Remote controlled fishing pontoon (September,2006).

This Pontoon is being built as a class project at TTC McKenzie, Tn. It is built to remotely catch a fish. The students involved are Phillip Garrett and Joe Walker. Joe is a high school senior.

A special thanks to James Tucker ( machine and tool instructor) and Jimmy Kee (welding instructor) and Bob Donald (Industrial Maintenance instructor) for all your help over the years. Without you guys, I couldn't build a tumble bug hill..

Length 32 inches. Width 14 inches. Pontoons are 24 inch fun noodles. Pontoon cores are broom handles. Water protection for sensitive electronics is a tupperware type sandwich box.


Electric drive motor is a Black and Decker battery powered weed eater motor. Propeller is a cut down Shakespeare Sigma trolling motor prop. Model airplane servo motors control the movements of the PT. The fish pole is a cut down Shakespeare Bugs Bunny kiddie pole.

The tupperware box has a cpu fan in the center to exhaust hot air from the electronics inside the box.

The black square device is the cooling fan. The round black device is a sonalert. It gives an audiable alert when there is downward pressure exerted on the fishng pole. It is a fish indicator.

Sucess! First field trial was held today (September 21, 2006) at Carroll County Lake, Tn. All components performed very well. The range of the Humminbird wireless sonar was about 65 feet. Lost communications a couple of times with the sonar remote, but the wind was up and a few whitecaps were sited.