Canada Geese Field Hunting advice

[MuzzyHunter28]

Awesome, thanks for the advice. Whats your average spacing between decoys this late into the season? especially with snow on the ground? I do have flocked greenhead gear sleepers I throw into my spread late season esp. with snow in the feilds.

[Tealer]

Spacing depends on the geese, big geese like more room. I'll stack little gees tight.

[LittleHunter]

 Read the birds in the air they will tell you a lot. If there flying with a steady wing speed and show no intrest to your calling or your decoy spread they allready know where there going and your not going to pull them off course. If your birds are comming at you with a slower wing beat and you see more movement in there head like there looking for a place to land get heavy on the call and then tone it down if you get the flocks attention just like geese getting into a dispute over food or territory. If you have geese that keep circleing your spread but dont commit dont be sceared to change up your spread or take some decoys away or even add more if you have them. The best thing that i found out that works for me is i use a spread that i call a junk yard spread and you can set it many ways. I usealy make a cluster of my decoys at the headend usealy in a football shape anywhere from 15 to 30 yard wide. i usealy use anywhere from 1 1/2 to 3 dozen decoys usealy spaced closer together imitating thats where the food is at. Then ill tale off the ends in the derection the geese are comming from a few family groups spaceing the groups anywhere from 10 yards to 30 yards creating a pocket with a gap on each side and depending on the side the geese are favoring ill move them farther out creating a bigger gap. then ill take 5 to 9 decoys allways useing a odd number and imitate that a group just landed and there walking in to the pocket at a angel and ill set them about 40 yards from the cluster of decoys but make sure that the derection the geese are flying from dont have to fly over the decoys that are walking in to the pocket. Geese like to cut geese off to feed.

[MuzzyHunter28]

And you will use that junk yard spread in late season also?

[hdshot]

Awesome, thanks for the advice. Whats your average spacing between decoys this late into the season? especially with snow on the ground? I do have flocked greenhead gear sleepers I throw into my spread late season esp. with snow in the feilds.

Deeks spread out where I want them to land and tight where I don't.  Never had sleepers but if I did, would set them tight in the spread in the areas I don't want touchdowns.

I don't mind having tight spreads, which again goes against the rules of setting spreads.  But geese are almost always sitting in the fields and parks shoulder to shoulder.  I believe whole spreads all spaced out just looks unnatural and just space out for the landing area since they like to land with the deeks most of the time instead of the outside edge.

[MuzzyHunter28]

Allright thank you! with the 36 decoys we have to hunt over, and 4 or 5 guys hunting in lay down how far should i have the blinds behind a lazy j spread or junk yard???

[LittleHunter]

It all depends on your concealment but later in the year i like to move further away from my spread but all so take in to consiteration that its easier for the bird to pick out where the calling is coming from. By the time i get out to go bust some geese is usually the last month of the season and the areas that i hunt are heavily hunted and really educated by then. So i pull every trick out that i have and try new things i have gone to putting every decoy that i have out from only taking 18 of my best looking decoys and setting them up. Placement in the fields can all so make the flocks shy of committing. I don't setup in the same spot i see the geese the morning before. Ill set up about 100 to 250 yards closer to the direction the geese are coming from if possible or to the nearest rise in the field. I like to make my spread different then everyone else out in the area that im hunting but all so trying to make my spread as realistic as i can. Ill ever rake the ground when theres snow on the ground to expose some dirt and set decoys are it.