whats the best feild goose spred?

[Kile Jones]

Hey guys. I usually have 2 simple drawings on sticky notes to show what type of spred to use. i was wondering what spreads to use from your best experiance. I have had good sucsess with the j hook and big U or C. i have 10 full bodies but by next season i hope to have around 32. i also carry out 8 bigfoot/flambeu floaters with the keels hack sawed of to simulate resters and sleepers. What would be the best spread for early mid and late season?:D

[Josh Brugmans]

Just set the decoys up how you saw the birds in the field.

[Kevin Kriha]

Just set the decoys up how you saw the birds in the field.
Have to agree with Josh usually we always start the day out by setting the dekes up pretty much the same way we see the geese in the field or surrounding fields while scouting, this seems to work the best, from there if the geese are flairing or not even looking like they may want to committ we usually get up, close the blinds, and walk out in front of the spread to see if there is anything causing them to not commit completly, look at the blinds, any thing shiny, think about the way ya all called the flocks, and if still nothing, then change a few decoys around to try to figure out what the geese want. But start by setting up the way the geese are seen in the field usually the best bet!
Kevin Kriha

[Joe Fladeland]

I definitely agree with what Josh and Kevin said but I have a few other things that might help. On every single hunt this year I had strings of actives downwind that would simulate a new flock that has just landed and they are making their way to the food source. I would put maybe 6 actives on each side of the whole and face them all upwind and make it seem like they are all making there way towards your blind. I would always put way more feeders around my blind than I did actives and I would have most of the actives making their way to the feeding decoys.On one of our last hunts this worked incredibly well. We landed quite a few birds and every single one landed right upwind of these actives. Naturally they were trying to beat these geese to the food.

Here is an example of the line of decoys I set out to resemble a group walking into the bigger group of feeding birds. All the geese landed right in front of these decoys.
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/3295/goosehunt49largetf7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Hope this helps.

[waterfowladdict]

A "J" hook can work great but that has to be one of the most used spreads in goose hunting. It works some days but some days they wont even give a J a look. Dont be afraid to switch it up, some days a blob is the trick, Sometimes spread them all out. Some days set the shells off in their own group and have a group of feeders. In late season We had goode luck with an oval shape spread with the side facing into the wind so it was more of a sideways oval. But setting them up how they were in the field the night before is great to.

[Kile Jones]

Thanks guys. I just want to try something that everyone isnt like the hooks. They work but in the late season i had geese flare. I had Higdon fullbodies with flock heads and everything.

[CurrituckBoy]

Make it look natural

match numbers, and style the birds are setting or feeding, are they sleeping or activley moving, watch out for birds that are moving through a field quickly, this could indicate not much food


that is the best advice anyone can give you

Michael

[waterfowladdict]

Yah we used a J once this late season and had the same results with the flaring.