Late season waterfowl tactics

[MarshRat89]

Already here's your 10 page topic for the week. So our LA waterfowl biologist Larry Reynolds claims. More ducks are killed per hunter effort In November and December. Why is that?

Personally I think a lot of guys don't make late season adjustments. They hunt the same old blind that they brushed the first day of the season. They hunt over the same decoy spread that they put out the first day. They sit in their blinds and talk about how the birds don't work anymore, but do nothing to change.

So let's hear em what's your late season tips and tricks? Include where you hunt, pond sizes, and whether it's marsh or ag fields.

10 pages or bust!


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[AubreyLaHaye458]

I usually downsize my spread and wi take 1-2 dozen of my best looking decoys and start guerrilla hunting around the farm where the ducks are wanting to go and where there is place for me to hide


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[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by AubreyLaHaye458

I usually downsize my spread and wi take 1-2 dozen of my best looking decoys and start guerrilla hunting around the farm where the ducks are wanting to go and where there is place for me to hide


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I'll do the same the later on we go I start pairing them up and put the pairs fairly far apart. Also pull the mojo and put a couple on a jerk string.


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[AubreyLaHaye458]

Originally Posted by MarshRat89

I'll do the same the later on we go I start pairing them up and put the pairs fairly far apart. Also pull the mojo and put a couple on a jerk string.


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Jerk string is a must. We keep two at the blind year round. And I've kept the mojos packed up since the split.


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[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by AubreyLaHaye458

Jerk string is a must. We keep two at the blind year round. And I've kept the mojos packed up since the split.


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They're deadly early on. Late In the year I find too much motion can hurt you though. Can't work it too much.


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[Chip Landry]

A lot less calling. Mostly use soft quacks, mallard drake "dweebs", widgeon whistles, etc. Forget all the loud hail calling and comebacks..

[Clampy]

Originally Posted by Chip Landry

A lot less calling. Mostly use soft quacks, mallard drake "dweebs", widgeon whistles, etc. Forget all the loud hail calling and comebacks..

No bouncing the hen ?


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[BloodKnot]

Originally Posted by Chip Landry

A lot less calling. Mostly use soft quacks, mallard drake "dweebs", widgeon whistles, etc. Forget all the loud hail calling and comebacks..

Agree with this very much.

Adjust your spread. Change it up a little.

But I think people hunt less. Many people hunt hard during the holidays. Thanksgiving in November and Christmas/New Years in December. Plus add the opening weekend warriors (November and December), there seems to be more hunters.

[Spunt Drag]

Get out of the blind and start diggin holes in the field for the layouts. You have to mud and grass the layouts really good though, because anything suspicious will make em grab some altitude. Especially since they're already suspicious of decoys and calling, really gotta have it tight or just be on the X. Oh, and BOUNCE DA HEN

[cgoods17]

Originally Posted by Spunt Drag

Get out of the blind and start diggin holes in the field for the layouts. You have to mud and grass the layouts really good though, because anything suspicious will make em grab some altitude. Especially since they're already suspicious of decoys and calling, really gotta have it tight or just be on the X. Oh, and BOUNCE DA HEN

and tell your buddy to hide is big head

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by Spunt Drag

Get out of the blind and start diggin holes in the field for the layouts. You have to mud and grass the layouts really good though, because anything suspicious will make em grab some altitude. Especially since they're already suspicious of decoys and calling, really gotta have it tight or just be on the X. Oh, and BOUNCE DA HEN

X2 make em disappear
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[Spunt Drag]

Originally Posted by cgoods17

and tell your buddy to hide is big head

He does when there's birds comin.

[SaltERedneck]

If u aint bouncin da hen you aint tryin!!!!

[southLA]

I hunt primarily from layouts all season. Move to a different spot every day. Birds don't learn it and I can be where they want to be!

[Armand16]

Put the decoys 50 yards from the blind. Ducks on one side, specks on the other.

Whistles and speck calls only, no mojo

[bgizzle]

Hunt over 30 dozen paired up decoys!!!


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[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by Armand16

Put the decoys 50 yards from the blind. Ducks on one side, specks on the other.

Whistles and speck calls only, no mojo

That's how bgizzle likes to goose hunt set em a hundred yards away and shoot em on passes. JJ Gizzle


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