BEST Tips for Hiding while Duck and Goose Hunting

BEST Tips for Hiding while Duck and Goose Hunting | What's Important!

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On this video Joel his top tips for staying hidden from waterfowl! This is most hunter's biggest problem. Get Surviving Duck Season MERCH!! survivingduckseason.com/mercha...
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@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

What's your best tip for staying hidden?

@hardcase965 2 жыл бұрын

Motion. The less the better

@swamptosoundadventures8337 2 жыл бұрын

What he said….NEVER move until it’s time to shoot except rolling your eyes to watch the birds

@tylersGBO 2 жыл бұрын

If you’re not the caller, get down and look down. Often I will squat and watch the guy calling. See where his eyes are when he says to shoot you know which direction to go.

@patrickgjorven7832 2 жыл бұрын

Don't move and move slowly with a purpose if you need to.

@RetrieverTrainingAlone 2 жыл бұрын

Stillness and low profile. I use a jet sled which allows me low profile in shallow water. Up here in interior Alaska I get close shooting in a white parka as we have lots of swans. As long as I lay in the jet sled and don't move, the ducks don't flare and I get close shots. My favorite load is 1 1/8 oz of 2s steel. Our season is in Sept so the ducks are less responsive to calling and I don't call, and don't move. Also hide cross-wind to the decoys so the ducks are not working directly at you when they are coming into the wind. I almost always hunt solo which also helps hiding. Shotgun is painted the same color are our mud.

@kross1261 2 жыл бұрын

Great advise. Get/make a Great hide and DON’T move. Seems pretty basic but too many fail to do this. Learned after many years of hunting my goose pit where I’m hunting traffic most the time and with smart late season honkers if you’re hide and setup isn’t perfect you’re usually out of luck. One thing that I’ve found when hunting in layout blinds is to try and put the blinds on the downwind side of a hill if possible. So when the geese or duck come they’re not looking at the silhouette/outline of your blinds so easily.

@TheChancerdog1 2 жыл бұрын

Amen the hide is right under scouting in importance. What I spend late summer doing is finding grass I like to fill in on the boat, a frame and layouts. I really think blending common natural grasses from your area is way more important than any decoy type or call type there is

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@travisthompson6543 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another good one Joel. You touched on not moving. That is HUGE!! I remember my dads buddy getting mad at me and swatting my arm every time I would point and say, "there's one!" I was a bit offended at first but then he introduced me to the clock method. We established a landmark and set it as twelve o'clock. Then when a bird or a flock was spotted it was whispered, "one at 4 o'clock!" Or what ever time it related to the imaginary clock. No more arms waving out of the blind. I have also been toying with taking a drone out and getting a bird eye view of the blind to see how hidden we really are.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

When you can look at your hunting location from the air, it’s a game changer!

@rimrock53 Жыл бұрын

You missed an important one. When the sum is shining, the direction of the sun and shadows can make hiding much harder and color, movement, etc much more critical. Try not to get the sun on your face. The sun can also make your blind stand out if it doesn’t match the surroundings. Watch your shadows. Early on a sunny day, your shadow can magnify any movements.

@swamptosoundadventures8337 2 жыл бұрын

What you’re saying about the wind makes perfect sense but it’s so much more fun to shoot and even just see ducks coming straight at u than crossing 😭😩

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

I know!!! lol

@scottgarbs7761 Жыл бұрын

Hi Joel, One thing about camo outerwear in unblinded settings. If you're hunting by yourself and not really close to other groups wear what you want. When you're hunting in proximity to others it's your responsibility to camo yourself the best you can......whether you think it matters or not. The reason I say this is waterfowl will flare from one hunter just as vigorously as they will flare from multiple hunters. As a member of a hunting group each of us has a duty to our hunting mates as well as nearby groups. I think you will agree that if someone shows up in seasoned, brown-duck carhartts hunting in buckbrush and smartweed scatters and the ducks flare for some unknown reason, the carhartts are likely going to be mentioned in the discussion whether they are a factor or not.

