Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Waterfowl => Topic started by: wnyma771 on October 03, 2013, 02:29:46 PM
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Ill be hunting the sound for the first time later in the season, december and January. What kinds of puddle ducks will still be around? I assume all the teal will be gone. Will there still be good numbers of widgeon and pintails as well as mallards? Im just curious as to what kinds of decoys i should be bringing.
Thanks in advance
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By late season, there will be more pintails around than anything. You will not need pin dekes for them. There should be plenty of mallards and wigeon around too. I have always seen plenty of teal to boot. I would recommend mallards and maybe some wigeon but probably not necessary, they'll come in to your mallard dekes. :twocents:
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Usually see tons and tons of wigeons and scaup in the bays in january.
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In my opinion i use a mixed bag of dekes with a few floater goose decoys because it changes things up for them compared to most folks dekes set up
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:yeah: Gotta be different if they are shy. Change is good.
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Thanks for the advice fellas! I guess ill just pack all the dekes i got and see what works. Pretty excited to shoot teal, widgeon and pintails in full plumage! Hardly ever see em past mid october where I come from.
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I like a few pintail deeks in the spread because they really show up well at long distances.
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Late season get small...I run 8-12 mallards and a jerk cord :twocents:
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Late season get small...I run 8-12 mallards and a jerk cord :twocents:
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Yup, later in the season, less is more.
Find this is often the case with geese in the fields too. Heck later in the season I will change from a short reed to a flute. They have heard short reeds all the way down from Canada. The flute is pretty mellow and is different.
As hntrspud points out "change is good".
Dare to be different.