looking into buying a bait boat and looking to find out wat the best 1s are and wat others think

mate of mine has one said there not worth the hassle unless you have few bob to keep fixing it ,

Buy a dinghy mate diy job

Angling technics take some beating when it comes to bait boats.You get what you pay for though.Viper are a good make.I have a viper icon,and it does the job although i find it to be slow a bit,and gets tossed about in choppy water.No problems with motors or wireing.Some like props,others prefer jets.Horses for courses.One hopper or two.Go for two if you have the cash,as you can drop two seperate loads on the one trip,saving valueable battery life.I dont use mine every time out,i regard it as another tool in the box.Great for when you want to get a bait and some freebies into a tight spot.If your looking to put a lot of bait out,get handy with a marker&spod,they'll go all day without charging.

Mike is it the one I sold you????
Still going strong???

have a bic boat there te use their the crap row out drop the bait bang on the money everytime can have yr bait and hook bait on a euro coin everytime was just thinking of the size and hassle of the bic all de time

get a spod n marker

wouldnt work the best for fishing 100 te 200 yards ta i fish i hate fishing wer every1 else fishes i fish the other side of the lakes few inches from the reeds or lillys always works well for me

Have a waveruner meself and they can be a bit of a nightmare at times. A baitboat is a handy bit if kit for getting rigs into akward places and ur rigs will be tangle free and on ur bait. It gives u a bit of peace of mind that way. If ya do get one, mind it like a child.

You got it Glen.No trouble at all.Works a treat on brigueuil

Except when batterys go dead and only way of charging them is a solar panel, thanks to Dan for charging them up (and retreiving from lake) or it would still be floating around Brigeueil.

That's a low blow Paul......

Like i said "Nothin wrong with the boat"glen....solar panel wouldnt charge a night light though. (paul secretly wants one).

i had viper and they are a great boat but hard on batterys, i have a waverunner double hopper now and had nothing but hassle with it. motor went, it leaked aerial broke. as netboy said, mind them like a baby. i like the look of the waverunner shuttle or the skarp.

Seen a homemade one in Brigeueil earlier on this year and in fairness if I was thinking of a boat thats the way I would go. It was made from what I think was 3 or 4 inch plastic pipe (like downpipe on side of a house) and had two hoppers on it. These were made from stackable storage containers that when pushed by a piston they emptied. I saw it go through lillies as if they werent there and it was fast and stable. Dan may have a pic somewhere of it and mabey a bit more info on it. The only thing wrong with it was it was about 3-4 feet long and the fellow who had it used a trailer to get it up the track. All I can say is that if Carlesberg made baitboats.