@G31mR Жыл бұрын

I agree: concealment is the most common fault of duck hunters I see in the marsh. If I can see you, the ducks can see you. Here are my best tips: As far as being in the duck's line-of-sight, if you can see the duck, you are in the duck's line of sight. Unlike you and me, ducks can see directly to their side, and even to their rear. You are always in a duck's line-of-sight, unless you are directly behind the bird. I would also advise the waterfowl hunter to cover his/her hands and face. Bare skin stands out, even in the shade, like nothing else....especially if it moves.

@matthewwalters303 2 жыл бұрын

Great information. I really enjoy your content!

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

@chrishill3595 2 жыл бұрын

I know this off topic but do you have any videos or could you make a video that's involves hunting wood ducks? I live in sc and that's mainly what we hunt in the swamps.

@kraigkaatz6858 2 жыл бұрын

Another great video... very good information and reminder of the importance of concealment... God Bless

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You too!

@danpatrick9080 Жыл бұрын

I'll be boat hunting some deep water this season. Do you recommend a camo life jacket for the lab?

@graydoncarruth5044 2 жыл бұрын

I would offer one contrary opinion on scouting vs concealment. If you are hunting a property you know like the back of your hand and know the ducks habits over the years then concealment is number 1,2,3 and 20.

@DaddyDuck365 2 жыл бұрын

Great video brother…….

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Matt 👍

@wafflebird0076 2 жыл бұрын

Hey so I just watched your why soak game meat video and I’m new to duck hunting and I would like to know what to do to the meat right after cutting it from the duck like what to do before throwing it in the freezer

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

get the feathers off it, rinse it off and pat dry with a paper towel and put it in a plastic bag and freeze it.

@bviager 2 жыл бұрын

Any tips for public land where you have to hunt a blind that everyone uses and has beat all the brush away from? PS we can't cut any vegetation legally to re-brush them

@clinte9897 Жыл бұрын

Brushing is kinda like firewood, as soon as you think you have enough, double it 👍

@Laughinghawg Жыл бұрын

Agree 100%, seen too many buddies get lazy when it comes to brushing up blinds

@jeremybreeden77 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Joel! How are the lengths on the pullovers? I ask because I'm 6'4" and with some clothing it will turn into a midriff shirt when I raise my arms. I would have to say limiting movement is the best way to stay hidden. I've seen ducks land in decoys many times when someone was out adjusting them or what not and as long as they get the warning not to move in advance, sometimes they will work like the person is not even there.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

They are sized proportionally. I have some tall buddies who got em last year and love theirs.

@jeremybreeden77 2 жыл бұрын

@@SurvivingDuckSeason Thanks for the info!

@mrr7678 2 жыл бұрын

Amen Hide hide hide It’s the key to the kingdom 👍

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed it is!

@hankdausman8653 6 ай бұрын

Staying still and being hidden are equally important. Birds see movement more than anything else.

@gooseflatwaterfowlers 2 жыл бұрын

I think you’ve got to use natural cover make it look like a ball of brush. When I have permanent blinds I use hog panel on the outside to put FastGrass as a base layer of brush then I fill in with Blackjack Oak limbs and Cedars make it natural then I live them on there and let the vines and weeds run all over it and it naturally brushes itself then cover out shooting ports. I use tank netting over the top to break up silhouettes on the ground. When I hunt dry fields I always get stubble from at least 100 yards away to brush blinds geese get skiddish seeing a big bare spot and to me it don’t look natural. When I start working ducks if I’m in a blind I always squat down and get as low as possible so I’m in the shadows so I can look up and watch them work as I call. It’s something my dad has always done and I guess I inherited doing that. I don’t mud my blind I usually spray it with a drab color spray paint in spots then I put grass kits on it and spot that as well. One thing I think that gets overlooked as the season goes on is to add fresh brush to your blind to keep blind as “brushy” as possible. Camo clothes I think you need to match your surroundings like you wouldn’t wear a marsh/cornfield type pattern in the timber if it was real bright I’d go more drab and dark and vice-versa. The bottom line is to get hidden and still and that makes your probability of success go up in hunting.

