Mud/duck boat recs

I have an 18x51 prodigy boat. I bought it with a gator tail and then switched to an outboard because I pretty much quit duck hunting and found myself fishing a lot. It’s a flat bottom with a v rake. The v pushes the water from waves out instead of over the top like an all flat bottom. I had 3 seat bases put in the floor so I could put seats for me and 2 buddies when we were in the blind. It has a flip up blind on it. It’s a good boat for duck hunting, I just wish I would have known I was going to put an outboard because I would’ve made it 19x60. But for a mud motor, the 18x51 is pretty much perfect. Also, I would make sure you get a hunt deck and add corner steps on the hunt deck. Makes it easier to get in and out with waders on. Gatorglide and hydro turf are 2 good products for a duck boat too.

Build an Uncle J. I had a timber creek before and my new uncle J shits all over that boat. Great company and would 1000% build another rig with them.

This is on my to do list. I made a thread about go devils and gator tails and outboards. I'm trying to absorb more about freshwater boats, but the baws I duck hunt with have had their boats forever and they're just aluminum boats with an outboard or a gator tail or go devil. I'm sure you can find a good boat used but if you didn't know boats well or know the seller (as in my case) I would be hesitant. For hunting rivers and freshwater lakes and swamps is the flat bottom better than a v hull if it gets super shallow?

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Yeah, flat bottoms draft less water. Also going to be better for jumping over logs and those arse chapping stumps that sit an inch under the water.

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Thanks, that is what I thought. It will probably be a while of researching and saving but I'll get a duck boat eventually. Alot of public land spots open up when you have a good boat that you otherwise couldn't hunt. That and finding a spot on a river and getting in good with some locals and building a floating blind or something.

Might look into a pirogue or kayak in the meantime just to have.

Save your money from a “duck boat” and go on 2-3 trips a year to Arkansas or the Midwest for some nice weekends.

I only say this from the last 5 years of duck production in Louisiana.

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Save your money from a “duck boat” and go on 2-3 trips a year to Arkansas or the Midwest for some nice weekends.

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That’s what I do but I hunted Delacroix. Opening day 2019 I didn’t shoot my gun. That was it for me. Sold my boat and go on trips.

Just took deliver of an 18x60 Uncle J with a 40 GTR right before Christmas.

Love the boat. Definitely recommend the company, when I was putting together my build sheet with Jason, he told me that if it can be made out aluminum, he’ll build it. Just costs money

All the coonasses used outboards to crawfish the swamps before go devils. If you need to jump logs, long tail, got to back out of thick shite prodrive. If you know where you’re going, and want to do it fast, gatortail. They all have their pluses and minuses.

I have owned a 16/36 godevil duck skiff for the last 8 years. In 2016 I changed the 16hp long tail to a 25hp mud buddy mini. I hunt the marshes of Southwest LA and I can hide this boat with ease just by running it into the Roseau canes and popping the blind up. It’s been a great boat, but with son wanting to take buddies hunting, I had to get a bigger boat. This one will be up for sale at the end of the season. It’s a great boat to get to places others in larger boats can’t.