Thread: Flocked decoys

Decoy Raft Waterfowl Platform

$279.99
Each Decoy Raft is 145 inches long x 62 inches wide (just over 12 ft. by 5ft.) and allows the Hunter to attach up to three dozen industry standard decoys, depending on the desired configuration. The design of the Decoy Raft allows for multiple Raft attachment for supreme versatility in the field and reduction of anchors. With over 15,000 stitches and 80 connection points, it’s built tough.

Each Decoy Raft Waterfowl Platform includes:

One Decoy Raft Waterfowl Platform

One Decoy Raft Carrying Bag

32 Stainless Steel Clips

https://southernflywayoutfitters.com/shop/decoy-raft-1

@Micky Duck…..please reference said website……we have 3 of them…plenty of photos ,plenty of magic……they work ….its all about makingthe join easier…….using the boat to go to inaccessible spots is where these platforms get the “gold medal” for me

interesting concept indeed....we tried a longline so could clip em on then drag them out..worked ok but too uniform small lines of 4-5 worked ok... but we went back to single sinkers and long nylon as depth varies a LOT.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

interesting concept indeed....we tried a longline so could clip em on then drag them out..worked ok but too uniform small lines of 4-5 worked ok... but we went back to single sinkers and long nylon as depth varies a LOT.

That mate…is why these platforms were designed the way they are…..MAGIC!!!……THEY WORK!!!

ONE ANCHOR…..doesn’t matter how deep it is

But arguing about the decoy placement and spread with your shooting buddy is what it’s all about haha this would take all the fun out of it on the Friday night before, out in the shitty old 8ft fibreglass dinghy that once was a a little sail yacht. Finding decoys in the bags that you suppose to re rig the season before but never got round to it. Bloody good times.

lol…yeah mate…theres that side of the coin too…….

Those decoy rafts look awesomely useful. In one of the scrubby gorsey pine infested ponds full of logs and eels and weed we shoot that would be perfect.
I try not to get caught up in all the hunting flashy marketing jazz, but that is something I mite get this season.

@jamie…. I can vouch that they are practical and work… not in all situations ,but they have a place

a bit of # wire in a long shallow U or W will teather 2 or 3 together with single anchor point...same advantage as the mat...close together but cant bump each other....a bit or shadecloth with some sort of frame would work the same as that mat... snap swivels will clip through weed mat easy enough...options are endless.

Well… it seems the “mat” has given you ideas….. I just presented what we are doing….

Yea the “mat” idea would suit the bush pond we shoot. Got a few months to make up something like it, or save up and buy one. We used to drag in 25mm black alkathene water pipe in big hoops and connect decoys to that and throw in the pond, but getting the hoops in to pond was like an all in brawl thru the scrub, like bulrushes and crap 6ft high. The mat with decoys attached we could fold up and drag and slide thru our tracks. Awesome pond to shoot, mongrel to acces. And the decoys get bashed around taking them in there.

@jamie ….awesome mate…. No.8 wire .. kiwi ingenuity stuff going on here…..

I’ll bet my bottom dollar that @Micky Duck is already in his shed banging up one as we speak!!!

Originally Posted by A330driver

Yeah mate …we have a mixture of xtreme fully flocked,xtreme mallards,quail and geese…….and just your basic painted cheap ones as well …mallards ,Resters,and a few others my oldest boy has chucked in….no idea where he got them ……..12-15 Black ones as well…

My boy reckons ducks respond to the black ones on a low overcast cloudy day..reckons they are extremely visible to the ducks overhead..Ive seen him call ducks flying over the top,to turn ,flfew every year,build up the stocks,good decoys are a must…they work….reckon its about how extreme etc you are into bird hunting,…my oldest boy is a nutter about it…”.has to be done right” he reckons…….me,….Ilike to duck hunt,like the meat,enjoy the whole thing….as my kid says….dad!!its an “active” sport…pulling the trigger and harvesting birds you either get or dont

hang on a minute you have flocked quail decoys for one and for two what you decoy quail

@gsp follower….”.typo”…

No quail decoys….