Plans for the morning hunt

If the morning weather holds up I may have a good hunt. The wind is going to be out of the south at about 12 m.p.h. and my blind set on the southeast side of the lake. That means I should have good shots at decoying ducks. Now for the decoying part well........... many may be having the same problem as me, DUCKS ARE NOT DECOYING! I am no duck guru by any means so I am going to have to rely on old fashioned luck tomorrow. I am going to try a new strategy and see if it might give me a better chance.

The other day I was driving down I-40 and noticed a farm pond with cattle drinking from it. Now I know this isn't very exciting, but I also noticed about a dozen or so ducks puddling around the water about 20 feet from the cows!! I began to ponder in the dark recess of my insane duck hunting portion of my brain, what if I could design a blind that was a big lifesized plastic cow?!!!! I maybe on to something here I think I will call my invention the Trojan Cow 5000.

back to tomorrow, I plan on setting out only 6 to 8 dekes. I don't know if this will be any different than the 3 dozen or so that I normally throw out, but I need to try something different. I am also going to leave the Mojo deke in the blind with me and see if that might help as well. I know the ducks must be used to large spreads and my normal spread is not very large as some. Ill give it a try and see if my luck will change.

I will report after the hunt tomorrow.