Opening Day Spreads

[Bogwalker88]

Will be hunting a small lake in western Minnesota for opening weekend. I plan on keeping my spread on the smaller side so ill probably go with a dozen Dakota mallards and 10 dakota goose floaters. What will your opening day spread look like?

[HNTNBUX]

Even on opening day I have been out done by the larger spread down the lake a bit. I wont bring them all this weekend but I will have about 5-6 dozen ducks with and about a dozen geese. I will adjust as needed mostly because I have not picked the exact place I am going to hunt yet.

[fishersofmen]

3 dozen ducks, 1 dozen geese.

[mooneyes]

2 dozen total, with some woodies and mallards in the mix should help cancel a flight or two

[creepworm]

Half dozen mallards and a mojo. Usually all it takes in SD.

[mooneyes]

heck you could probably leave the floaters at home and just take the mojo, anybody ever tried that?

[Huntin&Fishin]

cant use mojos on opener or first two weeks,

[creepworm]

heck you could probably leave the floaters at home and just take the mojo, anybody ever tried that?

Have a few friends that do that early in the season and are pretty successful. It just makes me feel better to have some decoys there besides the mojo.

[Finlander]

50 duck decoys, 20 Canada goose decys! Goose decoys upwind of the duck decoys, and the duck decoys closer to the weedline and me!

[carpshooterdeluxe]

It all depends on what we find scouting tonight, so we are loading a field spread and a water spread; probably going to hunt a small pothole in a wheat field though; 2 layout blinds, 18 canada fullbodies, a dozen mallard shells, 2 spinners, and a dozen duck floaters. Looks to be both geese and a mix of mallard, pinnies and wigeon using this hole right now so hopefully we can get in there. Probably bring along 4 dozen extra honker dekes just in case there is enough pressure moving birds around throughout the morning. Hard to concentrate on ducks though when we can still shoot 8 canadas per person this weekend.

[bogwalker]

I think you could choose a more original name. Bogwalker

[benbosh]

6 teal, 2 woodies, mallard butts on a jerk string and maybe 2 goose decoys.

Had about 500-600 ducks on 213 acre lake from august through about YWD then it dropped down to about 200-300 early this week to maybe 100 this morning thanks to cold fronts and what not. Friend just texted me and said theres already a bunch of people at the lake. I'm guessing they seen all the ducks a few weeks ago and never scouted recently. I'd love to see their faces when light comes and there arn't hardly any ducks out there