Need Help with hunting in heavy fog conditions!?

[z71rad88]

Visiability is maybe 20-30 yards but can hear pintail and wigeon all over the place? Is it best to just constantly be calling? Any immediate field staff or pro staff advice would be appreciated.

[zippy19]

Splashing the water, however you can, will help the birds hear "where" birds are along with soft calling. Too much calling will leave you open to bad notes and possibly sounding nervous to birds. My .02

[Scott Curtsinger]

lots of heavy calling in fog will flare birds, especially if you call when you see them, let the dekes do the work.

[Foiles SMH1]

lots of heavy calling in fog will flare birds, especially if you call when you see them, let the dekes do the work.


+1 :D

[feetdown20]

our best hunting is under heavy fog here in MS and Tn. like stated before, use a jerk cord or kick and splash. if you are in the marsh, or timber use a short paddle to splash out the dekes, or stick or something. Stick to the 3 notes, and make them subtle, and switch over to your whistle. Don't be afraid to pass shoot either ( NOT SKYBUST ). I think i saw every possible skybusting son of a gun in north MS Thursday for our opener and man.....what a waste! Good luck to you

[Mallardman9]

Let the decoys do the work??? HUH? Why do you say that if there's only 20yds of visibility. By the time they see your decoys you should be unloading your gun.

[calling4life]

I find it's hard to get birds in when they don't know you're there and your completely silent. So yea letting the decoys do the work sounds a little crazy, but I'm not a staffer.

Live duck calling is what you will want to run, subtle feed chuckles and quacks, then intermittently stepping up with some soft greets, get a little excited, then mellow back down.

Realistic, is the key, hit the drake whistle, a little pinny chirp, this can be killer as well.

Splashing the water a little, whether it's with mallard machines or your foot is good, like stated.

I actually run my call almost constantly, because you don't know whats 100 yards away, so just keeping on the soft chuckles and quacks is great, shouldn't scare any birds that are close, but should allow incoming birds to locate you.

[Eric Roth]

Try some UV paint....I have seen it work...Check out the science behind it. Fog will show you just how well it works. UV is the spectrum of light that passes through fog. Even just hitting the white on a ducks butt and the green on his head can make all the difference in the world. Remember also that fog is easy to see down through and not easy to see horizontally through. This is because you cant tell how high you can actually see because fog normally is accompanied by cloudy skys. Most fog I hunt in is only 10 yds thick from top to bottom. Alot of times the birds can see the decoys better than you think. Soft calling is a must. Calling at wing beats isnt always the best thing. Read the flocks and see how they react to your call. Short ceilings dont mean bad visibility for ducks, may just mean you cant see them as well.

[Kelly Rees]

Splashing and subtle, quiet constant calling works for us.

[timberkiller]

well if i got 12 people in my blind it works to shoot the way were the quacks are coming from

[Turninbirds]

well if i got 12 people in my blind it works to shoot the way were the quacks are coming from


Shooting into the fog at the sounds of ducks? Where do you hunt again?

[timberkiller]

arkansas and tennessee

[Take'em7]

Good to know so I can stay away from you.

[Scott Curtsinger]

i have guided hunters from ND to TX and from what i have seen, if you are where the ducks want to be and it is foggy there is no reason to overcall. have watched countless flights of geese and cranes come to the decoys without making a sound in heavy fog. some may disagree but being where the birds want to be is more important than calling.