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Re: Trapping boats [Re: wws] #7986604
11/04/23 11:11 AM
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This is great swamp boat



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Re: Trapping boats [Re: coonman220] #7987146
11/05/23 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by coonman220
Where good site online to checkout mud motors ? Anyone heard someone get hurt bad with mud motor ? Heard story of one hit log in water an prop catch on it an swing tail shaft up in boat by operater

Mine is an SPS (Mudmotorkit. Com)


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Re: Trapping boats [Re: coonman220] #7987322
11/05/23 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by coonman220
Originally Posted by beaverpeeler
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14’ Jon with a 15 hp short shaft outboard. I have hauled as many as 24 beaver in it and with no console I can get under a lot of river brush to get to a bank I want to set. I can cruise at about 20 mph and go all day on 4-5 gallons of gas.
I wouldn’t get anything bigger as it would put a serious crimp in how I trap.
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That looks like fun. Yet dangerous in pic of deep water. What u set half submerge 330s at lures sets or what kinda set in river pic ?

Mostly those 330’s are mostly out of the water guarding castor mounds. Btw, I take that Jon out in lakes with 2.5 foot whitecaps sometimes. No issue other that it gets bumpy. Never feel it’s too dangerous


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Re: Trapping boats [Re: wws] #7987326
11/05/23 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by wws
Hey Beaverpeeler is that a 14-36 or 14-48 ?

14-48


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Re: Trapping boats [Re: wws] #7987374
11/05/23 02:41 PM
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Looks like I am not the only one that likes this kind of boat. Been a lot of fish caught with it also

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Re: Trapping boats [Re: wws] #7987378
11/05/23 02:48 PM
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The sloped up front lets you get right up on the bank. step from the boat onto dry land. Running a tiller leaves a lot of room in the middle for dead stuff and traps. toss in a couple folding chairs to sit in the middle for drift fishing.


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Re: Trapping boats [Re: Hutchy] #7987385
11/05/23 03:09 PM
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Hutch,
Sorry for my ignorance.
Is the georgian bay boat a company or is that a style?
Nice looking boar.
Mac



Re: Trapping boats [Re: wws] #7987411
11/05/23 04:08 PM
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Alumacraft T16-XL. Only made for a stretch in the 80s. Rated 40 horse. Won't find that horsepower rating today in a new similar boat. Lightweight, yet strong.

35 horse longtail Go Devil. Very versatile. You can really load up the front end and the 35 will kick it up on plane quickly.

Found a 3500 pound Shorelander trailer, used, that I can slip under it at the boat landing and haul everything back no problem.

V-bows are good to go in river trapping. Whenever you tie up at the bank, the boat always swings parallel to the shore anyway.

My second trapping rig is an Alumacraft T-14 V-bow with a 9 horse longtail Go Devil. Good rig for early ice/late ice situations on the river, or when the landing is suddenly shut down with snow and you can skid this rig across and into the drink.

Re: Trapping boats [Re: beaverpeeler] #7987423
11/05/23 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by beaverpeeler
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BP . . . port side dimple there. Must've been drifting downstream sideways with a load in the boat, eh?

Re: Trapping boats [Re: danny clifton] #7987466
11/05/23 05:56 PM
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Mines similar to Danny's. Crestliner 16.5 Retriever with a 40 hp Mercury. If you go with a Jon boat , get a modified v. Takes a chop better.


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Re: Trapping boats [Re: Muskrat] #7987498
11/05/23 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Muskrat
Originally Posted by beaverpeeler
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BP . . . port side dimple there. Must've been drifting downstream sideways with a load in the boat, eh?

Nah, was pulling the trailer and drove into a ditch. Trailer flew off and came down on its side.
(Don’t text and drive). Lol


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Re: Trapping boats [Re: wws] #7987527
11/05/23 07:50 PM
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Looks like I’m buying a Tracker Grizzly 1448, with a Suzuki 20. Engine is a 2016 electric start with 12 hours on it from the dealer putting the computer on it. Dealer is not the one selling it. Be a lot different than the McKenzie style drift boat I have trapped out of. No more trying to hitch hike back up river with a gun.

Re: Trapping boats [Re: wws] #7987535
11/05/23 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by beaverpeeler

Nah, was pulling the trailer and drove into a ditch. Trailer flew off and came down on its side.
(Don’t text and drive). Lol


Good one! Almost the same location in the fishing/hunting boat. Had a couple of lard arses in the boat drifting a small river bow hunting and got hung up on some timber. Was touch and go there for a minute or two. Current really had us pinned. Look along that port side a little further back and you can see the dimple.

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Re: Trapping boats [Re: wws] #7987538
11/05/23 08:07 PM
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Yup. I see it. I’ve had a few hair raising episodes myself over the years


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Re: Trapping boats [Re: wws] #7987539
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BP is your a 36 or 48 wide? Have not seen you for a while.

Re: Trapping boats [Re: wws] #7987584
11/05/23 08:55 PM
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Muskrat that one with the lady up front, is that boat an alumacraft?

Re: Trapping boats [Re: RustyShacklefrd] #7987587
11/05/23 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by RustyShacklefrd
Muskrat that one with the lady up front, is that boat an alumacraft?


18' Lowe

an excellent fishing boat, drafts very little, and very stable

If I lived in a rocky area I'd go welded, but see no need for that down here on the Wisconsin River or in the Mississippi.

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Re: Trapping boats [Re: Mac] #7987609
11/05/23 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Mac
Hutch,
Sorry for my ignorance.
Is the georgian bay boat a company or is that a style?
Nice looking boar.
Mac


We have several companies in the area that make similar boats. Stanley boats are the most well known.

Plate welded aluminum boats that will literally last several lifetimes.

Google stanley predator . That would be my next boat if I needed one

Re: Trapping boats [Re: wws] #7987671
11/06/23 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by wws
BP is your a 36 or 48 wide? Have not seen you for a while.

Mine is a 14-48 riveted. Got a bunch of fatigued aluminum welded up and a few holes here and there. It’s watertight to start the season anyway.
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Re: Trapping boats [Re: beaverpeeler] #7987675
11/06/23 12:16 AM
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Originally Posted by beaverpeeler
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14’ Jon with a 15 hp short shaft outboard. I have hauled as many as 24 beaver in it and with no console I can get under a lot of river brush to get to a bank I want to set. I can cruise at about 20 mph and go all day on 4-5 gallons of gas.
I wouldn’t get anything bigger as it would put a serious crimp in how I trap.
[Linked Image]

Very Nice


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