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This is gonna be my first year hunting mallards in fields this year, i am from minnesota but i will be making a trip to ND to hunt ducks so my question is what kind of spread should i use, i have 2 dozen full body goose decoys along with about 15 of the big grand magnum goose shells and a dozen ghg hot buy shells and a dozen full body mallard decoys, i am just wandering if you guys think with the decoys i have could make a decent spread for ducks or should i buy more field duck decoys, i do a couple dozen mallard floater decoys too if i could work them in there some how, any feedback would be great thanks guys im new on here.

If anything, I would add a mojo or 2 if I were you. Mojos are deadly in fields.

Oh and

Mojo's are for fags, when you think your god good enough keep brushing,don't move, birds will work for what seems forever, it's a real tough job making the call, keep your spread simple make one guy the caller of the shot and nobody moves until its called

Mojo's in fields are so deadly it's almost unfair.


I'd add more geese if anything

I have a blue bill floating mojo if I could make a standfor it do you guys think that would work

If you can get 2-5 feet in the air it would increase visibility and work better, but even if you could get to stand up on the ground it would work. Spinning wings are the shit in fields.

Before spinners absolutely dead flipping on pre-scouting to be ON, NOT JUST NEAR "the X" was critical or you could sit in a perfect field rig calling your brains out and watching thousands of ducks funnel in a couple hundred yards away.

And I'd not sweat more duck decoys, they'll come better to goose decoys that are more visible.

Also, I'm not sure where you are heading in ND or when, but one thing I would strongly suggest (besides being ON the X), is investing in some snow goose decoys. Depending on the time you are heading there, the ducks follow the snows when they are there, and the honkers don't come in full force until later in the season. I know we will be bringing at least 10 dozen socks of some sort when we go.

jehler wrote:Mojo's are for fags,

Fags with big piles of dead birds.

Dry field sets can be as easy or as complicated as you want. If you find the birds and set up right were they were the day before you'll be in business. Concealment is the key. I killed alot of ducks up north in dry fields. I found that ducks respond to a good set of goose decoys just as well or better then a field of full body mallards. It seems to me that they keyed in on them really well because they are so visible. On field duck hunts we would put the layout just on the top of the hole with the bulk of the decoys on our sides and behind us with a hand full trailing down wind on either side. With the mojo's right behind us. It would pull the birds with in yards of the blind. If you are hidden well you can literally have ducks land on the blinds. We did this in Alberta and Saskatchewan pea and Barley fields if that makes any difference. From what you would be doing in North Dakota.

Tomkat wrote:

jehler wrote:Mojo's are for fags,

Fags with big piles of dead birds.

sws002 wrote:Also, I'm not sure where you are heading in ND or when, but one thing I would strongly suggest (besides being ON the X), is investing in some snow goose decoys. Depending on the time you are heading there, the ducks follow the snows when they are there, and the honkers don't come in full force until later in the season. I know we will be bringing at least 10 dozen socks of some sort when we go.

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assateague wrote:

Tomkat wrote:

jehler wrote:Mojo's are for fags,

Fags with big piles of dead birds.

You like that jimmy?

divebomber wrote:This is gonna be my first year hunting mallards in fields this year, i am from minnesota but i will be making a trip to ND to hunt ducks so my question is what kind of spread should i use, i have 2 dozen full body goose decoys along with about 15 of the big grand magnum goose shells and a dozen ghg hot buy shells and a dozen full body mallard decoys, i am just wandering if you guys think with the decoys i have could make a decent spread for ducks or should i buy more field duck decoys, i do a couple dozen mallard floater decoys too if i could work them in there some how, any feedback would be great thanks guys im new on here.

A group of us have been hunting ND fields for almost 20 years now. Here's what we drag out there:
4 doz full bodied goose
15 doz full bodied mallard
75 goose silloutes
75 mallard silloutes

Scouting is most important. WE usually get limits every day we hunt. And done before lunch time.

Tomkat wrote:

jehler wrote:Mojo's are for fags,

Fags with big piles of dead birds.

Without a spinner

Westie25 wrote:Without a spinner

There's much to be said for a friend who will manage the family rice farm for your hunts.

Rick wrote:

Westie25 wrote:Without a spinner

There's much to be said for a friend who will manage the family rice farm for your hunts.

Beat me to it. It's easy to not use a spinner when the ducks pour in for the hundreds of acres of rice.

Sent from my phone.

Boom

At bayou, those who have the most success, don't run spinners. They're garbage.

Rick wrote:

Westie25 wrote:Without a spinner

There's much to be said for a friend who will manage the family rice farm for your hunts.

I love you.

I wouldn't waste my time with a spinner over water/marsh/bayou



But a dry field??? You better set it exactly where you want to take your shots, because that's where the birds will be hovering.

DeadEye_Dan wrote:I wouldn't waste my time with a spinner over water/marsh/bayou

But a dry field??? You better set it exactly where you want to take your shots, because that's where the birds will be hovering.

This. And if you have any newbs with you, make sure they know where the mojos are so they don't fucking shoot them. And anybody who says geese won't finish over them is lying, not saying they don't flare geese, but I've seen plenty of geese feet down, mojos screaming.

Westie25 wrote:

Rick wrote:

Westie25 wrote:Without a spinner

There's much to be said for a friend who will manage the family rice farm for your hunts.

I love you.

You just want to get in my pants.

DeadEye_Dan wrote:I wouldn't waste my time with a spinner over water/marsh/bayou

But a dry field??? You better set it exactly where you want to take your shots, because that's where the birds will be hovering.

There it is for big ducks. But even down here at the end of the spinner and guns gauntlet, a spinner will still draw most teal.

sws002 wrote:And anybody who says geese won't finish over them is lying, not saying they don't flare geese, but I've seen plenty of geese feet down, mojos screaming.

Sounds like Canada.

Olly wrote:

Rick wrote:

Westie25 wrote:Without a spinner

There's much to be said for a friend who will manage the family rice farm for your hunts.

Beat me to it. It's easy to not use a spinner when the ducks pour in for the hundreds of acres of rice.

Sent from my phone.

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Rick wrote:

DeadEye_Dan wrote:I wouldn't waste my time with a spinner over water/marsh/bayou

But a dry field??? You better set it exactly where you want to take your shots, because that's where the birds will be hovering.

There it is for big ducks. But even down here at the end of the spinner and guns gauntlet, a spinner will still draw most teal.

Good point Rick. We don't have an opportunity to specifically target early teal and by later in our season, they're long gone.

DeadEye_Dan wrote:

Rick wrote:

DeadEye_Dan wrote:I wouldn't waste my time with a spinner over water/marsh/bayou

But a dry field??? You better set it exactly where you want to take your shots, because that's where the birds will be hovering.

There it is for big ducks. But even down here at the end of the spinner and guns gauntlet, a spinner will still draw most teal.

Good point Rick. We don't have an opportunity to specifically target early teal and by later in our season, they're long gone.

youth hunt, when your boys are ready that mojo teal is amazing

A MI teal season is being discussed literally, right now.

Looks like reality for Sept '14