of the boat) so I decided to cut it in half and make it a 2 piece which would be easier to store on the boat. Here's what I did, after cutting the pole in half I took a 1 " threaded coupling and welded it to end. I then threaded a 12" piece of aluminum pipe and slid it into the pole and riveted it to it. Now you can just screw the two together an you have a full length pole. My next thing to do is makes some mounts to store the two sections on the boat, I figure I can make some tabs and weld them to the rails to store the pieces. Here's the pics. [/QUOTE]
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