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re: Squirrel from Boat
Posted on 10/7/25 at 6:57 am to Dicky
Posted on 10/7/25 at 6:57 am to Dicky
When the water is high, I’ll kayak the Amite River swamp and hunt squirrels. I’ll dip the sunken ones with a net, just paddle over quickly and look for bubbles then dip directly below to find the squirrel. What’s fun, is when you shoot from a kayak with a shotgun, you get propelled in the opposite direction until you bump into a cypress knee.
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Posted on 10/7/25 at 7:31 am to Koolazzkat
I hate to interrupt a good, chasing squirrels from a boat thread but what happened to the thread with the guy building the boat in his garage?
I searched and can not find it. Was looking for his progress. Anyone have a link?
TIA
I searched and can not find it. Was looking for his progress. Anyone have a link?
TIA
Posted on 10/7/25 at 7:45 am to bearhc
Done many a blast and cast on the Beouf River, chunking for bass and popping squirrels. Fun shite.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 8:06 am to Dicky
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Honestly in our area most of the time the squirrel is going to land in the water. Usually they float just enough to be able to scoop 'em up with a paddle or net, depending on how they've been eating I guess. Sometimes just their tail is floating and can be very hard to find.
In my experience they float long enough, most of the time, to scoop em up with a net. I have only shot them with a shotgun though so when they hit the water it wasn't more than 30 feet or so from the boat...I suspect if you were shooting them 100 yards away with a .22 they might sink before you could get to them. With a shotgun they are usually still alive and trying to swim to the hill. I haven't done it in years but I do not remember there being a lot of urgency in retrieving them and don't remember losing very many if any....
Posted on 10/7/25 at 8:09 am to baldona
They don't float in my experience, the tail floats upward. I had a lab that would retrieve anything. Though the first time, on land, she looks at me like WTF is this?
Posted on 10/7/25 at 3:53 pm to baldona
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I’m ignorant here, but assuming they float? You are shooting them over the water and picking them up by boat?
Saw some locals hunting squirrel from a boat in Lake Verret years ago.
They'd idle around, kill the motor, shoot the squirrel, then their lab would jump out and retrieve.
It was an amazingly efficient process.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 4:05 pm to Shexter
My Dad hunts that area just that way, could have been him.
Posted on 10/7/25 at 4:17 pm to SETH6180
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My Dad hunts that area just that way, could have been him.
This was Bayou Magazille out of Attakapas Landing
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