• The SH Membership has gone live. Only SH Members have access to post in the classifieds. All members can view the classifieds. Starting in 2020 only SH Members will be admitted to the annual hunting contest. Current members will need to follow these steps to upgrade: 1. Click on your username 2. Click on Account upgrades 3. Choose SH Member and purchase.
  • We've been working hard the past few weeks to come up with some big changes to our vendor policies to meet the changing needs of our community. Please see the new vendor rules here: Vendor Access Area Rules

Random Musings From Your Resident Contrarian and Underage Curmudgeon

Nutterbuster said:
If you have the money for it and can't sell your wife a boat, somethings wrong. Chicks dig boats.
Click to expand...
I think she was there when I was talking about a duck hunting boat. Then I started talking fishing with it and she started balking. Her dad is trying to help.

It is a multipurpose boat. It will get lots of use either way. As I tell her, you can't put a price on daddy-daughter and daddy-son time.

Sent from my SM-G781U using Tapatalk
 
Homebrew454 said:
I think she was there when I was talking about a duck hunting boat. Then I started talking fishing with it and she started balking. Her dad is trying to help.

It is a multipurpose boat. It will get lots of use either way. As I tell her, you can't put a price on daddy-daughter and daddy-son time.

Sent from my SM-G781U using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
I bought a 16' War Eagle to duck hunt out of. Haven't used it for that in several years, but spends a lot of time helping me chase bass.
 
TNSTAAFL said:
I bought a 16' War Eagle to duck hunt out of. Haven't used it for that in several years, but spends a lot of time helping me chase bass.
Click to expand...
Care to share how you got it set up? I got a bare bones 1648 I’m looking for ideas on how to organize everything.
 
TNSTAAFL said:
I bought a 16' War Eagle to duck hunt out of. Haven't used it for that in several years, but spends a lot of time helping me chase bass.
Click to expand...
I've got a 16' sylvan striker(its my fathers really, but lives at my house all fall) and a popup blind made for it that hasn't seen any duck blood in probably 8 years...its sad, but I like sleep these days.
 
Here is an example of an abandoned hunting camp on your public land. This is just 1 of many on this stretch of public land road. I also removed an ungodly amount of flagging, duct tape, natural ice beer cans, medicine bottles, reflective pins, plastic grocery bags, screw drivers, and much more that was all used to mark entrances into the woods and hunting spots. There might be a few lost hunters out there.

b3f1e7f16844cf5aed9980a5233fc24e.jpg

af88fb2a4ba8f44a72f61591e2afc18e.jpg



Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
Davis21 said:
Care to share how you got it set up? I got a bare bones 1648 I’m looking for ideas on how to organize everything.
Click to expand...
Sure. It's pretty basic.

It has a pull start 30 hp Mercury tiller on it

I bought the War Eagle trolling motor mount brackett and installed a 45 lb Motorguide with a foot pedal. It's a little unstable to stand with one leg elevated on my primary waters (Lake Champlain), so I added a lean post I found on Cabelas. It helps a lot. I keep the battery for this back by the rear so I bought wiring and gaskets for the rail to keep all that tidy.

The previous boat owner installed a wood floor in the middle section. Haven't touched that. I just use a big boat blind bag for my tackle and keep it forward in the middle for weight distribution. In local tournaments I use a big cooler as a livewelI and that takes up most of the middle section. I lay the rods along each wall as best I can. Not great for rod protection given the uneven floor & platform, but it is not a bass boat.

I don't seem to have pics that show this well. Mostly just me or friends with fish!

I bought a Beavertail flip over blind for it, but haven't used it in a couple years. Not sure how it fits with the trolling motor on there now. I stopped taking it duck hunting as the birds seemed really reluctant to decoy around it. Been considering a layout blind of some kind as an alternative, if I ever get better about getting up early enough to go. Never developed a reliable hunting buddy, which always seemed like the best and perhaps necessary part of duck hunting. Archery hunting has absorbed most of my time, interest, and money.
 
TNSTAAFL said:
Sure. It's pretty basic.

It has a pull start 30 hp Mercury tiller on it

I bought the War Eagle trolling motor mount brackett and installed a 45 lb Motorguide with a foot pedal. It's a little unstable to stand with one leg elevated on my primary waters (Lake Champlain), so I added a lean post I found on Cabelas. It helps a lot. I keep the battery for this back by the rear so I bought wiring and gaskets for the rail to keep all that tidy.

The previous boat owner installed a wood floor in the middle section. Haven't touched that. I just use a big boat blind bag for my tackle and keep it forward in the middle for weight distribution. In local tournaments I use a big cooler as a livewelI and that takes up most of the middle section. I lay the rods along each wall as best I can. Not great for rod protection given the uneven floor & platform, but it is not a bass boat.

I don't seem to have pics that show this well. Mostly just me or friends with fish!

I bought a Beavertail flip over blind for it, but haven't used it in a couple years. Not sure how it fits with the trolling motor on there now. I stopped taking it duck hunting as the birds seemed really reluctant to decoy around it. Been considering a layout blind of some kind as an alternative, if I ever get better about getting up early enough to go. Never developed a reliable hunting buddy, which always seemed like the best and perhaps necessary part of duck hunting. Archery hunting has absorbed most of my time, interest, and money.
Click to expand...

Gotta grass those blinds in. Otherwise, even a layout is just a tent. I have one of those blinds and it’s worthless without some kind of grassing in.


On another note, which I mentioned in another thread somewhere......I have a habit of forgetting one bolt when I climb down and walk out. It’s so frustrating.
 
kbetts said:
Gotta grass those blinds in. Otherwise, even a layout is just a tent. I have one of those blinds and it’s worthless without some kind of grassing.
Click to expand...

Definitely. I put a bunch of multi colored raffia grass on it. Probably not enough though. It just seems so boxy to me. I'm not sure how a duck could be comfortable getting anywhere near it, but I guess people build fixed box blinds that work so what do I know. The only time I've had a bonafide shootout over decoys, which granted I was with a guide in South Padre Island, I just sat in a bush. No boat/blind to freak them out. Crazy fun. That place in late December is like duck Mecca.
89f053d6b87ad57ab8e8f988592018d0.jpg
 
Skeeter said:
I hate it when people will take the time to write a manifesto but still have to use abreviations and texting shorthand. You obviously felt the need to tell everybody what is rattling around inside your kettle of a head, so how about you use actual words to express yourself.
Click to expand...

Seriously, W T F... If you haven't tried SRT, DRT, or a LHWC then GTFO IMHO...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top