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I'm looking at different ideas for duck hunting when it comes to a boat but also be able to do some fishing when it comes out in the lakes.

anything from a kayak, canoe pontoon boat and aluminium. something that is portable at the same time easy to store

you have ideas or pics of different kinds it wooed be great to see the different ideas and what people like to use.

Thanks
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Here is mine.... I did a home camo job on it.... it is a 12 foot aluminum... I paid under 100 for the boat on Kijiji.... about 100 bucks for paint and JB weld to do the rivets... doesn't leak, hides well in my blind and I don't cringe when I scrape her over he rocks.... The motor is a 6hp suzuki I paid 300 bucks for and painted up....


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Runningfool said:
Great camo job there Superbrad! Very impressed!
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Thanks... I made some templates by going online and downloading some silhouettes of reads and rushes and leaves.... then I traced them onto cardboard and cut them out with an artist's knife....

I painted it rustoleum black as a base and used krylon camo for the reeds and leaves etc....

I also downloaded the suzuki logo and cut that out of cardboard too for the motor.... full package paint and all was about 550 and that includes the just in case bilge pump I installed in the back...
 
Wow Superbad that is an amazing job on your boat, it looked pretty rough to begin with. If you did not post the work in progress pictures I would have thought it was a different set up.
 
I have a kayak, a canoe and 2 boats that I use, but my most portable and versatile is an Old Town Predator 14 kayak, it can't be beat as far as a hunting/fishing kayak goes. It's roomy enough to carry a blind bag, a dozen to eighteen standard decoys and a dog, stable enough to hunt with a dog out of, or to stand in while fishing.
 
Superbrad said:
Here is mine.... I did a home camo job on it.... it is a 12 foot aluminum... I paid under 100 for the boat on Kijiji.... about 100 bucks for paint and JB weld to do the rivets... doesn't leak, hides well in my blind and I don't cringe when I scrape her over he rocks.... The motor is a 6hp suzuki I paid 300 bucks for and painted up....


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Superbrad thanks great pics
 
We have pretty much used every type of boat for hunting, deep-V's, jon boats, canoes, kayaks, punts, etc...

For the past 20 years we have use only one style... the duck boat series made by Scott Canoes in New Liskeard Ontario... These boats are amazing hunting watercraft. They are incredibly stable due to the design of their reverse chine... you can stand on the gunnel of a 16 foot DEEP model, when the boat is empty and it barely lifts in the water... it is a really good shooting platform.

My early experience was with the 14 foot DEEP model, but we petitioned the company for a bigger model and sent in some suggested modifications... they developed the 16 foot DEEP Duck, which is the boat we currently use and have since they were released many years ago... we had the factory make an open cockpit for hauling all the gear needed for waterfowl hunting and add an additional 3/4" of marine plywood under the seats (1.5" now for bolting down seat brackets), we added a kevlar skid plate to the bow (for breaking ice and protecting the bow from rocks), and we made an aluminum sleeve from 3/16" aluminum flat stock to beef up the motor mount on the transom. We also made a collapsable aluminum frame to completely surround the boat and motor (which are both flat olive drab)... and a canvas and burlap curtain which we camo painted and sewed lead into the hem to keep it from blowing around in the wind. I think most of my pics are old print film but I will try to find and post some pics. We also use these boats for our moose hunting which is all out of boat-in camps... we have taken out many full field dressed bulls in these boats (legs, heads and all)... they can haul an incredible load safely.

Here is a link to the Scott Canoe company website... you will see that there are four models of duck boat... the 12', 14', Deep 14' and the Deep 16' (the boat pictured is the Deep 16);

http://www.scottcanoe.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=51&Itemid=100

I found some old pics... sorry about the quality, these are digital pics of film prints;

Here is a pic of the 14' Deep duck, showing our blind frame;

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Here is a pic of the bow of the 14' Deep with an earlier version of the blind... this is hunting Whistler's in December on the North Channel of Lake Huron... with the LaCloche Mountains in the background (pretty anemic mountains for you Westerners!);

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These two pics are the boat with blind set-up in a weedbed and the view from inside the blind;

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Here is a success pic, using the boat and blind;

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We don't have much migratory hunting here, which I miss, however for all my other boating needs I use a 10 ft Zodiac. You can't get more portable or storable than a Zodiac. Super stabil and excellent in rough water and comes in drab grey. I DO NOT like water, especially large tracts of it deeper than my waist, but I feel quite secure in my Zodiac. I just bought a new Yamaha 2 stroke 6 Hp that kicks it along very respectably.
You can also romp all over it and stand on the side to take a leak they are truly a wonderful device and I highly recommend one. They also come in 12 and 14 ft if you need more room.
I was skeptical about durability before I bought one and I can tell you that under normal conditions they are extemely durable, gotta watch for rocks and don't drag 'em over the gravel.
They also package up and go into a float plane like a charm, expanding infinately where you can hunt and fish.
 
c-fbmi said:
We don't have much migratory hunting here, which I miss, however for all my other boating needs I use a 10 ft Zodiac. You can't get more portable or storable than a Zodiac. Super stabil and excellent in rough water and comes in drab grey. I DO NOT like water, especially large tracts of it deeper than my waist, but I feel quite secure in my Zodiac. I just bought a new Yamaha 2 stroke 6 Hp that kicks it along very respectably.
You can also romp all over it and stand on the side to take a leak they are truly a wonderful device and I highly recommend one. They also come in 12 and 14 ft if you need more room.
I was skeptical about durability before I bought one and I can tell you that under normal conditions they are extemely durable, gotta watch for rocks and don't drag 'em over the gravel.
They also package up and go into a float plane like a charm, expanding infinately where you can hunt and fish.
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I have a ten foot mercury inflatable I power with my 6hp suzuki also... Word to the wise though.. Buy a hypalon inflatable and not a pvc one... If you skimp you will have problems in the long run...
 
Superbrad said:
I have a ten foot mercury inflatable I power with my 6hp suzuki also... Word to the wise though.. Buy a hypalon inflatable and not a pvc one... If you skimp you will have problems in the long run...
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Indeed, a hypalon boat will far outlast a PVC one, although protecting the PVC from UV rays when not in use will help considerably. There are also varying degrees of hypalon quality, so it is worth checking exactly what the source of hypalon is.
 
Here are a few.

17 ft. freight canoe rebuilt for moose hunting
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a little pond box I built in Saskatchewan for use on sloughs.

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a 13 ft. aluminum skiff with cedar/epoxy decking. Used with a 6 hp Johnson 2 stroke.
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Bob
 
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