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Do you guys do this? Do ducks segregate themselves? This year we segregated our decoys based on species, wigeon with wigeon, mallards with mallards, divers with divers, and intermingled coots with all. Is this a good idea?

ducks~n~bucks wrote:Do you guys do this? Do ducks segregate themselves? This year we segregated our decoys based on species, wigeon with wigeon, mallards with mallards, divers with divers, and intermingled coots with all. Is this a good idea?

im not saying its right but thats what I do!

maybe Mt will show up later, he's the one you should really be asking.

Bootlipkiller wrote:

ducks~n~bucks wrote:Do you guys do this? Do ducks segregate themselves? This year we segregated our decoys based on species, wigeon with wigeon, mallards with mallards, divers with divers, and intermingled coots with all. Is this a good idea?

im not saying its right but thats what I do!

maybe Mt will show up later, he's the one you should really be asking.

When he overrides Gods lightning striker, I will just be the next blind over

seriously I spend a lot of time looking at ducks in the valley and you don't normally see them mixed up on the water.

Bootlipkiller wrote:seriously I spend a lot of time looking at ducks in the valley and you don't normally see them mixed up on the water.

That is what I have seen, but I don't spend a whole lot of time looking at ducks, because I don't live close enough to them to. I have noticed that pretty much all divers intermix, and that everything hangs out with coots. I've even seen wigeon steal food from coots after the coot came up from diving.

Bootlipkiller wrote:seriously I spend a lot of time looking at ducks in the valley and you don't normally see them mixed up on the water.

Boot...draw and post a diagram of your 400 decoy spread sometime.

Seriously.

I'd like to see what you guys do.

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:seriously I spend a lot of time looking at ducks in the valley and you don't normally see them mixed up on the water.

Boot...draw and post a diagram of your 400 decoy spread sometime.

Seriously.

I'd like to see what you guys do.

FF it completely depends not the field. North and south checks and east and west checks make all the difference in the world.

Bootlipkiller wrote:

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:seriously I spend a lot of time looking at ducks in the valley and you don't normally see them mixed up on the water.

Boot...draw and post a diagram of your 400 decoy spread sometime.

Seriously.

I'd like to see what you guys do.

FF it completely depends not the field. North and south checks and east and west checks make all the difference in the world.

Gaddy has to remind him that you must be adaptable

Bootlipkiller wrote:

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:seriously I spend a lot of time looking at ducks in the valley and you don't normally see them mixed up on the water.

Boot...draw and post a diagram of your 400 decoy spread sometime.

Seriously.

I'd like to see what you guys do.

FF it completely depends not the field. North and south checks and east and west checks make all the difference in the world.

Not your hooks and x's. Just for your species.

Don't you leave the big spread out all year?

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:seriously I spend a lot of time looking at ducks in the valley and you don't normally see them mixed up on the water.

Boot...draw and post a diagram of your 400 decoy spread sometime.

Seriously.

I'd like to see what you guys do.

FF it completely depends not the field. North and south checks and east and west checks make all the difference in the world.

Not your hooks and x's. Just for your species.

Don't you leave the big spread out all year?

Yes I do but I'm going to pretend what I know about setting large spreads is insignificant.

Bootlipkiller wrote:

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:seriously I spend a lot of time looking at ducks in the valley and you don't normally see them mixed up on the water.

Boot...draw and post a diagram of your 400 decoy spread sometime.

Seriously.

I'd like to see what you guys do.

FF it completely depends not the field. North and south checks and east and west checks make all the difference in the world.

Not your hooks and x's. Just for your species.

Don't you leave the big spread out all year?

Yes I do but I'm going to pretend what I know about setting large spreads is insignificant.

Fair enough

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:seriously I spend a lot of time looking at ducks in the valley and you don't normally see them mixed up on the water.

Boot...draw and post a diagram of your 400 decoy spread sometime.

Seriously.

I'd like to see what you guys do.

FF it completely depends not the field. North and south checks and east and west checks make all the difference in the world.

Not your hooks and x's. Just for your species.

Don't you leave the big spread out all year?

I'm just gonna take a wild guess here on his spread. 5 dozen mallard floaters, 1 dozen full body mallards, 3 dozen sprig floaters, 1 dozen full body sprigs, 2 dozen wigeon, 1 dozen teal. Then he has 6-10 full body or shell specks and 6-10 full body or shell snows either on the back side of the spread toward the center of the check, or about 80 yards down the levee from the blind. Am I close?

