Snow goose spread?

try the j set up

Try a "teardrop" shape with the narrow part going downwind...
The longer the downwind line.. the better..
They will tend to fly the over the drop looking to set into the advancing feeders going into the wind to get to the feed. This set must be true to the wind direction. If it's 15 degrees off.. the geese will not like it.
I always set a small family bunch of sentinals 40 yards off to one side, all head up.

I'm gonna be trying an "X" pattern this year... I've heard good things about it.. I'll be setting that with 600 windsocks.. the idea of the "X" is to get the geese to look in all differant directions to find a landing hole

Good luck
Jerr

AHHHH the X, you know why guides are talking about them so much? Cause when the wind is differnt every morning they dont have to completey switch the spread around. It's a no brainer.

True about the wind....

I'll still use the teardrop most of the time... I'm not as lazy as some people...lol

In fact, when the first buch don't finish... I'll be out there screwing with the spread...lol

Jerr

PS... heading for the MO river flyway starting next Friday... hope the weather breaks right, I got 10 days to hunt

When using the teardrop, do you set your blinds at the tail end or at the top where the majority of the dekes are....since snow geese always tend to jump in front of the flock thought maybe the geese would want to finish in front where there is plenty of feed???

Brett
You are spot-on about the geese going to the narrow end..
We set a 1/2 back into the dekes and cover the layout blinds with them.
The problem with the teardrop is you gotta move them everytime the wind changes.
I got one place I hunt thats' got a 4 acre pond adjacent to a corn field.
THere, I load the decoys near the shore and string them down into the wind. The birds tend to fly up the line.. a lot like diver ducks.

Jerr

NOW LISTEN THE ONLY THING I CAN SUGGEST IS TO WATCH HOW THE GEESE ARE SETING IN THE FIELD, ALSO WERE THEY ARE SETTING. SET YOUR DECOYS UP IN THAT AREA IN KINDOF THE SAME PATTERN PENDING ON WEATHER CONDITIONS, ALWAYS TRY AND PUT THE THICKEST PART OF THE DECOYS TO THE FRONT OF THE SPREAD WHICH SHOULD ALWAYS BE POINTING TOWARDS THE WIND, NOE KEEP IN MIND A SUCCESSFUL HUNT IS GOING TO DEPEND ON WEATHER AND LOCATION, BUT AS LONG AS YOU HAVE THOSE TWO FACTORS AND THE RIGHT SPREAD YOU WILL BE GUARANTEED GEESE