Anybody using the GHG Mallard full bodies on floating logs?

[Rob Heflin]

I've got a hole in a brake where I'd like to use the FB Mallards on floating logs (that is, when we get enough rain to float a log.) I've got some ideas, but I was just wondering if any of you fellas had tried it? Shoot, if you've got a permanent hole, I don't see why you couldn't rig up some permanent stakes in the logs and leave them there all season.

I can just see it.... a half-dozen fatheads sitting up on an old cypress log or a floating willow log in the woods. The sun beams down through the tupelo limbs casting shadows across the button bush and inadvertently hiding the hunters on the "dark side" of the tree trunks. Couple of grey duck dekes beside the mallard floaters.....north wind about 5 and the temp hovering just above freezing....shoot the top duck first.

[Rick Frisch]

Rob,

It must be nice to look forward to a timber hunt. Up here there isn't a mallard that will even think about landing in a group of trees. Some guys were talking about this a while back. They said they were going to use the appropriate drill bit and just drill a hole in the log to put the MotionStick.

Thanks,

[Rick Frisch]

[Travis Mueller]

Rob, post some pictures when you get it done.

[Rob Heflin]

Well, I just now realized there were field stakes in the boxes of dekes I picked up today. I guess all I need to do now is drill some holes.

[moduks]

FOr several years we attached flambeau full bodies to 2x12's and floated them around our pits and blind to look like duck logs. We are switching them to Avery this years. Seem to be pretty effective.

[Scott Moates]

I want to also try that. I don't know if this will be the year to do it if we don't start getting some rain. But, when it does come, I am going to drill some holes in the logs for the FB's.

[Wayne Radcliffe]

We have a lot of blow downs here in Maryland and were going to give it a try. We are also going to try the other bases on the rocks in the Susquehanna river.

[Christian Curtis]

I talked to Jim Ronquest about this a couple of weeks ago. He hunts a brake on Boggy Creek in Arkansas. He plans to fix some of the FB Mallards to logs around his hole. I think it will add to the overall realism of his and anyone else's set up.

[JJ McGuire]

I have used them on logs this season and they work great. I just bring a hand drill along to make the hole, and put in a stake.