re: Do you leave your decoys out all season?

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MSWebfoot

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Do those fold up? They look just like the old feather flex decoys.

We don't pick them up but I wish we did

We try to pick our decoys up every time on our lease. Try cleaning the growth the bottom of those things get after a season of not taking them out... I would also be worried if somebody passes by your decoys and just helps themselves if you don't have a group of trustworthy people around you. Also, and this is debatable I'm sure, but I do not want my decoys out all the time and the birds see them in the same spot every day. To me, it seems we have better hunts on times when we do not leave them out continuously. If I'm hunting a Saturday-Monday, yea I'll leave them out. But if your birds are staying local for a time before moving on, it seems to me they like seeing it different. On the movement of decoys, you should look at wind direction and conditions every time you hunt and see what works for that day. Unless they keep flying in all the time, I will constantly change my pattern and amount depending on the weather & water conditions. Keep you a journal of what the conditions were for the day and what you decoy setup you tried.