Drake standing decoy bag

Many guys have recommended that style bag for running long line dive setups. A bunch of guys also use the spring loaded leaf bags from Home Depot. I believe they are sold under both the Ryobi and Husky brand labels. MUCH cheaper than the price offered by Drake.
 
I use the spring loaded leaf bags when using long lined broadbills. They hold a lot of decoys and collapse so they don't take up room.
 
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I have used them for the heads for my goose shells for about 4 years now and they work fantastic. Back during the days of liberal limits on bluebills I used regular trash cans that held about 12-15 magnum decoys with lead and tail anchors. Problem I see with popup bags on divers is to much weight if the bag is flimsy. I used 5 lb sash weights for on each end of the long line and with 12-15 per mags per bag that would be to much for what I am using now, which is a Whiskers lawn and leaf model that I picked up for a few bucks on clearance. Trash cans stacked work well in a big boat if they are all of the same model. They hold a lot of decoys as they would be higher than the gunnels of my 19' Carolina Skiff. I ran about 8-10 barrels along each side of the boat and a few plastic commercial fish totes for smaller long lines up the middle. Great part about the barrels was running down the road I could tie them off bow to stern and I never had a problem.
 
i also have used the leaf bags. I unclip both anchors from the longlines and leave them on the handles. it has worked great for our application, which we used about 120 decoys in 20 ft center console. my dad runs an 18 john boat and he likes the 12 slot decoy bags but where he hunts it's not as deep so storing the line in the bags isn't as much of a mess as it would be where we hunt. If you do use the leaf bag style, make sure you put them in with their heads down and keels up. they will come out with much less tangles we have found.
 
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