Dave Genz's "Holey Boat

[Lee Borgersen]

             Dave Genz's "Holey Boat."



Great Lakes Outdoor Writers: Dave Genz demonstrates how his Hole-e-Boat uses ice fishing tactics for open water fishing action.

 

That's right, a boat with an intentional hole in it. Crazy cool how someone would even think of that:


> ...Holey Boat, a flat-bottomed craft into which a pair of holes have been cut and then topped with something like a stovepipe. Ice-fishing-style Vexilar fish sounders are mounted, and anglers fish through the hole at the top of the pipe, just as if it were a hole in the ice.

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> The angler, closer to the line and rod tip, can better watch what's going on there. More importantly, that angler sees what the fishfinder screen shows -- the presence or arrival of fish, and how they react to the bait and presentation.


> By all accounts, the results are astounding. "Every time, people fishing in the holes in the (boat) outfish people fishing over the side."

                                                       
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[deadeye]

I would not be interested in this option.  I spend enough time in winter looking down a hole in the ice, don't need to look down a hole in my boat. 

[Boar]

I think he's reaching on that one.

[The General]

I would not be interested in this option.  I spend enough time in winter looking down a hole in the ice, don't need to look down a hole in my boat. 

+1

[snow1]

agreed,just another gimmmic,com'on dave you can do better than that!

" By all accounts, the results are astounding. "Every time, people fishing in the holes in the (boat) outfish people fishing over the side"

Oh sure they do,yup,cough,cough!

[Onin24Eagle]

Do that to an airboat with 2 holes per fisherman and you have yourself the ultimate early ice rig.  Other than that it doesn't seem practical.