Outrigger pontoons for an aluminum fishing boat

alumanaut · #1 February 25th, 2009, 09:34 PM

I like small, light, slender aluminum fishing boats with tiller steering outboards for small lake fishing.

But I also like to crab in the local estuary and I would like to stand up in the boat to pull up the traps with out so much rocking.

Does anyone sell outrigger pontoons the could be fitted to a 14-16' aluminum fishing boat?

Ideally the pontoons would fold up out of the water for running on plane and just be deployed when putting around from basket to basket.

mthieme · #2 February 25th, 2009, 10:29 PM

Are the sides that high where you can't sit and pull up the traps?

Note the crabbing machine in my avatar.

5150abf · #3 February 26th, 2009, 05:16 AM

That is probably one of those things you will have to make yourself, The first thing I thought of was 6''-8'' pvc pipe rigged to the hull some how.

Getting really small toons is gonna run you quite alot but no, I have never seen outriggers for a jon boat.

tashasdaddy · #4 February 26th, 2009, 07:05 AM

or a block of styrofoam glassed in, on hinge arm. even a plastic gas can. on an arm

tx1961whaler · #5 February 26th, 2009, 09:54 AM

The most expensive option...get another boat for crabbing. Keep your current boat for fishing. You can pick up an old whaler like mine for less than a grand and stand up on the gunwales all day, if you'd like.

marquette · #6 February 26th, 2009, 11:32 AM

i think i saw what you need last year at the Minneapoilis sportsman show. there was a guy there selling outriggers for canoes. these weren't the standard canoe outriggers. i remember he had a video of a canoe with a 9.9 on it going on plane across the lake. he had another one of a canoe pulling a water skier and something about a guy standing on one of the pontoons. i could remember thinking "who is he trying to market this to". you may be the person. other than googleing canoe pontoons i have no idea how to find him again. the sportsman show comes up in about a month and if he is there i could pm you his info if you are interested. or maybe you could google the 2008 MPLs sportsman show vendor list and find him.

alumanaut · #7 March 1st, 2009, 01:22 AM

Thanks, Marquette, I believe I found him.

CGH · #8 September 3rd, 2009, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by alumanaut

Thanks, Marquette, I believe I found him.

How about a follow up.

I have a 1432 and I looking at 6 or 8 inch PVC 10 foot long on either side of my boat. to try and get rid of that tipsy feeling. Not going to get rid of th e1432. I have a 1436, 1448, a 16 foot skeeter to boot