@powderhogg01 2 жыл бұрын

my area is in a severe drought, and a lot of the lakes and marshes have pulled way back. how would you go about setting up to hunt birds that are in water thats surrounded by dry lake bed or mud flats that have relatively no cover? ive been thinking a layout blind covered in the mud??

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

I've dealt with that problem a few times. We have dragged tree tops, logs and branches out to the water edge and then hidden in that before... worked well. Layouts with mud on them would probably work too in early to mid season.

@RetrieverTrainingAlone 2 жыл бұрын

Here in interior Alaska where we have lots of swans I layout in the mudflat in a white parka with a few swan decoys...using a jet sled so I can layout in a few inches of water. My lab is usually behind me in his jet sled so he does not suffer from muzzle blast and is hidden back in the shrubs:kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpSxmo2ogreBjZI

@powderhogg01 2 жыл бұрын

@@SurvivingDuckSeason thanks for the tips! as always, love the channel and all the tips you offer up. keep up the awesome content creation, love it

@keithlonglois6274 Жыл бұрын

Damn this is good stuff and I am late to the game. I'm just tossing this out there. Waterfowl have eyes on the the side of their head. If you have duck hunted any length of time I know you have seen this, especially of stale birds. They will circle and circle and eventually will come right over the top of your blind, turn their head to the side, and look right down in on you. I too prefer a little cross on the wind, but it may not be so bad for the birds to come straight it. It is my opinion that their eyesight is limited straight on, and better on the sides. Just take one by the bill and look at this straight on, then rotate him around. Besides that, they can pretty much turn their head anyway they want too. .... Be still #1. Next, rather than coming up "quick and jerky." Come up smooth. Just ease up and shoulder the gun in one smooth movement. Once we got on the birds in the middle of a lake. There was a bare sand hump about six inches out of the water, due to a draw down. It was maybe twenty feet around. Ankle deep grass for acres. No cover. We set the deeks so that the ducks would set up, pass in front of us, but light up twenty yards or so past us. We put life preservers under us for padding, and laid flat on our backs in a pin wheel pattern, heads in the middle nearly touching. That way, we could talk to each other as the bids worked, and had eyes 360. Nobody had to move. We called the shot after most of the birds passed, and shot them in the butt. Now, one guy was on the "off side" of the pin wheel away from the birds. We were all seasoned and mature hunters and it took discipline to stay in your zone. The off guy either got the late birds in or the flares out. Careful not to go over the top of the other two guys. We swapped positions of course. But the off position guy was key to talking the birds in for the other two.

@robertorrison6664 2 жыл бұрын

Cross wind is the best tip Lots of times the ducks never even flair when you stand up

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

True!

@aaronsnatic2446 2 жыл бұрын

Like the old Cajun said, brush the blind and when you done do it again about 3 more times!!!!

@isaacmarlin2000 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve noticed y’all hunt specks and I’m a beginner and there isn’t very many videos on the internet to learn how to blow a speck call I would appreciate it if you could give us a how to

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

You're not the only person who's requested this! lol It's on my list.

@davidharris5265 Жыл бұрын

I hunt just a mile from the cash river!! Small world!

@Billy_Bullish 2 жыл бұрын

Did that story about cache involve John Nannemann? I’d love to mess with the old man about it.

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

LOL no, that was before I met John! Haven't seen John in a while, hope he's doing well.

@jessecampbell7432 2 жыл бұрын

Hey joel. Do y’all offer a military discount for merch? Thanks

@SurvivingDuckSeason 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry no. The purpose of the merch is to give people an opportunity to help support this channel- so we can offset some of the expenses to produce the content. Thank you for your service.

@ray7909 Жыл бұрын

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