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Post by logankocha on Nov 17, 2013 22:59:38 GMT -6
So living next to the Bay of Green Bay I have access to a pretty good amount of divers, but hunting them is quite foreign to me? I own a dozen blue bill decoys and 6 buffleheads and no boat. So I am a strictly shore hunter. So I wanted a little advice from people who are bigger diver hunters on their tactics for divers. Number of decoys, how to make your spread, do you call to them, etc. Would appreciate the help, thanks!
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Post by teamoutlaw on Nov 19, 2013 11:27:13 GMT -6
calling.. usually no.
shore hunting limits you, but if i was shore hunting i would want as many decoys as I could get to hopefully draw them into closer to the shore.
put your goldeneye decoys off to the side in there own group and mixing the rest doesnt matter. I like to keep my buffies all together as well but thats up to you.
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Post by grizwald on Nov 19, 2013 18:00:32 GMT -6
a couple times this season had single bluebills fly by making short quacks. replyed with same quacks and got it to turn and come into shooting range. the thing about divers is the more out in open water the better from my experiences.
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Post by koonce on Nov 19, 2013 19:42:08 GMT -6
We call the crap out of the divers, if they are flying past and not working I'll try anything, I've found cans and red heads to be the most responsive to it. We quack do cadences and lots of cuts, also we growl on the calls and sometimes I yell via mouth at them. Obviously if there working I'm not trying to blown them outta the hole but if there already flying past and not biting you got nothing to loose. This past weekend we found some of the divers needed to be finished with calls the best one being cuts and single quacks.
Run what you have for deeks, often more deeks with divers the better. With what you have I would run a blob of bills and the others off to the sides in there own species. Buddies and eyes like to sick to there own kind especially eyes, around where I hunt they seem to be the pickiest.
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Post by logankocha on Nov 19, 2013 23:17:55 GMT -6
Thanks guys, helps alot being a greenhorn to these divers and shoot
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Post by teamoutlaw on Nov 20, 2013 15:07:35 GMT -6
we had good luck calling on saturday. more of a growl once they turned we stopped.  |
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Post by vandyvan on Nov 21, 2013 9:49:55 GMT -6
Man, that looks like an awesome hunt.
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Post by teamoutlaw on Nov 25, 2013 11:18:33 GMT -6
I love that layout boat action. everyone should try it. pretty neat
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Post by koonce on Jan 3, 2014 12:09:11 GMT -6
Well Logan, How did things work out for ya in the diver hunting?
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