The hunting/fishing thread!

[muddy75]

Got another snowshoe yesterday with a 20 ga.
Any muzzleloader hunters here? Plan to hunt whitetail with mine.

We actually started with muzzleloader before we added the rifles

 

[muddy75]

Time to start thinking about fishing season!!! of course some like @duluthralphie are already ice fishing

 

[muddy75]

I need some help!! Mr Muddy wants to downsize toys this year and get 1 good catfish boat. Looking at different options new and used. I know several of you already have cool fishing boats so please tell me more!! to help me make a decision!!
@sealer39 @sdm111

 

[duluthralphie]

I did not know this thread was here.

If the WW had not fell ill I would be fishing right now.

I have all my fishing gear into one chest that won’t take up too much space. Those darn tip-ups take up so much space. You do know what they are don’t you?

Of course, my drill, batteries, ice spikes, ice anchors and the buckets didn’t fit in the case.

 

[duluthralphie]

I need some help!! Mr Muddy wants to downsize toys this year and get 1 good catfish boat. Looking at different options new and used. I know several of you already have cool fishing boats so please tell me more!! to help me make a decision!!
@sealer39 @sdm111

I actually use a Southie boat for most my fishing.
It handles big water well and is a dream in shallow water. I have been 60 miles out in the gulf with it and I have been in some small slow rivers. It’s an 18 footer.

That’s it at the end of my dock.

I have a 65 up Yamaha on it I wish I had a 75. This was my first 4 cycle and they don’t have the power in the hole of a 2cycle. I had to decrease the pitch of the prop by a degree.

It will still do over 30mph and creep into about 6 inches of water. It’s light to trailer. You can fish 3 in but 2 is way better. It’s unsinkable like a Boston whaler but way cheaper. Mine is 14 years old now, I like it as much as the day I bought it.




Here it is a little closer, forgive the mess in it, I was fishing.

 

[sdm111]

I need some help!! Mr Muddy wants to downsize toys this year and get 1 good catfish boat. Looking at different options new and used. I know several of you already have cool fishing boats so please tell me more!! to help me make a decision!!
@sealer39 @sdm111

I have a custom 19x48 all 3/16 aluminum flat bottom that would be a good catfish boat all you would need to do is put one of those galvanized livestock round troughs in it and it would be set. Around here there's alot of boat builders that build to your specs so you can have it built exactly like you want

 

[sdm111]

If you wanted to get fancy you could get you a 37hp gator tail surface drive for it

 

[duluthralphie]

I have a custom 19x48 all 3/16 aluminum flat bottom that would be a good catfish boat all you would need to do is put one of those galvanized livestock round troughs in it and it would be set. Around here there's alot of boat builders that build to your specs so you can have it built exactly like you want

Why do you want a stock tank in your boat?

 

[sdm111]

Why do you want a stock tank in your boat?

We use them to put the catfish in so they stay alive till cleaning
Smaller boat put one of the oval ones in it

Either with just enough water to cover the fish

 

[sdm111]

Gotta have something running lines. You don't want a bunch of dead fish laying around. Or at least I don't