Lets Talk Boat Concealment and Stuff

[ducks4days]

A little different for seaducks, I just paint the boat

See, I never in a million years would try hunting sea ducks upside down like this. Makes sense why I rarely take harvest them, you must teach me your ways!

[Sundance]

A little different for seaducks, I just paint the boat

What size mator is that? Is that a plastic room old or fiberglass. I got a little 2hp for my room old. ANY tips for best uses?tips?

It’s a 2hp Honda on a roto molded beavertail final attack. It gets me there, but it definitely doesn’t get on plane with 250# (me and gear). I typically am not going more than a 1/4 mile, I’d like to have a 4-5 hp. The custom rebuild boat which will be my new tender is almost finished. It will pack 2 beavertail layout boats and has a duckwater style seaduck blind.

[Sundance]

A little different for seaducks, I just paint the boat

See, I never in a million years would try hunting sea ducks upside down like this. Makes sense why I rarely take harvest them, you must teach me your ways!

Trust me, you can feel upside down and backwards after freezing your bum off waiting for a flight on a January morning on the salt. Those little layaways are wild when the weather kicks up, that or when a sealion or orca comes too close to your longline drop.

[BD1]

Bump 

[John B]

I have a work in progress I started towards the end of last season. It's an old 10' flat bottom, I use it to get to a spot, set decoys then drag it on shore to hunt out of. Frame is emt conduit, found a website called makerpipe that has all kinds of connections to build about anything you can think up.

[BD1]

Nice!!!! Thank you 

[ducks4days]

I’m in the same position.  Boat is ready to hunt but I need to add paint, blind, or?
With no dog, I’m worried about having to drop the blind to retrieve birds.

I grew up hunting sheet water in fields or jump shooting off of dikes, and only really started chasing birds from a boat in the last 5 years or so. I have lost dozens of birds in that time just taking my eyes off of them to drop the blind and get the boat out of whatever cover I had it in, look up and theyre completely gone, spend 20 minutes going in circles looking and never finding them.

My new 4 legged hunting partner has been working and training hard and may drown herself before letting a bird get away, which is the solution I came up with. Before that, I just stopped going alone to spots that didnt give me a quick and clear path back to the boat and out to the spread. This is going to be a problem you will run into, and you will lose birds, there is no way to completely eliminate that. You will need to figure out a few ways to make it happen less often.