Turkeys by boat

[yelp]

Anyone use a boat to hunt turkeys in WA  Lake Roosevelt, Pend Oreille, Snake,etc..Tube the Kettle Canoe  the Chehalis or Skookumchuck ..LOL..I am thinking of hunting by boat maybe..just was curious if anyone tried it. I would like to boat over to Inchelium and play with a few...turkeys that is..LOL. 

[turkey slayer]

Yelp,

With that new call that you are getting, you should be able to make them fly over the river to you. 

[yelp]

OK...I will give it a try.  That would be cool video to send to Zinks...Calling a bird off of the Rez and have it fly over the Columbia or better yet strut over the Gifford Ferry to my decoy by the boat ramp.  That would definately be once in a lifetime...LOL..

[fishunt247]

Ran into a guy a couple years ago who was turkey hunting via kayak. Yes, his game plan was to kayak down the Klickitat for about 4 miles in pure darkness with only a headlamp, loaded with a gun, turkey vest, decoy, the whole bit. WOW. He was hitchiking back up the river because he didn't have vehicle at the takeout. Sounds like a phenomenal way to drown to me. 

[yelp]

That gave me an idea the 2009 Turkey Triathalon....Swim, Run and Bike?  Not at my camp...How about beer, hunt, eat, beer hunt eat..   Oh and poo..

[MuleySniper]

Yelp, you forgot about the fart competitions! For some reason stickslinger wins it every year. But no, not this year my friend.... I have a master plan...  Muwaahhaaaahaaaa!
MS

Oh, yeah, Im wearing two pairs of socks when I go out in the morning too!

[Machias]

When I was 16 I killed my first gobbler on my own.  The were damning the Osage River and started creating Truman Lake.  It was creating dozens of small islands as the lake began to fill in.  There were gobblers all over the island/hilltops.  I took a canor out and in the pre dawn picked out a hilltop that had a lonely gobbler going to town.  I got on the island and popped over the top only to find what I thought was a hilltop was actually two hilltops close together but seperated by about 20 yards of water.  Called and called and called.  He would strut back and forth on the other bank which was about 60 yards away, no amount of sweet talking would coax him over.  About an hour into it, I see him come out of his strut and look off to my left...it was another guy canoeing in, but he was in plain sight.  When he was getting out of his canoe the gobbler had enough and flushed....right towards me.  I shot him in self defense, he was gonna land on my chest!!  He piled up about 5 or 6 yards from feet.   

I have a spot now that I am thinking of canoeing out and spending a couple of nights and hunt some un-touched areas.  Lots of fun boating into areas that no one else can get to.

[ICEMAN]

Hey, didnt you chew my butt for claiming I would blast a turkey in a tree? Hmmmmm, I cant remember exactly who chewed my hide....

[wastickslinger]

Yelp, you forgot about the fart competitions! For some reason stickslinger wins it every year. But no, not this year my friend.... I have a master plan...  Muwaahhaaaahaaaa!
MS

Oh, yeah, Im wearing two pairs of socks when I go out in the morning too!

Sniper you will never take the throne from the king!!!! Did you get that fart I mailed to you in a zip lock bag yet. 

I have a better recipe than broccoli and cheese this year. You guys will be gagging before I even cut one.

[Pathfinder101]

The first year I tried hunting turkeys my sister and I called all morning to a Tom in his roost.  After about an hour of fooling with us, a real hen yelped twice on the other side of the Colville River, he flew down to her, and that was the last we saw of him.
Assuming (of course) that the problem was not my calling, and that we were just not set up in his "fly down area", we commandeered a rowboat, hauled it down to the water, got up an hour earlier the next morning, crossed the river, and set up.  Same story; messed with him for about an hour, wouldn't come out of his roost, about 8:30 a real hen yelped right where we were sitting the day before, and down he flew...never to be seen again...

...I don't think my sister has hunted turkeys since...

[Machias]

Hey, didnt you chew my butt for claiming I would blast a turkey in a tree? Hmmmmm, I cant remember exactly who chewed my hide....

I don't think it was me, but I wouldn't recommend shooting turkeys out of a tree.  Notice my story up above was as a 16 year old....I haven't always made good choices.   

[ICEMAN]

Fred, I probably deserved a bit of chewing. And I totally agree....I havent always made the good choices either as a young man. Time has been my best teacher.

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

Drift the Cowlitz ......I have heard of it and even fantasised about having a boat on the Skookumchuck reservoir, but got tired just thinking about carrying a boat in my vest, what about a float-tube?......

[tonymoe]

Ran into a guy a couple years ago who was turkey hunting via kayak. Yes, his game plan was to kayak down the Klickitat for about 4 miles in pure darkness with only a headlamp, loaded with a gun, turkey vest, decoy, the whole bit. WOW. He was hitchiking back up the river because he didn't have vehicle at the takeout. Sounds like a phenomenal way to drown to me. 

If you would of said cat boat or raft, that would of been me! but I have only done the klickitat in a kayak once I have floated the klickitat many o many times for deer and turkeys. KICK IN THE PANTS HUNT! I have never put in on that river  before 10pm