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Post by dead-eye on Dec 27, 2012 10:12:47 GMT -5
the other day we saw our first golden eyes of the season and like normal they just flew on by without giving our setup the first thought. and i wondered what does it take to get these birds to light in the spread? one of my goals has been to get one mounted but in 10+ years of waterfowl hunting ive never even had a single one give me a decent shot oppurtunity. i could try to sky bust one but thats not normanly how i roll. what does everyone else do to draw them in? normaly towards the end of the season i will see a couple houndred of them each time out.
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Post by joeyb on Dec 28, 2012 8:02:01 GMT -5
I've shot goldeneyes with my normal mallard set up. Find where they are resting or feeding, and set up where they want to be. Only thing I know.
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Post by dead-eye on Dec 28, 2012 12:57:16 GMT -5
wow apparently all you need to do is talk about them to bag some. we ended up putting three of them in the boat this morning. i put a group of 4 drake spoonbill decoys in a tight group seperate from the rest of the ducks and that is where the goldeneyes wanted to be. all three were shot landing in with the deeks. in fact they didnt circle or anything. i used the spoonbill deeks due to having a similar color pattern.  im going to get the hen and the drake on the right mounted togeather. |
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Post by DUCKMASTER1 on Dec 28, 2012 16:27:35 GMT -5
I will tell you this from hunting diver ducks. They like decoys with white on them. When it gets cold , I used to go on the river and use my rig kit, I used bufflehead decoys, they love all the white on them for some reason. and when we hunt small ponds we use the buffleheads and we usually kill our limit. Sounds like you had some birds that wanted to get in your decoys.
Nice Drakes you have there.
But i do know, the more white you have in your spread, bufflehead, and diver decoys with white, they can see them from far out, remember, they wing in pretty fast, so when they see the white, they head for them.
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Post by duff on Dec 28, 2012 16:55:13 GMT -5
Nice work!
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Post by esshup on Dec 28, 2012 19:09:00 GMT -5
Good shooting!
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Post by joeyb on Dec 28, 2012 19:29:09 GMT -5
Good work!
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Post by jordanffemt on Dec 29, 2012 13:34:27 GMT -5
Nice.
Does anyone know what I need to do to shoot some golden eyes. LOL
Its worth a shot.
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Post by ispfowler on Dec 30, 2012 1:09:13 GMT -5
Nice. Does anyone know what I need to do to shoot some golden eyes. LOL Its worth a shot. LOL, well played. |
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