Whats the best decoy set up

MIx it up, make sure to have a couple spoonies and teal on the side with your mallards and woodies.

Are you hunting potholes or open marsh? Do you have lots of coots? If so, coots are great confidence decoys.

If in calm potholes, use ajerk string hooked to a couple of feeder butts.

Less calling can be better.

Being on the X is most important.
 
I hunt the saltwater marshes of Long Island and I've had great success with a dozen black ducks. A mix of magnums, low heads and sleepers. Almost every bird that flies by will come in for a "look" and quite often they will land. Nothing beats being in the right place at the right time with the right conditions though!!!!! Good luck!
 
Wondering what the best decoy set up was. I was thinking of trying black ducks, mallards, pintails, and wood ducks, any suggestions?
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Since no one has said it - one without a spinner.
 
Alex, get out in the boat early and do some fishing in your spots. Glass alot and see what is around. Check out the species around and buy decoys accordingly. See if you spot large or small groups and rig that way. I mainly hunt salt marsh in the boat and rig only 6-8 birds. Larger at other spots. Match the hatch.
 
Alex;Lets cut to the chase, and just remember, at the begining of the season or so called Early season,use green and blue wing teal ,wood duck and mallard decoys. Midseason use widgeon, gadwalls ,pintails ,ruddy ducks, red head s, and ring necks,blue bills. Late season use black ducks ,canvasbacks,buffleheads, goldeneyes and also if hunting geese snows blues white fronted goose and canada geese.The ducks that filter in to the area you hunt will let you know the type of species to use ,puddlers or divers .If you are hunting beaver ponds streams or impoundments small bodies of water ,stick with puddler ducks. Bays ,lakes ,and salt marshes,Black ducks Mallards diver ducks and brant geese. Good Luck.
 
The best decoy set up thst I've ever seen
. Is 200 stuffers in a field that 10,000 geese have been living in for the past two weeks . It's gauranteed!
 
I once found some gads up a slough that were clustered in a feed. The next time I went there I put what ordinarily would be considered to close of a cluster of dekes at the very spot with a few further away. I had a good shoot which is not that common here in Patterson country.
 
Check out a "net rig" if you're going to hunt divers. I've recently discovered this. Zip tie a ton of diver decoys to a shrimp net really close together. Set it out with an anchor on each corner. You just pile it up in the bottom of your boat. Super easy to set out and pull up. I was skeptical at first but the ducks fly to it like a magnet. It looks like a raft of ducks all diving on a corn pile. A huge clump. The one I've hunted over was 20'x20' with 100 decoys on it. Worked better than my long lines. I think it works because corn piles have become part of the natural habitat in my area. The ducks look for them. I'm going to make one to use next season
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