HUNTING AND FISHING, CONTINUED
HUNTING AND FISHING
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Always be sure to load your boat properly.
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Try to keep equipment low and center. This will greatly help with your boats stability.
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Avoid quick movements. Use caution when retrieving a fish, collecting decoys, or firing your gun: all these actions can result in falls overboard emergencies, if you aren't careful.
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Remain seated as much as possible. When you have to move around the boat, always maintain 3 points of contact with the vessel. This will help you and the boat to remain stable.
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Slow down when you’re near other boaters, and show respect by limiting noise, which amplifies and travels over water.
- Avoid quick movements. Use caution when retrieving a fish, collecting decoys or firing your gun: all these actions can result in falls-overboard emergencies.
- Slow down around other boaters, and show respect by limiting noises, which travels clearly over water.
Wear a life jacket. Too many hunters and anglers are lost every year when they fall overboard. Whether retrieving a trophy fish or shooting game, you must realize how easily you can fall overboard. Wearing a life jacket can save your life. New styles of life jackets that don't restrict movement are now available in camouflage colors.
Give anglers and hunters a wide berth. Anglers are casting all around their vessel and hunters are firing guns - stay clear! A boat's wake could swamp an angler's boat. Additionally, anglers who are trolling may have their fishing line out a fair distance behind them - if you approach too closely, your boat could sever their fishing line.
