does anyone have a tank or pool they cast their lures in to see the action? i was talking to one of my friends today and he said it would be easy to make one. its going to be made out of plexi glass and be 25 feet long by 8 feet wide. just to cast around in and check the action of lures. i would sneak into a pool and try but its a bit too risky.

Well, I have an in-ground 40'x15' pool in the backyard but I don't cast lures into it for fear that my two St. Bernards would jump in and try to either rescue them or EAT them. Lord knows they eat everything else in sight:o)

Our neighbors have a in ground pool. When they're at work I sneak over and try out my stuff!!! ;D ;D That's a good idea, building one I mean!!

wouldnt that be really expensive to make and fill?

he has all the plexi glass from some other project i guess. and i would just fill it with a garden hose. its not going to be very deep, just about 3 feet probably.

i was making a lure on the lathe today and started talking to him about it and i wanted to see if it would swim but everywhere here is frozen. so he brought up making a pool to try stuff out in. thats how this whole idea came about.

I use the pool but your idea sounds cool because you could get a side view that way.

yeah and i was thinking of putting some boulders in the bottom and maybe some tree branches or bushes to see how everything works in the structure

I test bait sin my pool more than I swim in it

I test baits in my pool more than I swim in it

x2 to that.

You do realize that given your stated specifications, you would be dealing with 4500 gallons of water weighing in the neighborhood of 38 000 pounds.

I test bait sin my pool more than I swim in it

Water isn't supposed to be green, I wouldn't swim in it either.

I've been testing baits in my apartment swimming pool, you should see the looks i've been getting.

does anyone have a tank or pool they cast their lures in to see the action? i was talking to one of my friends today and he said it would be easy to make one. its going to be made out of plexi glass and be 25 feet long by 8 feet wide. just to cast around in and check the action of lures. i would sneak into a pool and try but its a bit too risky.

I hope you know you need a pretty thick acrylic right? It has to be sealed properly or else it will bust!!! Imagine if someone is standing in front of the tank when it bust? The surface where the tank is going to lay has to be almost perfectly flat or else the water pressure will bend the glass causing it to bust.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94788

What are you going to do w/ the water in the tank? do you plan to run one huge or many numerous filters? What are you going to do when algea grows on it?

Its probably easier to just find someone w/ a pool and wear a snorkel as a friend is working the bait or have a water proof camera case for you to record the action in the pool.  

Just to add to redsyns post a bit, the deeper you go, the exponentially more difficult it becomes to build a sound tank. Width and length have a much lesser effect.

he's a woodshop and a welding teacher who was building something he had leftover glass with. i hadn't thought about all that but i could probably sneak into some pools. i think it would be cool though to have some structure in it so i could see how it works in certain situations. but i'm sure i'll figure something out