airboat!!

[buckzone101]

  my dad and i both decided that an airboat or an argo would be B.A. for ice fishing... 





i think it would be so much fun to have an air boat (unless you were the one behind it when it fired up)

[mackdog75]

I been tossing around the idea of an airboat for ice fishin also.

[buckzone101]

i wonder how you would register it.. i think it would jsut be calssified as a boat right? and iv got a grumman jon boat if i can come up with an engine and all the rest of the stuff i could fab it up and bolt it on i think it be pretty fun..

[MattR]

On a good snow base it should work. Although on bare ice you might have to add some hyfax strips to the bottom or it will tear the bottom up after a while. Just my thoughts on this subject.

Matt

[buckzone101]

Yeah tha too and on dirt and whatever else I may run it down.. Which they wouldn't be that hard to do..

[mackdog75]

Buckzone do a search on google for bow fishing boats. Alot of guys are puting fans on jon boats to go into the shallows to shoot carp.

[buckzone101]

sweet idea

[cutter]

check out arrowprop skooter airboat - might not be enough hp but would be cheep

[ripNlips83]

Gonna be fun on the river this summer

[bart]

Talk about WIND FLAGS!!! to say the least...


Maybe even, Holy Windchill, Batman!!!

[xjma]

I did a lot of driving around the marshes, bayous, and inter-coastal waters down in Louisiana on a freakin' airboat.  The ones that I was riding around in have big v8s (like 400+ ci engines, none that were familiar to me though) and open headers.  Although they're great ATVs of a sort, they have their downsides......they're WICKED Fn loud for one thing!!!!  They're usually fine in backwaters and bayous but open water can be sktechy.  Any wind and you're not going over open water.  Also, the hulls of the ones that I was on were modified and reinforced with thick aluminum plates. 

[natep24]

a local fire dept has an fan powered boat. they
 have trouble with the boat in deep snow. it boggs down. on a couple inches of snow it works great

[ice dawg]

A guy on another fishing forum had a 22' hovercraft for sale a couple years ago which he used for ice fishing. It looked like a pot load of maintenance to me though.