Anyone ever try and make one of these?


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Fill the butt connectors with silicone to make sure no water can get in

I set it up so that I would have a pair of butts on each run as you can see however this is not neccessary. But it keeps from having to deal with so much wire

I used a lawnmower battery from wally world...cost about 20 bucks (15 if you got a trade in) I can generally use the butts for 3 days of hunting 3-5 hrs each day before I need to recharge the battery

I cut the keel off the decoys and screwed the bilge pump to the bottom of the deke, I also used 3M 5200 (any waterproof adhesive/sealant will work) to attach the pump and provide more bite for the screws.

I attached an eye hook to the bottom seeing how I removed the attachment means when I cut off the keel.

I anchor them by clipping a line attached to a 1' piece of pvc to the decoy. This allows me to spread them apart with out them getting tangled.

You will have to attach some pipe to angle up from the bilge pump. It really depends on the kind of bilge pump you use as to what would be easiest. I used 3/4" pvc pipe. I heated it with a blow torch (lightly) and pushed it over the outlet on the bilge and bent it up to my liking (slightly below the surface).

If you have any other questions feel free to ask.

Ive made em with regular swimmers before, Drill holes in the thin top part of the keel and zip tie a bilge pump to one side. ( I got a 350 gph for $15 at Academy and attached 10 feet of 12 gauge wire to it)

Get a small 12 v battery ( the ones from barbie jeeps work well) and make one wrap around it with the wire with enough slack left to hook it to the terminals and zip tie it to the battery really snug.

Drop the battery in the water as an anchor and let it do its thing

http://www.higdondecoys.com/proddetail.asp?prod=50028

I don't leave home without them!!!

Yep, but unlike the Higdon I made mine for about $25.00 each. I just used a 12v feeder battery as the weight with about 8' of wire. Throw it out like a regular decoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7NmuTEvXps

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