Decoy spreads

[Brett Neffendorf]

How many decoys do you guys use normally? How many do you own? I own well over 100 decoys now that I just bought my life size GHG decoys!

Thanks

Good luck hunting.

[Brett Beinke]

It all depends on where I am hunting. Small water=smaller spreads. Big water=larger spreads. I have had better luck in MN with smaller spreads early and larger spreads later on in the season, wich is the exact opposite of what they like in the southern part of the U.S.

[Ben Duff]

Brett N.
I think it depends on how many ducks your huntin'. Flight ducks need something they can see, but the pets who live on the dock in the closest lake are a little scared sometimes of lots of decoys. Also like Brett B said, big water lots, small water few. Thats probably the main factor, but there are a lot of little factors. Personally, I like to get away with as few of decoys as I can, because rarely am I hunting an area where there are tons of ducks using my spot.

[JEDJR]

I am leasing a goosefield this year. The only time it sees water is if we get alot of rain. When this happens, I throw out about 1 dozen decoys. Thats all it seems to take for now.

[Sun Drop]

I hunt anywhere from 6 to 150

[Brett Neffendorf]

I hunted a goose field today with large waters in the low spots of it due to rain. I put half a dozen floaters in 1 body of water, left the other body of water open, and then used 32 carrylite fullbodies, 24 outlaw silos, and 24 bigfoots. With my 2 FA blinds we managed to get a few geese. The geese havent been using the field at all and were flying way over high and we worked to get them down. So for the geese not using the field lately I think it was a succesful day.

[jolle]

From 3 to 120 or so, depends on the water.

Small creeks to large reservoirs/marshes.

[smiley1544]

I hunt from a half dozen to ten dozen.

[potshot]

rice field in northeast la. We usually have 250 to 300 out at the beginning of the season.

[Darron]

Field hunting for geese we use anywhere from 3 dozen to 9 dozen. Water hunting small creeks we'll use as few as 3 decoys. Big water around here is inland lakes, I don't leave home without atleast 2 dozen decoys, sometimes on the big water we use as many as 5-6 dozen. Like one of the other posters said, on these inland lakes in SW Ohio, you usually don't see a crap load of birds, so I try to go as light as possible, less to pick up