Son! I know more about decoy placement then you know about what lotion won't make your pee hole burn.

Bootlipkiller wrote:Son! I know more about decoy placement then you know about what lotion won't make your pee hole burn.

Ok, back to serious questions. How would you place 1 1/2 dozen mallards, half dozen widgets, and a dozen coots? Hunting from a point about 20 yards long, and about 5 yards wide?

ducks~n~bucks wrote:Ok, back to serious questions. How would you place 1 1/2 dozen mallards, half dozen widgets, and a dozen coots? Hunting from a point about 20 yards long, and about 5 yards wide?

With that few of decoys it really doesn't matter.

Bootlipkiller wrote:

ducks~n~bucks wrote:Ok, back to serious questions. How would you place 1 1/2 dozen mallards, half dozen widgets, and a dozen coots? Hunting from a point about 20 yards long, and about 5 yards wide?

With that few of decoys it really doesn't matter.

That made me laugh

Bootlipkiller wrote:

ducks~n~bucks wrote:Ok, back to serious questions. How would you place 1 1/2 dozen mallards, half dozen widgets, and a dozen coots? Hunting from a point about 20 yards long, and about 5 yards wide?

With that few of decoys it really doesn't matter.

We hunt with more, but that's all of our puddlers. If we're on the lake we also run 4 dozen cans, 1 dozen bluebills and 1 1/2 dozen honkers.

ducks~n~bucks wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:

ducks~n~bucks wrote:Ok, back to serious questions. How would you place 1 1/2 dozen mallards, half dozen widgets, and a dozen coots? Hunting from a point about 20 yards long, and about 5 yards wide?

With that few of decoys it really doesn't matter.

We hunt with more, but that's all of our puddlers. If we're on the lake we also run 4 dozen cans, 1 dozen bluebills and 1 1/2 dozen hookers.

Hookers and widgets? What are you hunting out there?

ducks~n~bucks wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:

ducks~n~bucks wrote:Ok, back to serious questions. How would you place 1 1/2 dozen mallards, half dozen widgets, and a dozen coots? Hunting from a point about 20 yards long, and about 5 yards wide?

With that few of decoys it really doesn't matter.

We hunt with more, but that's all of our puddlers. If we're on the lake we also run 4 dozen cans, 1 dozen bluebills and 1 1/2 dozen hookers.

Hookers? I'm hunting the wrong place!

Feelin' Fowl wrote:

ducks~n~bucks wrote:

Bootlipkiller wrote:

ducks~n~bucks wrote:Ok, back to serious questions. How would you place 1 1/2 dozen mallards, half dozen widgets, and a dozen coots? Hunting from a point about 20 yards long, and about 5 yards wide?

With that few of decoys it really doesn't matter.

We hunt with more, but that's all of our puddlers. If we're on the lake we also run 4 dozen cans, 1 dozen bluebills and 1 1/2 dozen hookers.

Hookers and widgets? What are you hunting out there?

Shit, I mean honkers. And widgets is what my dads friend calls wigeons, I picked it up from him.

I mix the black ducks, mallards, and mallards. Keep the honkers, divers, teal, and woodies separate from the main group and each other.

I always keep the blacks separate from the buffies.

Yall are a bunch of racist pricks

I keep all separate but I will mix them with coots

I don't get too hunt them much anymore but the divers seem way more racist than puddle ducks. Especially butterballs.

DeadEye_Dan wrote:Yall are a bunch of racist pricks

Made Sammy sit in the back of the buss:


More seriously, I tend to segregate most loosely by species:


and have found poule d'eau (aka: coot) rafts particularly effective:


But I put most of my teal close to big ducks in the belief that their size difference adds to the illusion of life from a distance:


Then, again, it may have been my spread that sucked so bad all the ducks went to Hudson's end of the parish this year...

DeadEye_Dan wrote:Yall are a bunch of racist pricks

If we don't keep them separated,they'll start wanting equal rights! Spoonies wanting to be treated like Canvasbacks and such.

Damba. I do bad work. That last "But I put most of my teal close to big ducks in the belief that their size difference adds to the illusion of life from a distance:" pic shoulda been this one:

Rick wrote:Damba. I do bad work. That last "But I put most of my teal close to big ducks in the belief that their size difference adds to the illusion of life from a distance:" pic shoulda been this one:

Do dakotas start to fade pretty bad after a while or is it just the pic?