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Rubber coated anchors #8531624 02/15/22 12:04 AM
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Thinking of dipping my anchors in rubber coating as an offseason project. Then got to thinking is this stuff durable, will it absorb water and start breaking apart and deteriorating when it freezes. Several manufacturers that make the rubber coating dipping liquid, any particular one better than the other?


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Re: Rubber coated anchors [Re: 2flyfish4] #8531648 02/15/22 12:40 AM
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Rhino Liner or the equivalent.


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Flex Seal, I've seen it on TV so it must be the best there is. Truth in advertising right???

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Originally Posted by Blank
Flex Seal, I've seen it on TV so it must be the best there is. Truth in advertising right???

Yeah, you can saw your boat in half and glue it back together with that stuff.

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Why coat them?

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To keep them from dinging up the decoys


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Originally Posted by 2flyfish4
To keep them from dinging up the decoys



If youre texas rigged they should be up under the decoys when carrying.

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I just throw my texas rig decoys in the decoy bag, I dont worry about a carabiner and tying them up


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Originally Posted by 2flyfish4
I just throw my texas rig decoys in the decoy bag, I dont worry about a carabiner and tying them up


I'm in the camp thats says......if your hunting puddle ducks in shallow water and your using a few dozen or more dekes....Tx rigging with the lifetime line is the BOMB. Now that said, my 400lb clear mono line I've had for 5 years is still in great shape but if/when I re rig them it will be the brown lifetime line....(so ditch that decoy bag is my point) and I wouldn't coat the weight with nothing

BTW.....don't use those lines/weights that now come with some decoys....they are JUNK. Buy the line and weights separate and make them yourself.

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Well no reason for a bag if you are hunting out of a boat. But when you walk in like me its a whole lot easier to put everything in a quality decoy bag.


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Originally Posted by 2flyfish4
Well no reason for a bag if you are hunting out of a boat. But when you walk in like me its a whole lot easier to put everything in a quality decoy bag.


I hear ya...8 years ago in my first serious year of duck hunting I walked in all season. But I knew after that season I'd be going water craft, which evolved from a yak, small aluminum project boat, to 20 foot beast today.

If I knew I was going to go back to walking in I'd....get a backpack type blind bag, lightest decoys yet quality ones I could buy (lifetime decoys is what I'd buy right now if I had to start fresh), the smaller jet sled they sell and gun of choice. The decoys would have 1 or 2 ounce weights. Dekes and gun would go in sled and I'd be wearing my blind bag. walking stick in hand and go put some boot leather down! Oh, I'd put gatorglide on the bottom of the sled and put bid wooden dowel handles on it

Ditch the decoy bag

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Originally Posted by 2flyfish4
Well no reason for a bag if you are hunting out of a boat. But when you walk in like me its a whole lot easier to put everything in a quality decoy bag.

I use tex-rig for walk-in hunting. I carry 18 very light deeks, 2 sets of 9, clip on wader O-Rings, sling over both shoulders, works great. Been doing that for years...

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