I' m looking for a way to rig decoys in bunches (not lines). I' d like to throw them from the shore with a line attached for easy retrieval.

Any advice?

You are just looking for a tangled mess when you start doing that. May I ask why you would want to do that in the first place?

There' s a pond that I hunt on occassion that is about 8 acres and is within 1/4 -1/2 mile from a large lake. It' s a feeder pond and the action is usually pretty good. Unfortunately, the pond is quite a distance from any road and can only be accessed by foot. It would be nearly impossible to get a boat of any kind in there unless you want to blow it up! LOL

The problem is that the best place to set up is on the damn side and the water is pretty deep. You cannot wade out more than about 3 yards before you' re in 7+ feet of water, which drops off to about twenty feet. I' ve had some real challenges getting the deeks out and was looking for an easier way retrieve them.

I thought I had read somewhere that there was a way to rig them in groups like I described. I guess I was wrong. Not uncommon for me! LOL

There was a tip in this month' s Field and Stream (I think) that talked about setting decoys in bunches. Their idea was to take a cast net or some other netting material and attach the decoys to it with about a foot of decoy cord. This would allow the net to sink out of sight and the decoys could still move with the wind.

The tip claimed you could just roll it up, decoys and all, and carry it wherever you went hunting. Sounds to me that in the dark or a real windy day, it could become a big tangle.

Thanks for the tip, I' ll go get a copy of the magazine today! I' ll post on how it works. I' m going for an early morning hunt tom. and will give it a try.

if you hunt with wind at your back (perpendicular to the shore line), you can run a rope or a trotline parrallel with the bank. tie various lenths of decoy cord to your dekes. attach the other end of the cord to various spots along the trotline. i' d start out with no more than a dozen when doing this. you just have to walk a foot or so into the water and let out the dekes and extend the trotline. the wind will take the dekes however far the cord will let them into the open water. they well spaced as far or as narrow apart as you want them to be.