Grassing sneakbox

[Carl]

Spartina patens and alternaflora are invasives on the west coast.

Funny related story:
At one of our restoration conferences, the presentation prior to mine was by a San Francisco area biologist on how they are trying to control Spartina to help rail populations in the Bay Area.

I then got up and told all about how I was restoring marshes in coastal Alabama, planting Spartina, which is a great benefit to, wait for it, you guessed it, rails!

I told her to pull up all the Spartina plugs she could and ship them back to me and I would put them to great use.

 

[Wesley Bouchelle]

I was going to make decoy racks for the bow but now im just going to make grass rails for the bow and also for the stern part of the deck.

 

[Craig F]

Salt hay works well if you are going to hunt south jersey a lot. I don't have a lot of it locally where I live but I've been grassing my decoy racks with it the last couple seasons since I've been hunting south jersey more and more. Nothing blends better than natural vegetation and I usually cut a bunch of spartina to blend. I have some very weathered fastgrass mats that I'll throw on my canvas as a base layer too.

This shot was from the last day of the season this past year and the salt hay was beat down pretty good. The one good thing about it is that I can usually get two seasons out of it before replacing all of it. Just need to trim it well so you don't get any drag on the water or risk icing the boat up.

Opening day a few years ago in the spartina.

These sneakbox discussions always drag me back in from my offseason fog ha ha. Just stuck this nice bluefin last week.

 

[Tom Scholberg]

I use a lot of baling twine on a bungee cord because it dries out fast, cheap and weathers to a nice color. When I do grass up I dig out the gas powered hedge trimmer a couple weeks before opener, what a great equalizer. buzz, buzz, buzz. Pretty much use whatever I can find that matches.

 

[Steve Sanford]

Craig~

Thanks for the great photos - sure makes me homesick for the Great South Bay...

All the best,

SJS

 

[Craig F]

One more for you Steve, though this is more Barnegat than GSB.

 

[Wesley Bouchelle]

Craig every picture you put up that boat looks better and better each time I see the pictures i hope i can get my boat looking like that soon !!!

 

[Steve Sanford]

Craig~

You're killing me! How am I going to wait 'til January????

All the best,

SJS