Here's how four resourceful waterfowl hunters combine mobility and creativity to use layout blinds in a variety of settings. They can also be equipped with waterproof liners to hunt in sheet water in marshes or flooded agricultural fields. They allow hunters to virtually disappear around potholes, ponds, sandbars, beaver sloughs, streams, and many other waterfowl haunts. While perfect for dry fields, layout blinds can be equally effective in other settings. Used in this manner, layout blinds are extremely effective, which explains their popularity among field hunters.īut these blinds are more versatile than many hunters realize. These lightweight portable blinds were developed mainly for goose hunting in fields, allowing hunters to scout for a field where the birds are feeding in the afternoon and then set up there early the next morning. Layout blinds enable hunters to hide in open spaces where ducks and geese feed or loaf. The two crawled in and began their wait for mallards, which weren't long in coming. The boy walked the boat down the shoreline while his dad grassed the layout blinds. He and his son boated to the point, tossed out some decoys, and unloaded a couple of ground blinds. Invariably, some would raft up around the point, which was a mudflat covered with short yellow grass.Ī duck-hunting friend who had observed this behavior decided to try to hunt the point when the next cold front blew in. Whenever a freeze forced the birds out of surrounding ponds and shallow wetlands, they headed for the lake.

It was one of those spots where ducks wanted to bethe point of an island bordering a main river channel on a reservoir.

Floating layout blind