Have you ever had geese come up to your range, but walk away and never land?

Have geese gotten to the sides of your quilt but not in your pocket?

In the event that any of these circumstances happened to you, you may have placed your lures close to each other.

3 tips: for the right distance between lures

1) Geese are large birds and need adequate landing space
2) Greater spacing between lures makes your cast look bigger
3) It is not difficult to set the proper distance

Tip 1: Geese need room to land

If you watch king geese land, you will notice that they leave a lot of space between themselves and the goose following them. Geese are big and need a landing area like an airplane. If you think of an airplane as a good example, you’ll notice that bigger planes need bigger runways. This is similar with birds. Small birds can easily land without much space. However, as the birds increase in size, so does the amount of space they will need.

At the moment when the geese approach their decoys, they are constantly looking for a landing place. If your lures are too close to each other, they won’t feel like they have enough room to land, so they will either reach the outside of their spread or not at all. You’ll want to make sure that while they’re checking out your lures from above, they have a comfortable feel for landing.

Tip 2 – Spacing Between Lures Makes The Spreads Look Bigger

Many goose hunters want more decoys to increase their ranges. However, they often place their lures too close to each other, which reduces the purpose of getting more lures. It often seems to be a race between hunters on how quickly they can buy more and more lures. People want to add several dozen lures to their spins because they believe that the more lures they have, the more success they automatically increase. Although adding decoys can be an effective way to attract more geese in your direction, if they are not set up properly, geese will still unintentionally land near you.

Before adding to your spread, try to spread your lures further apart first. This will probably add to your hunting achievement and save you some money as you may find that the lures you have are enough to attract the geese. Lures don’t come cheap, so before you spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars more on your lures, try increasing the distance between them first.

Tip 3: How to set lures at the correct distance

Any time you set up your goose decoys, place them no closer than 6-9 feet apart. To do this, set one up and take 2 or 3 big steps before setting up the next lure. With each big step, you’ll be moving about 3 feet forward, so 2-3 steps will give you a decent separation between your lures.

When you think about it, the simplicity of spreading the lures further apart is laughable. However, it is often something that many goose hunters overlook. They like to think of other reasons why they are not successful, such as the number of lures or their calling. Actually, a quick and common way to get more geese within shooting distance is to simply increase the distance between the decoys.