Tomkat wrote:I run can deeks with my mallard spread
gila-river wrote:Great, now the cops want to install dishwashers to. Just do your job Red and stop encroaching on our rights to replace appliances. That is not the responsibility of police.:lol:
Olly wrote:I use buffie decoys just to add white. I've found that adding some white decoys always helps.
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Slingshot wrote:I bring diver with me and just check the area out as i hunt if I see divers buzzing around the area , and I feel like taking a few if its a slow morning , and the puddle ducks don't feel like dancing , game on I'll throw a half dozen mags out of cans or buffs , for the bigger whites , I also do this if i'm hunting divers and see some puddle ducks fluttering around. I all ways keep them in a bag off to the side I don't all way throw them out. I've had wigeon get very spokey on me when I've had anything other than wigeon deeks out and the same go with pintails. Remeber guys I'm at the end of the flyway And they have seen every trick in the book and they get smart buy the time they get to me.I don't get green heads here where I'm at and I have never shot one in my life.
RickC wrote:Slingshot wrote:I bring diver with me and just check the area out as i hunt if I see divers buzzing around the area , and I feel like taking a few if its a slow morning , and the puddle ducks don't feel like dancing , game on I'll throw a half dozen mags out of cans or buffs , for the bigger whites , I also do this if i'm hunting divers and see some puddle ducks fluttering around. I all ways keep them in a bag off to the side I don't all way throw them out. I've had wigeon get very spokey on me when I've had anything other than wigeon deeks out and the same go with pintails. Remeber guys I'm at the end of the flyway And they have seen every trick in the book and they get smart buy the time they get to me.I don't get green heads here where I'm at and I have never shot one in my life.
Slingshot, where are you located that you dont get mallards?
Blessings,
Rick
aunt betty wrote:In fields I would not hesitate to throw out some bluebill decoys.
Mixed bags are possible. Plus, ducks are curious.
The black and white on a bluebill is visible much further away than standard mallard decoys.
For many years Cabelas sold a ¨puddler package" that included 12 mallards, 12 bluebills, a feeder butt, a bag, weights, and string.
I always wondered why they put the bluebills in that package but after I painted some of my old hen mallards to look like bluebills and put them out in my spread off to the side in a line...I started attracting more ducks period. Some were divers, like canvasbacks.
I would strongly suggest and hunter who targets puddlers in fields to use some diver decoys. NOT IN TIMBER!
By fields I meant flooded rice, corn, or soybeans.rebelp74 wrote:aunt betty wrote:In fields I would not hesitate to throw out some bluebill decoys.
Mixed bags are possible. Plus, ducks are curious.
The black and white on a bluebill is visible much further away than standard mallard decoys.
For many years Cabelas sold a ¨puddler package" that included 12 mallards, 12 bluebills, a feeder butt, a bag, weights, and string.
I always wondered why they put the bluebills in that package but after I painted some of my old hen mallards to look like bluebills and put them out in my spread off to the side in a line...I started attracting more ducks period. Some were divers, like canvasbacks.
I would strongly suggest and hunter who targets puddlers in fields to use some diver decoys. NOT IN TIMBER!
In fields? They dive in the dirt, when'd they start making full body divers?
aunt betty wrote:By fields I meant flooded rice, corn, or soybeans.rebelp74 wrote:aunt betty wrote:In fields I would not hesitate to throw out some bluebill decoys.
Mixed bags are possible. Plus, ducks are curious.
The black and white on a bluebill is visible much further away than standard mallard decoys.
For many years Cabelas sold a ¨puddler package" that included 12 mallards, 12 bluebills, a feeder butt, a bag, weights, and string.
I always wondered why they put the bluebills in that package but after I painted some of my old hen mallards to look like bluebills and put them out in my spread off to the side in a line...I started attracting more ducks period. Some were divers, like canvasbacks.
I would strongly suggest and hunter who targets puddlers in fields to use some diver decoys. NOT IN TIMBER!
In fields? They dive in the dirt, when'd they start making full body divers?
I have never hunted ducks where there was no water. I know people do it. I just like wading and hunting over water.
Different areas are different and guys target different ducks using different methods. I had success using diver decoys until I gave up big water and flooded fields to strictly hunt greenheads.
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