Layout blinds help a lot for playas where cover is sparse. We always used a dozen dekes or less.

I'm a newbie, sorry for the dumb question... why would a lot of the ducks land on the middle if they used a dozen decoys?
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Not enough to pull them in and they have other options....however, I find this to be situational and dependent on the time of year and weather conditions. On a still day you are going flare a lot of birds with 3 dozen dekes sitting out there motionless. Large conservation lakes/playa lakes also seem to always have at least 100 coots that pull birds. Biggest challenge year in and year out for us is no cover. These lakes in our area tend to fluctuate in level and it makes to hard for any type of vegetation that could be used for cover to grow.

We hunt a lot of heavily brushed in layouts and try to hunt crosscwinds so they aren't staring right at us. Back off from the dekes and hide as best you can. When the wind is right and the lake level is good we can have some pretty spectacular hunts.

You can't talk about being situational and dependent on weather and time of year when you have literally never hunted a playa lake in the panhandle. Also, out of the 100's of hunts I made during my stay in Lubbock I bet I saw more than 100 coot on 2 ponds. Please don't try to give advice on something you know absolutely nothing about.

I do agree with setting up for a cross wind and back away from the decoys a bit.

So you don't agree that the size of your spread should be dependent on weather (wind) and time of year?

How do you know where I've hunted? You don't know [censored] about me or where I've hunted.

So please don't make statements about me when you know absolutely nothing about me but what you've read on an Internet forum.

You've been hunting stock tanks in central Texas for 2 years based on your post history here. That's all I need to know. I love using 12 decoys when it's appropriate, like on a 1 acre stock tank or small marsh pothole, not a 10-20 acre playa lake with a mud bank and no way of setting up in the middle of it.

I hunt a 50-60 acre private lake 80% of the time with very little cover but have hunted in many places north and west of abilene as well as the Texoma area. I rarely hunt small stock tanks. I have never hunted ducks in what I would consider central Texas.

And you've hunted playa lakes in the panhandle how many times?