Levee Jumper
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Working 1,200 - 1,500 decoys for 60 days is rough. You add 6-8 days of ice and a couple backwaters raising the water by 8 foot and man oh man..... maybe they did us a favor!
Look at "Higdon Outdoors TV -305 Towhead Part 1" on YouTube. Granted they are a private club but if you want to see what 250 dozen looks like they have some good drone footage.i would have never dreamed that many decoys around one blind. I'd like to see drone footage of a spread like that. Thanks for clarifying.
This!Then when the opportunity grabbers finally do get there an hour late the ducks will get up and head to the hop in refuge till 3:30 then come back.
Yeah those guys don't hold back on the decoys. When you set them the right way you can make the ducks finish close.Look at "Higdon Outdoors TV -305 Towhead Part 1" on YouTube. Granted they are a private club but if you want to see what 250 dozen looks like they have some good drone footage.
Needless to say you can get them pretty tight and not be able to kill ducks to the edge of them.
Decoys are like words in a sentence, you can never have too many....Then even if you don't drown or get lost or can't get enough decoys out Ducks won't come because TWRA didn't make it rain enough to put water where you need it or caused it to rain too much so they'd have good cause to not plant the required amount to attract those thousands of ducks that would have come if they just hadn't changed things.
Decoys are like words in a sentence, you can never have too many....
There are almost no draw blinds "on the x" you are running traffic trying to pull in passing ducks going to different places. The more decoys gets there attention. You try to hunt most of these blinds with 3-4 doz decoys you might as well bring some popcorn and binoculars to bird watch.I thought if you were on the X it didn't matter how many decoys you had in your spread?
That's been my position in most of this. It's silly for me to try to get a year long blind. I can't afford to travel up to the western end of the state 5-6 times. One or two short hunts would be fine and not having to be concerned with people jumping it is another plus.
Now if nobody will damage my truck or boat trailer while I'm hunting that would be great.
Late season, we have to remove decoys from the spread so we can keep killing ducks.Decoys are like words in a sentence, you can never have too many....
Late season, we have to remove decoys from the spread so we can keep killing ducks.
What people fail to realize is that most of the ducks killed at the "good public blinds" have never and will never actually use that spot/field the entire year. Killing ducks where they don't necessarily want to be takes a huge amount of effort. Killing ducks where they want to be is about the easiest thing to accomplish in all of hunting.There are almost no draw blinds "on the x" you are running traffic trying to pull in passing ducks going to different places. The more decoys gets there attention. You try to hunt most of these blinds with 3-4 doz decoys you might as well bring some popcorn and binoculars to bird watch.