Sink Box Blinds illegal?

Like Sprite said, layouts are much easier, safer, and are deadly. That would be my choice.

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Originally Posted by waterrat

We used to make them on the East Coast, in tidal waters. It was ton of work, but great to shoot out of, your at water level. Only drawback was, that once in, they were public property. You could not claim one until it broke the tide, and you had to have a decoy out. If not done well, the current and tides would pop it like a cork, and she would be gone.

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I don't think we're all talking about the same thing here.

A true sink box is towed out on each outing, and is not left in place.

-Nick

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Originally Posted by longpointer

Sink boxes are usually used in tidal areas. Made out of concrete and pumped out before each use. This I remember from some old outdoor magazine from the States. Sounds like a lot of work/cost to me ? Guys are giving up on pit blinds in corn fields and just have the farmer leave a patch of standing corn for them to hide in.

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These are known as curtain blinds on the US Atlantic coast because on the top rim of the concrete box there is a waterproof curtain that can be raised and lowered with the changing tides. They are still legal in the USA but sink boxes are not.

Here is a curtain blind hunt video
https://youtu.be/Z_NZkoBvXkk

OK, thanks for the info.

The area we would be building it in is a shallow bay off a river going into a lake, so very calm, etc.

But it sounds like a layout blind in a boat is the way to go, I will have to do some more research as I am new to waterfowl hunting.

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Originally Posted by ChrisM23

OK, thanks for the info.

The area we would be building it in is a shallow bay off a river going into a lake, so very calm, etc.

But it sounds like a layout blind in a boat is the way to go, I will have to do some more research as I am new to waterfowl hunting.

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A layout boat does not mean a layout blind in a boat. A layout boat is a boat that is specifically designed for hunting in open water situations. A quick google search will show you what I mean.

I myself run Waterfowl-Works UFOs.

-Nick

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Originally Posted by Sprite

A layout boat does not mean a layout blind in a boat. A layout boat is a boat that is specifically designed for hunting in open water situations. A quick google search will show you what I mean.

I myself run Waterfowl-Works UFOs.

-Nick

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I have hunted from a UFO layout boat on Chesapeake Bay and thought it was a well built and designed boat. Light enough that the guide could carry and handle two of them in his tender. I felt safe and comfortable in it.

When I returned I found a used Bankes Pumpkinseed, there were no UFOs available up here. Now Bankes has shut down production, hunters here are fortunate that UFO's are now being exported to Ontario.

Hello Guys,

I will not dispute with what Sprite has said about Ontario but I know that guides in Quebec and Nova Scotia use sink boxes for divers. I personally prefer a layout boat since they are cheaper, dryer, easier to use, safer and probably just as effective hunting divers.

Jerome

This is a pretty good link to show one in use. Click on the video. One of our customers has one and I get invited every year to come to QC and try it.

https://www.sablesafari.com/uk-quebe...l-hunting.html

Legal in Canada. I do believe there is something about leaving something out in channels of navigable waters but not 100% sure on that, but the use of sinkboxes in Canada is legal.