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Going to build a portable duck blind. What's been your experience? Got any ideas you wouldn't mind sharing? Any help would be very appreciated.

use some type of mesh that lets you add local cover, if you pick a gray based color it will not blend in with a golden colored marsh.

and put a top on it... ducks can see you trying to hide in an open-top blind.

Actually differing color isn't as bad as the open top is.

MOvement is the other instant killer.

One year we put up some netting in front of us... in some reeds where we stood. Worked fine until later in the morning.

Took 2 hunts until at the time of the morning when it seemed the ducks would start flaring I walked out front... DUH, the sun was up high enough we were silhouetted behind the netting then....

I like the idea of local vegetation options though a LOT and try to use it when we can, but if not, we've got a few pieces of fast grass zip tied to wire fence. Each piece is hinged where the end of the fast grass is and you can put it up quick, run fiberglass rods in the ground hopefully, and then have a piece that flips over the top.
works fine on the river on the bank, on sandbars etc...

Thanks all! Yes natural vegetation will be a priority. Hadn't planned originally to put a flip top on it, but sounds like a definite must.

also, use face paint or a face mesh. I hate the mesh, it tickles my nose, but face-shine saves many ducks from hunters. Good luck!

I have a collapasable blind that I had recamo'd and did quite well with.
But it seemed to be lacking something.
Bought some raffia grass, and sandwiched between duct tape and used zip tie loops to hang on the corners. Just finished it yesterday, and still have to dull up the tape.
It should blend in very well with the grass where I hunt.


The top view.

Here's where I hunt and why I did The add on raffia grass.

I think you over think this. Sometimes I just sit on the bare bank with my legs hanging over the bank and my dog laying next to me, as long as we don't move the ducks decoy just fine.

Hunting the tide flats starting at low tide I sit on a camo bucket 10 yards from the decoys and the ducks decoy, there isn't anything other than mud or sand around me. Other parts of the bay I just stand in front of one of the washed up logs.

One quick hunt on the incoming tide about 10:00 AM and had to let them get close enough for 7/8 oz loads out of the old timer.

Wow, nice set up Splattermatic!

Last time my dad and I made a blind, we made a simple wooden frame and zip-tied bundles of cut bamboo to it to break up the shape.

The bamboo grows on the sides of the road here and when dry looks like dried up corn stalks or reeds..

Worked pretty well...however, I would exactly call it portable.

Camo stick stays in my wader pocket. And 2 head nets stay in the backpack. Same with gloves... white hands give you away too.

Thanks.
A sunny view.

"..I think you over think this. Sometimes I just sit on the bare bank with my legs hanging over the bank and my dog laying next to me, as long as we don't move the ducks decoy just fine..."


On Kodiak Island, I have had goldeneyes that I jumped circle and fly back along the Olds river, near enough to shoot and kill. But IME, most shot-at ducks especially puddlers, will be pretty wary thereafter. But I did enjoy some seaduck hunts in Kodiak where I could shoot from a stationary large boat once in a while and connect on oldsquaw and a few others.

http://www.momarsh.com/shallow-water-solutions/sws-invisichair-blind/
And get one for the dog too
http://www.momarsh.com/shallow-water-solutions/sws-invisilab-universal-dog-hide/
I've tried a lot of homemade stuff that worked OK, but these units really work well

erich: Nice work 4 a late morning hunt. Got to love WA state. Have only been once, but will return.