When I goose hunt I surround my layout with silhouette goose decoys. Put them right to the edge of your blind. It seems to help me and hope that does you.

 

Might try buying a green colored bed sheet, dirty it up a bit she cutting it into strips that you can brush up the layout with. Never tried it personally.

 

Sweet, thanks for input guys. Going to wing it and try both ideas. Its muddy so should be able to dirty up that sheet good lol :beer:

 

Hunt the edge. We have RARELY put layouts in the middle and been successful. IF.....your wheat is thick and luscious then MAYBE you can string garland throughout your layouts and MAYBE pull it off. It's better with cloudy day so you minimize your shadow but best bet is to hunt the edge out of the wheat

 

Hunt the edge. We have RARELY put layouts in the middle and been successful. IF.....your wheat is thick and luscious then MAYBE you can string garland throughout your layouts and MAYBE pull it off. It's better with cloudy day so you minimize your shadow but best bet is to hunt the edge out of the wheat

I agree that clouds help but I have also slayed them in the middle of wheat fields may times but the key is you need a ton of decoys. I agree with you if only using a couple of dozen. I usually use about 14-15 dozen with a mix of shells and skinnys which allows you to hide the layout pretty well. The problem is you can hide one or two hunters, but if you bring a ton of buddies you will be out of luck from what I have found.

On a side note, it is no fun to put out that many decoys, especially by yourself. It takes me about an hour and 15 minutes.

PS - Welcome to DHC

 

Hunt the edge. We have RARELY put layouts in the middle and been successful. IF.....your wheat is thick and luscious then MAYBE you can string garland throughout your layouts and MAYBE pull it off. It's better with cloudy day so you minimize your shadow but best bet is to hunt the edge out of the wheat

I agree that clouds help but I have also slayed them in the middle of wheat fields may times but the key is you need a ton of decoys. I agree with you if only using a couple of dozen. I usually use about 14-15 dozen with a mix of shells and skinnys which allows you to hide the layout pretty well. The problem is you can hide one or two hunters, but if you bring a ton of buddies you will be out of luck from what I have found.

On a side note, it is no fun to put out that many decoys, especially by yourself. It takes me about an hour and 15 minutes.

PS - Welcome to DHC

Good lord. Hope you got to drive on the wheat or pull right by the fence line. I should of added we have experienced better luck resident hunting in the middle as opposed to the winter we get 90% lessers. It's hard to hide from 1000 eyes circling directly on top of you

 

We have been hunting the wheat all season, only used layouts once and we hid at the edge. we use lay out chairs with garland if the wheat is really think but lately it has been on the thin side. we got camo netting from academy. 150 ft. of garland and weaved it through it green side up. a yoga mat to lay on and use your blind bag as a pillow. we zip tied 1-2 shells to the netting and have worked great every time. i bought some of that Avery wheat blind material and that's just a waste really. :thumbsup:

 

It is a week after xmas and you can't find some thing green to use to bush up a layout blind?

 

Go old school and use the giant g&h Canada shells

 

Go old school and use the giant g&h Canada shells

I have done that many times before I broke down and bought a layout. Throw them off when time to shoot.

 

Hunt the edge. We have RARELY put layouts in the middle and been successful. IF.....your wheat is thick and luscious then MAYBE you can string garland throughout your layouts and MAYBE pull it off. It's better with cloudy day so you minimize your shadow but best bet is to hunt the edge out of the wheat

I agree that clouds help but I have also slayed them in the middle of wheat fields may times but the key is you need a ton of decoys. I agree with you if only using a couple of dozen. I usually use about 14-15 dozen with a mix of shells and skinnys which allows you to hide the layout pretty well. The problem is you can hide one or two hunters, but if you bring a ton of buddies you will be out of luck from what I have found.

On a side note, it is no fun to put out that many decoys, especially by yourself. It takes me about an hour and 15 minutes.

PS - Welcome to DHC

Good lord. Hope you got to drive on the wheat or pull right by the fence line. I should of added we have experienced better luck resident hunting in the middle as opposed to the winter we get 90% lessers. It's hard to hide from 1000 eyes circling directly on top of you

Yep, when I put them all out it is when I can drive on the wheat. The farmer is pretty awesome to let me since most do not.

 

We have been hunting the wheat all season, only used layouts once and we hid at the edge. we use lay out chairs with garland if the wheat is really think but lately it has been on the thin side. we got camo netting from academy. 150 ft. of garland and weaved it through it green side up. a yoga mat to lay on and use your blind bag as a pillow. we zip tied 1-2 shells to the netting and have worked great every time. i bought some of that Avery wheat blind material and that's just a waste really. :thumbsup:

This^^^

We went to Hobby Lobby and bought rolls of Christmas tree garland, wove it through the stubble straps in linear fashion to resemble the rows of wheat sprouts drilled into the field.