I like mixing full body specks with full body pins. Its all about fooling the bird. the levees will only play to your disadvantage if they are really tall, but if they are groomed you can put your decoys as close or as far away.
If hunting a rice field, personally, I like to put specks into family groups 3-4 birds. I'll put all my full bodies on one side of the levee up wind of me and have 3-4 down wind coming straight across the blind. As much as I like decoying birds, Your ideal shot are birds on top of you. Having a spread like I am saying, allows me to get those birds to focus on one flock of birds then focus on another flock of birds. Concealment is huge because of how the birds are working. But it also takes the focus of the birds off the blind and onto the other group once the pass up the first group.
I hope you understand what I am trying to say lol I can try and get a picture drawn up as to what I mean if you don't understand
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