Field Hunting....

[hunter]

This was my first year of field hunting and it was awesome. I saw some ducks landing in a field and I got permission to hunt it. But this is the first year in about 8 years of hunting that I have seen it or even heard of it around my area. No one here hunts fields because you dont see ducks in fields.

So...

My question is... If you get fullbody decoys and hunt in a field where ducks are flying over but are not hitting in will they come in or are you just wasting your time??? Or is there anyway to hunt fields when you are not seeing the ducks hitting the fields.


Any info is appreciated

[Tony Vandemore]

When conditions are right, it is definitely possible to run traffic on ducks out in the fields. I don't generally do it until I see birds using the fields. When they start using fields, it seems like all you have to do is get in a field on a decent flight line and have birds over you. The sunshine is a huge help when running traffic for ducks.

[hunter]

Thanks Tony

[Mallard Junkie]

If you are hunting traffic on ducks in a field, my suggestion is to NOT leave the mojo's at home;) .

[Ed Madson]

6 dz fullbody GHG mallards and a couple of lucky ducks =DEAD DUCKS anywhere

[Mallyard]

from what I've heard, when It's super cold and everything is locked up the ducks will respond to fields great, because it's their food source. and also when there's a light snow. Ofcourse when The weathers like that, I'm usually going to try and be on a open spot in the river. With a Doz mallard floaters.
But yes mojo's do work alot better in fields.

/\/\allyard

[Jeremy Kriese]

We do a lot of field hunting ducks in our area. It seems like they like it best when you put out some honker dekes with your duck decoys and mojos are the deadly key to ducks in the fields. a few honker dekes and a couple spinners and you can have flocks in your lap.

[Zekeland]

There is no doubt the spinner will bring the ducks in. BUT, ducks love the Canada's and will not hesitate to drop in from all directions. Make sure they are clean and the white is bright.

I can remember a couple of hunts when the mallards didn't even look at my FB mallards and headed straight to the Canada's.

[youngkid]

I totally agree with what was said about ducks loving goose decoys. With said, several dozen GHG Full Body Mallards doesnt hurt at all. I have even seen it when ducks will come into just goose decoys and a spinner. Mojo's are very deadly in fields.

[hunter]

Cut em....
If you didn't read the first post on here that I wrote.. I said,
"No one here hunts fields because you dont see ducks in fields."

And we usually don't see large flocks of birds here either so I would be running traffic and wouldn't have the opportunity at lots of birds.

I will be using a robo do to the fact that if I wouldn't then I wouldn't kill a bird. You can come down and try if you would like..

[Ryan Vande Griend]

It really depends on how much feed there is around
Every Mallard loves COrn, and if they see you, they will most likely check you out!

[Stubble_Hunter]

hunter,
over here in ohio near lake erie we only I generally only see mallards hitting the fields when it is really cold and all the small water is frozen up, even then they are kinda reluctant to use the fields for whatever reason, however, when it snows they hit the fields with reckless abandon. If you know you're only opportunities are going to be birds you can intersect, I'd definately have some goose decoys, the spinners and a few mallard decoys, either full bodies or water dekes. It has been my experience that when mallards come over eventhough the Canada's are there and the mojo they don't want to commit unless there are a few mallard dekes on the ground, just my observations your might be different.

[hunter]

thanks for all the info