using a pontoon

[Tom7227]

I was out boating the other night and it looked like a couple of folks had launched pontoon boats for an evening on the lake.  Does anyone know if that's done very much?  I have a pontoon and I would never think of moving it around as it is a beast.

[leech~~]

I was out boating the other night and it looked like a couple of folks had launched pontoon boats for an evening on the lake.  Does anyone know if that's done very much?  I have a pontoon and I would never think of moving it around as it is a beast.

I don't have one but with some of the newer trailers and pontoons that pull better I see a lot of folks running them up and down the roads.

[mrklean]

You see it some like leech said with some of the new trailers out there makes it much easier, plus you have more room to move, toss a grill on there can make for a heck of a night fishing in the fall

[Wanderer]

Once we got a pontoon it became the main family fishing rig.  It sees the water at least 3x more than the Lund.  I have a tandem axle bunk trailer and pull it everywhere including Ely several times per summer.  i see many others on the roads as well.

The two main problems are finding enough parking space for the whole rig at some lakes and making sure you're towing it on a level hitch.

I see lots of people running tandem axle trailers with a hard, nose down pitch.  That wears your front tires fast and there's actually lift on your hitch as the rig tries to balance itself.  I have a 3/4 ton truck and have to put a 2 inch rise hitch in my receiver for proper leveling.

[aanderud]

My dad and mom had a pontoon from 1998 until 2006, and they lived in town far from any lakes.  That boat was trailered/launched/loaded 2x-3x per week May through Sept, plus towed up to Mille Lacs for fishing at least 5x per summer.  It was a 25 foot 'toon on a tandem axle scissor-style trailer.  It was not a single-person launch/load operation, by any stretch of the imagination.  It could be done, but only in certain wind conditions.  For the most part it was a two-person operation.  Dad would back the trailer in, mom would drive the pontoon up slowly onto the guided trailer, dad would put a safety pin and two straps in place, then crank it all the way up to lift it out of the water and off they went.

 

Edited September 11, 2015 by aanderud