Hank Fish
Active member
Jeff, you need to do more than netting and paint, it may work well in some instances but overall it does not work on wary puddlers here.
Dave hit the nail on the head, you need to really cover the top also, it only takes 1 peek down in the opening and the birds are gone.
We have no trouble putting puddlers in our face on Champlain, this is what my boat looks like and it is a 1760 with a 36 ProDrive on it.
Youth weekend with my daughter, extra green (cedar) for the early season
Later: I pulled all the green after this picture was taken....but we still killed a limit of mallards and blacks
Dave hit the nail on the head, you need to really cover the top also, it only takes 1 peek down in the opening and the birds are gone.
We have no trouble putting puddlers in our face on Champlain, this is what my boat looks like and it is a 1760 with a 36 ProDrive on it.
Youth weekend with my daughter, extra green (cedar) for the early season
Later: I pulled all the green after this picture was taken....but we still killed a limit of mallards and blacks