I been thinking about this for years. Though slightly different. Why not take a Kayak and mount the dredge motor in it? The jet pump would scoot a kayak right along up the creek. Get to your location and switch it over to dredging mode.
Integrated suction dredge watercraft are the future.
If a guy wanted to get real carried away yah might even be able to mount a sub-surface type sluice inside the kayak and pump the tailing underneath the boat. Most folks wouldnt even know what it was.
When I was a kid this guy kind of kicked us out of a local fishing hole, told us we couldnt be there 'private property'. The next time we sneaked in there to fish some guy had a weird looking boat tied up there with a lawnmower motor running on it. Weird damn looking boat and no a person around in site. why's that motor running? It aint going nowhere it's all tied up. Anyway now that I'm older and more experienced I know that was a keen dredge with the yellow pontoons. Also having read some articles i suspect that may have actually been Dave McCracken, but that's just a guess based on some magazine articles Ive read. Definately gonna go take another look at that section of river one of these days.
Anyways, dredge in a boat seams like a fine idea to me.
