Strangest duck hunting setup you’ve tried

[SPOONKILR]

Just a couple months ago; levee break, flooded almond orchard. View attachment 381593

That was a popular Cali set up this year! Good stuff!

 

[Ducky CPA]

Strangest one I tried and ended up with a limit of geese was a smaller pond which resident geese were using fairly regularly. I simply used the picnic table under the shelter house, moved it to the edge of the shelter house, and put a table cloth on it hanging down to the ground for the blind and sat behind it.

 

[William Reinicke]

Strangest one I tried and ended up with a limit of geese was a smaller pond which resident geese were using fairly regularly. I simply used the picnic table under the shelter house, moved it to the edge of the shelter house, and put a table cloth on it hanging down to the ground for the blind and sat behind it.

Hell ya! That’s awesome! Was it a bright red and white table cloth as well??

 

[orwfowlr]

I was at work one afternoon when I got a call from my son who was out scouting a couple of farms we had permission on. He had intended on jump shooting a pond where he had spotted some mallards paddling around but soon realized there were too many to burn on one rip. The next morning we chunked out a half dozen decoys on the 30' x 75' pond and took up positions behind some trees. The morning wore on and started snowing but no ducks were in the air. He had to leave at 9 to get to work but I hung in there. Maybe 30 minutes after he left, the 1st bunch of about 25 showed up and came straight in without circling. I eased around the tree when the 1st birds started hitting the water, spotted a black duck, took a poke at it and managed to center a tree branch. My 2nd shot brought it down and the 3rd brought down a greenhead. It wasn't long before another bunch of 25 or so came over and made a couple of passes, mostly mallards but also contained a stud pintail. As they sailed into the pond, I came up shooting. The pintail fell 1st, then a greenhead and as I pulled the trigger the 3 time on a greenhead, I had the impression that another greenhead fell. As it turned out, I killed 3 greenheads and the stud pintail out of that bunch. 6 shots...6 ducks, 4 greenheads, a black duck and a pintail. I'd planned on taking a photo but as I was picking up, I slipped on a snow covered log, fell and knocked myself out. How long I lay there I have no idea, could have been 10 seconds or 10 minutes. When I came to, I didn't have much desire to take a pic.

I get that! Most of my memorable hunts have involved pain & suffering, before they were over.

 

[orwfowlr]

In the 80s I hunted a field with a couple giant pieces of plastic to make it look like water and my old paper decoys. It worked for ducks No geese I only had the old plywood decoys I made for geese so was limited because they weighed so darn much per decoy lol The good ole days of wood silos

Thanks for that story. Never knew my grandfather, but later in life I met a few of his friends. One told of him pouring some dye ? in a circle on thick ice -off a rocky point they hunted. Along with a few decoys & then some dead birds (stood up w/sticks), they had Cans dropping in to this tiny “sheltered bay”. Wish I could have been there.

 

[Ducky CPA]

Hell ya! That’s awesome! Was it a bright red and white table cloth as well??

Hell ya! That’s awesome! Was it a bright red and white table cloth as well??

Absolutely!!

 

[bill cooksey]

Couple of times I hid under an orange tarp like rice farmers often use on levees.

 

[Labsforme]

Nah, we were in NoDak.....we were sitting across from each other in some reeds. Between the 4 of us we had over 175 years of duck hunting experience, so it was doable. I'll tell you this, when I take someone into flooded timber for the first time with a group of people, they stand next to me and I don't shoot until I know they see what the game is.

It's just the nature of different kinds of duck hunting....it is, by no means, one size fits all. That's the beauty of it.

I just don't believe it. You actually shot a duck?

 

[Grif]

I just don't believe it. You actually shot a duck?

No, the guy next to me kept telling me I did and throwing ducks in front of me....like always. Sometimes I don't even pull the trigger.

 

[eugene molloy]

When I lived in Staffordshire I had exclusive rights to the duck shooting on a small stretch of the River Trent. I'd just about given up daytime duck shooting over decoys; didn't do it for me anymore, so given that I had a really useful Springer who could work in the dark I shot the patch at last light (or in the dark when the moon was right).

There was just about zero cover and it was a good mile walk in, so carrying, a hide wasn't on, but thanks to Herr Hitler there was one place you could hunker down in the shadows ...

... a wartime pill box. Standing just in the doorway letting off a 3" 12 was noisy enough, thank fook I never had to fire a Bren gun from right inside.