re: Pull in Boat Blind Marsh Hunting

Yep. Except for a few blinds, most of the ones I hunted in in the marsh stick out terribly. Get s marsh stool and stay still.

Get a waterproof blind brah. I've got 2 cabelas that I use in shallow rice fields

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Got any pictures?

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Let me see if I can dig some up.

I agree that lower profile is better. This would be built in a section of broken marsh. 2-3' off the water with a 2' blind flap on the front and some sort of fixed bench on the back. We've hunted this lease for 4 years and the blinds are permanent. We threw the idea out because after time of people walking in and out of the blind it killed all the grass around our blind really making the blind obvious. My co hunters don't understand one path in, one path out and there dogs aren't well mannered. That said we have blinds and just brush them with tall rozo's and do very well even late season. One blind last year built a 6' tall roof and it looked like a big H sticking up after we lowered the roof 1.5' I shot 15 out of that pond on the last Saturday. I've hunted some blinds with my cousin on the SW side that you pull the boat behind and sit in the blind but my tidal marsh would make the blind too high plus the blind is very open at the top. and you have to brush the boat hide and the blind. Just seems like a lot of work. He still kills birds though.

This is what we do over there. Works very well.

Very nice

I hunt out of a small flatboat. Not sure this would work for a 17 footer and it won't work for a boat that if not uniformly olive drab or camo or at least dark and not shiny. You have to be able to motor or push pole the boat to where you want to go. Step one, cut all the cane you can fit in the boat and still drive it and pole it, maybe a little more. Step two, motor to where you want to hunt and park the boat there securely, usually near a bank. Step three, stick the cane in the mud. Deep. all around he boat except the stern and extend the sides a couple of feet past the stern. Step four, break the tops back in over the boat but leave enough room to move and for all tide conditions. You probably won't get a marsh level blind but lower profile does help. Step five, on opening day after you put out the decoys run or pole the boat into the blind. Use a pole or paddle to stick behind the stern. Put decoy sacks or burlap over the motor. Every couple of trips cut some extra cane to freshen up holes in the blind. This is the only kind of blind I've used for nearly forty years in Louisiana and in the Mobile delta. If you stay still and dress right it works. I usually build one for north and east winds and one for south and west winds. No hammers, boards, wire needed. Used to cut cane with a machete but started using pruners years ago and it's easier and neater.