Church Decoy Company

Since room is a premium in a duck boat, I thought I would add some of my tricks over the years. 1) I usually tie my decoy bags off at the oar locks and let them float in the water outside the boat. I travel slow to the blind anyway and this always gives me an enormous amount of room in the boat when the decoys are out of the boat. 2) I run all my electrical wiring through PVC and attach the PVC to the side of the boat. This prevents the dog from cathing wires and breaking them. 3) I camo the inside of the boat more than the outside since the weeds will cover the sides of my boat and this prevents the ducks from looking down and seeing my boat interior. 4) I switched trailer lights to led and will never go back. If you use the old style, unplug the lights before putting the trailer into the cold water to prevent them from popping. 5) I never go out anymore without my GPS. Most times its not needed, but I recall a morning in the fog that became very dangerous. I could not see anything in front of me andf the light just reflected off of the fog. I could hear other boats in the fog which was even more scary. The GPS quickly put me on course and kept me from going in circles with a reference point to go by. Just a few ideas, who else has some more? dc

My TDB ( The Duck Boat) is an 18' fiberglass with a 50hp Merc. It draws only8" and can be used in big water or shallow. It was the 2nd boat out of the molds in 1988. I have hunted and fished with it every year and it still has many more years to go. It is one of the best duck boats out there. As far a being safe, it will take anything the Chesapeake can throw it's way.

It will shoot 4 hunters, but three is better. I usually rig out with 6-8 doz bluebill, cans and redheads mixed. I also bring 6-8 goldeneye and the same number of buffleheads. I also bring some Mallard and geese decoys along.

Although the blind is rigged with loops for grassing I have never use any grass, reeds or other add ons. As you can see by the pic the camo pattern is not bad the ducks have never shied from the boat not being grassed. I had a flock of cans sneak up from a blind side once and almost hit my head.

I also have a Carstans Mallard boat for the ponds and swamp it is a great boat for a single hunter.

This year I bought a Hobie, Outback kayak that is rigged for fishing and hunting can't wait to use it this season.

That's a great looking boat. I am in the process of building a sneak boat to hunt Southern Maryland this year. I just posted pics of the progress. Should be glassing it this weekend. The pics are in the photo gallery.