Any old bucket will do. Drill a few good sized holes in the bottom, not enough to make swiss cheese, just mainly to let you drain the water easily to retrieve it. Relpace the wire handle with one made out of rope.  I have lost 2 buckets by not doing this. Tie a length of rope to the center of the rope handle. You will have to judge for yourself on positioning of the bucket and length of rope through trial and error. You want the bucket out enough that it grabs current behind the boat and steadys it without being in the backwash created by the hull, (which will cause the bucket itself to sway the boat) but close enough in that it will not interfere too badly with landing a fish. On a wide boat like my pontoon I can swing the rear of the boat somewhat depending on which side of the boat I tie it to. My front anchor rope is tied in the center of the boat and when I put the drift bucket out the rear the two ropes (drift bucket and anchor) will try to line up with each other, thus swinging the boat one way or the other slightly. This helps counter the effect of the wind swinging me in a particular direction. My drift bucket doubles as my anchor rope storage bucket.

wow thats simple enough...
thanks for the info..
it seems to easy to just drop something like that in the water and have it work like that...

http://www.hookedoncatfish.com/Bucket.html

Here is the how to on my drift bucket..............Doc

Thats the instructions I used to make mine a while back,and they work great :grin: .....as long as you follow the directions and dont make the bottom holes too big like I did on my first one. :lol: All I had on  hand was a 2.5" hole saw and I didnt think it would make a difference to go with the bigger hole size,but it allowed to much water to pass through,and didnt pull enough to lock the boat down on anchor. it ended up floating beside the boat :o  :lol: