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[evnpar1020]

Has anyone used or tried using a bilge pump, i.e. one for a larger boat. Should work, maybe tie one to a decoy or something and let it pump away..could help keep ice from forming and keep some movement for cheap for those who hunt out of a boat or blind?? I guess you would just have to float the pump, and attach a hose to another decoy or something to make it work...What do you guys think?

[dukhunter]

i think it would be more trouble than it was worth......

[pntailhntr]

I was going to try and make a motion decoy out of one one time. I tried using a water keel decoy, I was going to have it suck from the front with a hose and blow out the back with another, just couldn't get the battery parts figured out, OR find the right ones. Pump and betteries together were too heavy anyway.

You would have to have one hell of a bilge pump to make enough water motion to keep ice from forming!!

[yourmanwm75]

Macks use to sell one i dunno who made it i was dumb enough to buy one it's not really worth the trouble. it sucks up trash and gets tangled so bad. if i find it i'll take a pic and show it to you. would be easy to make!

[GUNNERX2]

We've been using them for years. 500 GPH bilge pump screwed to the bottom of a duck butt w/ a short piece of 90 elbow (just enough to reach the water line) coming out of the pump. Wire it with about 100' of brown lamp cord with aligator clips to attach to a 12 volt battery (we use small tractor batteries). Go to automotive store and purchace turn signal flasher (2 pole only-they are about a $1.50) Cut the positive wire close to the aligator clip and wire in the flasher. What happens is that the flasher breaks the current and the pump goes on and off creating ripples through out the decoys as it rocks back and forth. Looks just like feeding duck and is deadly on calm days.

[mmkenty]

bowfisher men use them to take the water out of there boats if they start getting full

[ducman77]

bowfisher men use them to take the water out of there boats if they start getting full