Now that the season is over I can think about reworking my decoys and will start in a month or so. The first thing on my list is to Texas rig my teal. My question is how heavy of a decoy weight is required. I currently use 4 oz on everything but since they are smaller i thought I might could use less. I had wondered if 2 or 2 1/2 oz would be sufficient. This would save me weight walking in and some cash as well.
If your hunting where your weight is in vegetation or the bottom is very soft or there is no current then if day go for it. Only reason I run a slightly heavier weight is because we have a good amount of current and hard bottom.
Worse case scenario you don't like it, melt them down and poor heavier.
Weight for a particular decoy depends on several things;
Line length/water depth, windspeed, current speed (if any), bottom type, and type of anchor.
I use custom-poured 4 ounce mushroom-type weights on lines of a length that are at least twice what water depth is, over very soft bottoms. They hold in 4mph currents (line length there is 4-5 times water depth) and in 30 mph winds.
Long lines, small decoys, soft bottoms, calm winds and mushroom or grapple type weights should allow 1 ounce weights to work fine.
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