Who summer camps from their wheel house?

[JSK76]

How many ice fishers out there use there wheel house for a camper? Do you get strange looks at campgrounds? Any mods you've done to make it more camper friendly? I'm thinking of tinting the windows, adding an awning, AC unit and some vinyl decals to the out side to make it look more like a camper. If you got some pics of your house while camping please post them, all this snow is really giving me spring fever!

[Bulldoggr]

We have. we have a portable AC unit and exhaust it out the window of the bathroom. We use one of those portable awnings that you see vendors use at outdoor markets or Grad parties.

Use the outside grill and have a table set up for a make shift outside kitchen.

Who cares what others think! Use it as is and enjoy it. I see more and more people using theirs and they don't seem to care what others think as well.

[sunniewally]

only a wise man would buy a wheel house to use as a camper!!!! what good is just a camper!

[traveler]

we use ours for a sleep shack up at the cabin. The kids and thier friends sleep in it. We haven't made any mods, works out fine. I wouldn't hesitate to take it elsewhere to camp in either.

[BigDogRob]

Use mine all year now... spring antler shed hunting trip may be the next trip out. Summer camping last year at several places and love every minute of it. I have had many more compliments than snickers or sneers. I am still waiting for the smart one to ask bow they are biting... camping, hunting, fishing, extra bedroom for guest house. A person just can't go wrong! I even met another HSO'er while at a campgrounds both in our ice castles! I believe there were 3 others the same weekend!

[sfd]

I've been using mine as a camper for 6 years. Upgraded to one with A/C and booth table last year. I get allot of guys stopping to ask how well it works and to look at it. Had a few that ran and got their wives to look. Most say that their next camper is going to be a wheelhouse.

sfd

[Lusid]

I just use a tent. Saves me money and weight.

[BLACKJACK]

Wish they'd have had the dual purpose fishhouse/campers 15 years ago when we bought our camper!!! Nowadays I don't think I'd be able to talk the wife into letting me fish out of her 'playhouse'...

[FIRECAT]

Like ice castle sez, u can camp in a fish house but u can't fish in a camper! Put a small AC unit in the back window and cooled it off nice.

[dougger222]

Have not yet used the fish house for camping but the good news is people won't point and say "look at that fish house" when it's pulled into a camp ground. The manufacturer, Dreamshak builds fish houses not to look like fish house but yet have ramp doors and push botton drop down axles.

Actualy it's quite the opposite when other ice fisherman ask about the fish house on dry land. A bait store owner this Winter asked why a camper to fish out of!

[ozzie]

nice looking rig dougger222

[gurkster]

We used ours as a camper and had no issues.

[dougger222]

nice looking rig dougger222

Thanks!

BTW, did "camp" out in it out of Wigwam early this past december as the ice was too thin to take the house out.

Years ago converted a 8x16 camper into a fish house and it worked great but it was a ways off the ice. $650 for the camper $650 for a 30K btu furnace and a day doing mods to allow 6 holes to be cut into the floor.

One thing is for sure about campers versus fish houses. It costs a lot more money to buy a fish house you can camp out of with running water and a/c compared to a camper. The cost per foot for a fish house/camper would be 2-3 times more than a camper.

The Dreamshak will be pulled up to the cabin this Spring to be use as overflow sleeping.