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decoy net with about nine or ten dozen decoys on it. takes about four or five minutes to put out and two and a half minutes to take up by myself. can put it out quicker when it's blowing a little

Saw quite a few of those rigs when we hunted down east...we made one but it was just a cluster in deep water, so we scrapped it.

It would be awesome, we just couldn't get it to work.

the deepest i've hunted with it is about 13' but most of the time we are in 8' or less.

If looks good in your photos, we tried it in 20' and it was marginal- took on a serious hourglass shape. It was definitely better in shallower water.

Were those pictures taken on the west side?

obxbufflehead wrote:Were those pictures taken on the west side?

they were taken on the west side of something


fucking cyberscout


there's a load of ducks where you were the day you saw me with my float blind. all the way up in there, not out where i was

DeadEye_Dan wrote:If looks good in your photos, we tried it in 20' and it was marginal- took on a serious hourglass shape. It was definitely better in shallower water.

you can see a little hour glass shape in the first pic. that's in about 8' and the tide was running hard across the wind. in deep water there's just no way to get the anchors tight enough. we hang sash weights about 5' down each anchor line in deeper water and it helps some but i don't think it would make any difference in that deep

Bufflehead wrote:

obxbufflehead wrote:Were those pictures taken on the west side?

they were taken on the west side of something


fucking cyberscout


there's a load of ducks where you were the day you saw me with my float blind. all the way up in there, not out where i was

I knew I would catch hell for that


I'm sure there are. To bad I'm not 15. I would take my sister next weekend but my boats in the shop.

We tried 6 anchors (corners and sides) and finally just realized that we weren't going to get a better rig than our long lines for our situation.

What's the size and kind of the net you used? Looks good.


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NuffDaddy wrote:What's the size and kind of the net you used? Looks good.


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Knowing where bufflehead and I are both from, its probably one of these 3.
1. An old shrimp net that he cut.
2. An old gillnet.
3. A net that he tied just for this.

netting is 1-3/4" strecthed mesh - #15 twine nylon netting . 200 meshes deep. #9 nylon crab pot line for the border. hung in place with #18 tarred twine.


200 mesh deep hangs a net about 13', length depends on how much you buy. the one in the picture is about 22' or 23'. i've a got couple shorter ones and one that is a little longer.

and it's dipped in latex paint

and you want to use NYLON. you can use poly but it floats, paint doesn't stick to it and it pulls back together bad (causing it to want to get the hour glass shape way worse).

Cool thanks.


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Bufflehead wrote:and it's dipped in latex paint

Looks like a clusterfuck of mass proportions at o' dark thirty on the water. "Hour glass shape" turn the birds that bad?

That's what I was thinking. Seems like people would hear me swearing for about 6 miles across the water when I was trying to put that out.

Flightstopper wrote:

Bufflehead wrote:and it's dipped in latex paint

Looks like a clusterfuck of mass proportions at o' dark thirty on the water. "Hour glass shape" turn the birds that bad?

the problem with the hour glass shape is the net will only be spread out a couple feet wide in the middle and all the decoys will be bumping.


as fas being a clusterfuck, the singles i spread around it are a bigger pain in the ass and definitely more time consuming.

You don't run any lines?

Eric Haynes wrote:You don't run any lines?

i've got longlines too but i don't usualy use them. only in deep water or if i want a bigger spread, think i used them twice this year. for divers i have around 250-275 on nets, 40 or 50 singles and about 10 dozen on longlines.

Bufflehead wrote:

Flightstopper wrote:

Bufflehead wrote:and it's dipped in latex paint

Looks like a clusterfuck of mass proportions at o' dark thirty on the water. "Hour glass shape" turn the birds that bad?

the problem with the hour glass shape is the net will only be spread out a couple feet wide in the middle and all the decoys will be bumping.


as fas being a clusterfuck, the singles i spread around it are a bigger pain in the ass and definitely more time consuming.

Ill take your word for it since I have zero experience and would be talking out my ass if I said any different. Still looks like just the rig Jehler has been looking for to finally take Jgun down.

I really like the looks of those G&H bills. Clyde bought some this year and they look good on the water. Only thing I don't like about them is the swivel head, they always end up with their heads turned on their back.
As for the nets, they look good but, our tides run from 6-10' so it would be tough to set them tight for the whole tide cycle.

Maybe you could just anchor the running side, and let the trailing side float?

assateague wrote:Maybe you could just anchor the running side, and let the trailing side float?

tried that with two parallel long lines before because I was short an anchor....doesn't work too well

Trick too is to use danforth anchors on the upwind corners so you can pull it tight to get it stretched out.

I saw some blueheads today.

3legged_lab wrote:I saw some blueheads today.

I saw some red heads while fishing.

Bufflehead wrote:netting is 1-3/4" strecthed mesh - #15 twine nylon netting . 200 meshes deep. #9 nylon crab pot line for the border. hung in place with #18 tarred twine.


200 mesh deep hangs a net about 13', length depends on how much you buy. the one in the picture is about 22' or 23'. i've a got couple shorter ones and one that is a little longer.

I like the way that looks. What's the advantage in using something like that? I have a diver spot that I think this would be perfect for...

huntfishnv wrote:

Bufflehead wrote:netting is 1-3/4" strecthed mesh - #15 twine nylon netting . 200 meshes deep. #9 nylon crab pot line for the border. hung in place with #18 tarred twine.


200 mesh deep hangs a net about 13', length depends on how much you buy. the one in the picture is about 22' or 23'. i've a got couple shorter ones and one that is a little longer.

I like the way that looks. What's the advantage in using something like that? I have a diver spot that I think this would be perfect for...

The advantage is being able to put an assload of decoys out real quick, and it looks like a knot of birds. Pretty effective too.

There was a local guy here that tried this last year and it ended up to be such a cluster fuck he abondoned the idea after a few attempts. He had to wait for the birds to clear the net after being shot because the dog was panicking when trying to cross or access the net.
Also, like I had suspected, the current and tide made for a lot of adjusting through out the hunts he attempted.
He's not a rookie and he put in a ton of prep time, so he didn't want to give up. In the end, he said throwing 2 longlines, or even 4 lines was easier and, they don't require constant adjusting through out the tide cycles.