Bought or buying a used pontoon

Left a deposit on a 2001 Sun Tracker 18 Bass Buggy, 02` 70 hp Johnson 4 stroke and 2003 trailer. Boat needs seats recovered as they are sun cracked, carpet is filthy from sitting under trees this summer, has 2 electric anchors, blue led lights on back/sides of boat for cat fishing, live well under drivers flip/flop seat, foot controlled 50# thrust trolling motor and 2 fishing seats up front.. all metal flooring so no deck rot.
Going to sell my 2006 Crestliner Angler SC, take my Humminbird Helix 9,Lowrance HDS 7 touch and Millineum seats and put on pontoon boat.. will put all original depth finders/seats back on boat..will probably sell my XI5 to buy one for pontoon(36 vlt hopefully)..
I may put the 50# foot control motor off pontoon on my Crestliner boat to sell it or buy a new one to put back on it.
My Spyderlock rod holders wont work on pontoon so will probably sell with small boat.
Going to try to attach some pics of pontoon, going to pick it up Tues or Wed, pics are at previous owners house today.

GFY I love my 21 foot lowes set up like yours. good to fish out of but even better to take cruises around the lake with friends and grandkids. Enjoy and you can replace all the cracked stuff.

Congrats. That center console will be nice for fishing and playing.


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Your gonna love that Jonnysuki four stroke !!! Sips gas , and quite . Be interesting to find out how it wound up on the back of a tracker . Did tracker ever offer that motor ?

Congrats on the new ride. Don’t give up those spyderloks so fast. I also fish out of a pontoon and Gene who designed the spyderloks made two holders that bolt on the pontoon rail and you bolt the spyderloks right to them. Work great.

Nice fishing platform. We are getting tired of stepping up two levels to get to the bow deck on my 22 foot Sea Chaser. I could jump right up there 13 years ago, not so much now. Yes get those rod holders mounted to the rails you won't find any better ones. Don

​Good luck with your new craft. Center console is nice.

When you start fooling with furniture, get estimate for recovering. Then get in touch with grizzly jig. They sell a ton of poontoon boat furniture. They may have exact fit cheaper. Going to be a nice fishing platform. And like CW said call e z about his rail mount for SpiderLocks. And congratulations.

Thanks guys I contacted Gene about adapting my holders to my pontoon rails..
Cray thanks for the tip on Grizzly Jig, didn't realize they had pontoon furniture.
I definitely love my Spyderlock holders.
Looking forward to getting it all set up and out on the water, that engine is super quiet as stated.

You will love your pontoon. They are more comfortable that a run about. Nice to be able to get up and walk around

yeah I owned a 16 ft Grumman fishing pontoon back around 94 and we really liked it.

If you can weld or have a friend that can, you can make your spydr-locs work. I got extra bases from Gene and built two matching bases for 1/4" steel so I could weld it. I added a 5 1/2" square tubing in between the two bases, thus raising my existing rod holders up over the rails. I did not want to clamp anything to my rails and scratch them up.
Just an idea that might work for you.
I swap two of them back and forth between the pontoon and crappie boat.
I leave the extensions on the pontoon and the rod holders move by just removing the two bolts that hold it down just as it was designed.

any chance you could post a picture of what your holders look like..?

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Originally Posted by cwright

Congrats on the new ride. Don’t give up those spyderloks so fast. I also fish out of a pontoon and Gene who designed the spyderloks made two holders that bolt on the pontoon rail and you bolt the spyderloks right to them. Work great.

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Got any pics of your mods, I can weld decent. thanks.

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Originally Posted by deltarat

If you can weld or have a friend that can, you can make your spydr-locs work. I got extra bases from Gene and built two matching bases for 1/4" steel so I could weld it. I added a 5 1/2" square tubing in between the two bases, thus raising my existing rod holders up over the rails. I did not want to clamp anything to my rails and scratch them up.
Just an idea that might work for you.
I swap two of them back and forth between the pontoon and crappie boat.
I leave the extensions on the pontoon and the rod holders move by just removing the two bolts that hold it down just as it was designed.

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