easy diver rig

[mixxedbagg]

I have 2 dozen scaup decoys I'm rigging up for next year. Each one has a hole for cord in the front and the rear of the keel. I don't want to get into anything complicated or hardware intense, but I'm wondering if I would be fine to just make a couple of diver lines by stringing them together with 4 or 5 feet of cord between each, some facing each direction, and putting a weight on each end. Sure, they would only face 2 directions, but it seems like they'd be easier to place than if each had it's own weight.

I also wondered about the possibility of doing a long cord with a weight at each end and just using a dozen heavy pike leaders as droppers for each--like a trotline with stoppers--so the dekes had more freedom to move.

I use my boat to retrieve (no dog), so a dog tangling in the lines is not a consideration.

[magnum mike]

I have used rig-lines in the past but I'm not 100% sold. The only time I set those rigs is when we are going for the MONSTER spread on big water late in the year. This is when we set 10+ dozen blocks trying to work the big northern flocks. Other than that, I prefer to hand set each decoy based on the wind and where the boat is. I have seen small rig sets from the water and they look goofy. That apparently is the way the ducks see it too because they don't shoot much.

[Walleye Guy]

If you gang rig them have them all (or at least a very high percentage) facing in the same direction. When you gang rig decoys they are in a line. Ducks don't swim in a line if they are facing opposite directions.