Any float/canoe hunters here?

[Richard Flanders]

I used to shoot ducks on a small creek from a canoe. It's a salmon spawning creek and the ducks come in for the eggs, which makes them taste....well, let's just say not so good. Very fun shooting though, either by myself or with a paddler with me or them in the bow and doing the shooting and a retriever in the middle. About the funnest duck shooting I've ever had. Only lost my gun in the drink once and had to strip down and dive 6ft for it. It was a Miroku Daly 12ga O/U. Nice gun and worth diving for. I currently love to hunt out of my Poke Boat(see DU mag ads). It's 14ft long and made of thin kevlar and weighs 24#, I think. I can hook the tow line around my waist and easily drag it over mud or wet grass to the next pond. It only draws maybe 3" of water with me and gear in it so will get me into all sorts of places when the water is low and the motor boats(other than the Mud Buddy)are out of luck. Nice wide beam so pretty stable. It will hold 10 decoys stuffed in the bow and stern. I tether the paddle so I can drop it and grab my gun and shoot if ducks come over while I'm paddling. When I had a white bladed paddle the flashing blades worked like a robo duck when I was paddling. My hunting partners said they could see them flashing from over 1/2mil away. Almost tipped it in the middle of a lake once when trying to shoot to the right; haven't tried that since. Advise tethering your gun with 1/8" dia nylon cord....