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Hey all,
This is my first season hunting ducks and geese, and I'm obsessed now. I've been hunting some permanent blinds on a swampy oxbow, mainly getting wood ducks and widgeons. 500 yards in the distance I watch Canada geese and mallard flocks flying along the main river corridor and rarely I can get some mallards to turn to my calls. So I'm looking to change my location to target the Canada geese and mallards setting up under that flyway - and looking into decoy options and setups. I have permission on the land that goes up the river, but I have no dog so I can't shoot birds over the water or they will float away. My setup options are an open grass field that they geese fly over, or a big gravel bar where I've seen ducks and geese flying over. Near the gravel bar there are a couple eddies and a swampy oxbow hole.
I bought 4 floater Canadas thinking of putting them in the eddy, but now I've been reading about silhouettes and wondering if a dozen of those would be more versatile for putting on the field or directly on the gravel bar. I see many posts about guys using 3 to 30 dozen silos, but can 1 dozen work if I am on the flyway? Are the Cabelas silos decent or would you recommend something else? The cabelas mallard floaters have been working ok so far.
Is it a bad call to try to put out mallards and Canadas together? I'm after both - but I'm mainly interested in what's going to work best. Any advice is welcome, appreciate your help! - Sean
This is my first season hunting ducks and geese, and I'm obsessed now. I've been hunting some permanent blinds on a swampy oxbow, mainly getting wood ducks and widgeons. 500 yards in the distance I watch Canada geese and mallard flocks flying along the main river corridor and rarely I can get some mallards to turn to my calls. So I'm looking to change my location to target the Canada geese and mallards setting up under that flyway - and looking into decoy options and setups. I have permission on the land that goes up the river, but I have no dog so I can't shoot birds over the water or they will float away. My setup options are an open grass field that they geese fly over, or a big gravel bar where I've seen ducks and geese flying over. Near the gravel bar there are a couple eddies and a swampy oxbow hole.
I bought 4 floater Canadas thinking of putting them in the eddy, but now I've been reading about silhouettes and wondering if a dozen of those would be more versatile for putting on the field or directly on the gravel bar. I see many posts about guys using 3 to 30 dozen silos, but can 1 dozen work if I am on the flyway? Are the Cabelas silos decent or would you recommend something else? The cabelas mallard floaters have been working ok so far.
Is it a bad call to try to put out mallards and Canadas together? I'm after both - but I'm mainly interested in what's going to work best. Any advice is welcome, appreciate your help! - Sean