Hunting from a canoe?

[albravo2]

Planning a fly-in moose hunt in 2019 up in the northwest and will have access to a canoe and many miles of coastline. This has to be one of the oldest ways of hunting in Canada but I know absolutely nothing about it.

Anybody have some tips or tricks about this style of hunting?

[Wild one]

Don’t tip you will get wet

[Bugle M In]

Definitely waterproof bags for gear.

[Rieber]

Take the red and black Mackinaw jacket and a camera. This sounds like a memory filled trip.

[Would Rather Be Fishing]

Take the red and black Mackinaw jacket and a camera. This sounds like a memory filled trip.

Filson? Does any hunter REALLY wear Filson?

@albravo2: Will you be the only one in a Canoe or are there others (and other watercraft) with you? You mentioned coastline... you planning on doing coastal waters in a canoe? Or a sea kayak? Depending on the above the safety gear would vary greatly....

[TreeStandMan]

I'm far from an expert, but have done a small amount of hunting from a canoe.

My advice:

• Wear a life-jacket
• Have a ditch bag with your essentials (fire starter, first aid kit, epirb, emergency blanket, para cord, etc)
• Run long painters (maybe 20-25 feet) fore and aft
• Get a dry bag for your gun
• Tie all your gear into the boat, so if it goes over you don't lose it all.

My partner and I took on major water going though standing waves in the North Thompson, and we did all of the above, and it turned what could have been a disaster into a bad afternoon.

[albravo2]

Filson? Does any hunter REALLY wear Filson?

@albravo2: Will you be the only one in a Canoe or are there others (and other watercraft) with you? You mentioned coastline... you planning on doing coastal waters in a canoe? Or a sea kayak? Depending on the above the safety gear would vary greatly....

Lakes only. I wondered if coastline still applied but couldn't think of another word for lakeshore, which would have made more sense anyway, now that I think about it.

[albravo2]

I'm OK with respect to safety gear etc, I've done a bit of paddling. More curious about technique for spotting, stalking and shooting from a floating platform.

I've come pretty close to moose and bears while paddling, though never in hunting season. I'm curious of animals perceive less threat from an object on the water.

[Ferenc]

Have a buddy that all he uses is a canoe ..... he also uses pontoons with it .. something to look at .

[walks with deer]

ha ha ha,

launched on the harrison 1 cold jan morning with two buddies...
all wearing floater coats safe as possibe.

we went and set up and i think it was my chubby freind kept moving in the blind a d he left his crome coffee cup out most birds flaired..

on the way back dont know how non of us jacketed up where paddling upstream as a larg flock comes swooping down less than 30 yards
2 180lbs men and 1 260 pound man all empty are shotguns off the same side ..in a cloud of feather and guns smoke i say boys now thats are dumbest yet..

shooting no issue...you can generally paddle close.