the best decoy spread
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When you say lay out, do you mean field or water???
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for Lards I put out a u shape pattern made up of pods, with my motion dekes or "special Teams" out by the honey hole. Adding more pods as season progresses
For Divers: a J hook seems to work the best for me.
Geese: well... about six in one little pod works for me where i hunt.
For Divers: a J hook seems to work the best for me.
Geese: well... about six in one little pod works for me where i hunt.
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Does it really matter which set-up you use for puddle ducks or divers? Is it by nature that ducks typically group themselves by a J or a U shaped spread? Or is this one fella's opinion to anothers?
Some say what you are saying TBC. But others say, and I am am with this crowd, that the art of decoying is attracting and the funnelling of birds to within good close shooting distances. As for the "J" it works plain and simple from my experience. They were talking J Hooks over 30 years ago and still are. And puddlers like to land in "holes" of the decoy spread. Thus the U works as does "pods" or family groups of ducks with space between them.
Very similar is duck calling---how often have you heard a Mallard give a high ball call? It is not natural, but it works to get their attention. How often have you seen a duck just hovering with its wings spinning? But it works when using a spinner. Decoying, calling, etc are attention getters to lure birds in-simple as that.
Very similar is duck calling---how often have you heard a Mallard give a high ball call? It is not natural, but it works to get their attention. How often have you seen a duck just hovering with its wings spinning? But it works when using a spinner. Decoying, calling, etc are attention getters to lure birds in-simple as that.
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The one that brings in my limit that day :yes:
Oh my favorite decoys spread is when the ducks are so thick it doen't matter how we put em out. Or when you can let ducks land in front of you they are good decoys.
I just throw a couple dozed to the right of my permanent blind and two more dozen on the right 30 yards inbetween both sets of decoys. I put geese out at 40 yards that way once they fly past the geese i know they are in range. Plus i get geese comin in to look, alot of which never made it south.
I just throw a couple dozed to the right of my permanent blind and two more dozen on the right 30 yards inbetween both sets of decoys. I put geese out at 40 yards that way once they fly past the geese i know they are in range. Plus i get geese comin in to look, alot of which never made it south.
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