Goose shell decoys?

[delta hunter]

Has anyone tried turning goose shell decoys into water decoys?

[Kodiak]

are you looking how to do it?? i have no idea, maybe get some expanding foam spray and put a keel type thing in there with a wieght in it?

[Tyler Holm]

For some brands of shells, you can buy a slip in water keel and float. They work just fine. I imagine you could build your own if your ambitious enough.

[delta hunter]

See I have Carry Lite Mag goose shells, and I really don't have the money to go spend a couple hundred $ on actual goose floaters. So I'm just trying to find away that I can use my shells.

[norm]

My buddies got some of that rigid pink styrafoam type insulation and cut pieces so it would fill up the shell with about 4 chunks stacked up and glued together. We didn't make keels we just tied the decoy line around the necks. A keel wouldn't be hard to add though.

[poutpro]

black pipe insulation around the bottom of the shells.

[hanson]

Someone just told me about the black pipe insulation wrapped around the bottom of the shell as well.

[delta hunter]

That is what a friend of mine said, but I can't seem to find it any where!

[poutpro]

Fleet Farm

[delta hunter]

I found some, and seems to work okay!!! Thanks for on the info guys!!!

[riverrat56]

Well last year before catmaster and I had purchased our boat full of decoys we made our dozen shells into floaters by putting a mallard decoy under them (early goose season so we didnt need the ducks) Basically it attached with ducktape and then there was 2 thin dowels in there to hold the decoy steady. Suprisingly it worked rather well, but you had to be careful storing them and setting them out, also they never got a chance in rough water. I like the foam idea though, sounds like the flambue pontoon decoy idea.