Ok I know duck season just ended but I'm excited for next year. We hunted a creek this year that has really thick brush along it and a big tree line with lots and lots of ducks. Can be kinda hard to hunt with all the trees and thick brush so we fixed that! Found a spot with no big trees for about 30yds and cleaned out the 6-10' brush that was blocking the water. Left a nice brushy spot to build a blind in. Should be great for next season, we jumped hundreds of ducks out of there today. And the field next to it filled up with geese, every 5 minutes another flock landed, along with 9 swans!
yeah, looks like your getting a head start on things to come. How wide is that waterway? I assume the water is the frozen part in the top part of the picture
Its really a narrow creek that is only 3'-6' wide along the field. But it sits down in there a good ways out of the wind and has crop fields on both sides that the birds feed in. It holds a lot of ducks every year and the fields attract a lot of geese. This year is the first time I have seen swans in there which is really cool to see. Would be fun to have some come into the decoys just to see them land. The creek doesn't normally freeze over so it holds ducks all winter long. This past year we hunted the creek in the first part of the morning for ducks then moved into the field for geese later in the morning and did really well on both. Its nice since the ducks fly a lot earlier then geese so we are able to hunt both and in different setups right in the same location.
Interesting about the swans, I've seen a few too over the years. Two years ago I bought 6 "used/like new" giant magnum snow goose decoys off ebay. I set them up a little off to the side of my main spread of about 30 Canada decoys as "confidence decoys". (I always put out a few duck decoys too in the field to help coax them big bombers in.) While local birds around here don't have much chance of seeing snow geese, they do see those occasional swans around here. I'm still debating if those big snow decoys are helping or not?
We used to use the big decoys too, idea is that the birds can't judge size so the bigger decoys allow for more visability. I think they help making your spread look bigger.
Cool setup. You need to shoot more Canada geese. I hate those birds. I love seeing Mallards around town. The geese are too cocky and have morphed into nonmigrating.
