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| Posted: 23 Apr 2006 10:35 AM | ||
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What's your decoy spread consist of? I'm making new decoys & would like to hear from other hunters. In swamps/timber i'll use 1/2 dozen mallards & a spinner or 4 on a jerk string . big open water doz mallards, a few pintails for color & 1/2 doz to a doz geese. On moving water some mallards, woodies, pair geese.
This year I want to mix in some buffies, ringnecks, gadwalls & more blacks. |
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| Posted: 25 Apr 2006 2:18 PM | ||
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| 1dz mallards 2 mojos 4 woodies and 2 geese oh and mallard machine | ||
| Posted: 25 Apr 2006 3:14 PM | ||
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Doz Green Heads, 1/2 blacks, 1/2 wigeon, 4 wood ducks, & 4 teal for puddlers.
For divers like to use 100+ Blue bills, Red Heads, or Cans inter mixed in group, w/ black and Green Heads places on the opposite side. thumbs down  to mojos just something else to go wrong
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| Posted: 25 Apr 2006 3:29 PM | ||
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I cover the inland water spreads. If we 100+ you better come & start carving some! And your driving to the Bay, So I can sleep. Thats way to far/early at 3:30 in the morning LOL |
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| Posted: 25 Apr 2006 3:38 PM | ||
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| Well tell you what I have enough wood for you to carve. But Restle decoys has the big water rig covered. | ||
| Posted: 25 Apr 2006 3:40 PM Last Edited By: yoda4x4 | ||
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Hey Bob,
What kind of wood are you carving them decoys out of? I would think it would have to be something soft. No??? Speaking of decoy making, I think I'll be making some geese silhouettes soon. David __________________ NJ... Where fun comes to die!
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| Posted: 25 Apr 2006 4:14 PM | ||
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My decoy spread has alot to do with what the birds are doing. I take the standard spread, but seldom put out all I have. I see guys in the meadow throw out every dame thing in Macks Praire Wings. Only to shoot at them in the pass, never any stooling birds.
I like to be where the birds are at or going. Not just be in the area. I mean on this point or that small 6' wide ditch. I play the decoy game, to match the birds. With geese, if I get to the fields early, I only use a few (18) decoys. As the field I hunt are the ones they are hitting then any way. If I'm trying to get them to use a field they are not using, then it could be a couple hundred, all according to how many guys. Ducks, I like to keep it simple. I think camo and hiding yourself well is the key to that. Also, knowing when to call, the right call and getting them talking back at you is the secret. Ryan |
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| Posted: 26 Apr 2006 11:31 AM | ||
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| never had a problem w/ mojos but i have had ducks land on them | ||
| Posted: 26 Apr 2006 12:13 PM | ||
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Now that I've lost my little "almost top secret" honey hole on the bay in Monmouth County, I feel like giving up the sport .... pretty bummed out. My cousin in Maryland has made me "an offer I can't refuse" on my old heavy 3.5 Browning pump gun and all my decoys (some I carved), etc. I'll probably let him have it.
But probably come end of summer, that feeling will start to come over me, thinking about cold and wet sun-ups with a call around my neck. Or late afternoons...don't matter, I just love it. I live in Rockaway now....maybe I can find some ducks along the river. Anyway, I never went too crazy with species. I pretty much divided my puddlers from divers, concentrating more on wind/set-up. One thing I always did was have some kind of white bird. After sitting so many hours "watching the gr [no swearing please] blow," I noticed how much white shows on gray days. I don't know....maybe I've been scaring 'em away with my bright white gulls, etc. 
Jim |
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| Posted: 08 Nov 2006 2:50 PM | ||
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| I use the inflatable decoys from cherockee sports, 6 mallards, 4 drake 2 hen and 6 gadwalls, I like the color I use 6 inflatable Canadas if geese are around and if not I leave them home. i used to use 1 dozen black ducks. i get all species come into these deccoys, the key is the spot and haing an area for them to land in that you can hit, soft calling or none when they are looking at the spread and gettin on em when they have their buns to you, anyways this seems to work. In very bad weather i have used only 4 decoys and that seems to be better than the dozen at least in the LA rice farm and NC beach marsh. | ||
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