crosswaters Posted February 13, 2012 Report Share Posted February 13, 2012 Mate rang me on Wednesday last week,did I fancy a trip to the fields on the pigeons. The weather was horrible black ice on the roads and the temperature down to -5 and to top it off drizzle rain that never let up all day. I said yeah lets get going but I took with me a large green 50" fishing brolly and set up the hide in a hedge cover under a large tree,using a good net at a high poll position. My mate set up in the next field with the thinking of bouncing the birds back and forth between us. He had quite a good day with 10 or 12 birds down but me didn't a shot,they were coming in to the decoys but before in range they swerved off at about 80-100yds out. I was cold but dry under the cover in my hide my mate on the other hand was cold, wet and packed in after a couple of hours but had the sport,me on the other hand had no shots off at all. Was I unlucky or was it down to poor camouflage of my hide. Before I packed in I walked away from the hide into the decoys area and looked back towards the hide,it looked good with plenty of background blending due to the hedge and tree,yes I could see the top of the brolly but only just. The only thing I can think was it because of the wet conditions the brolly had a shiny reflection.Should I have slung a net over the brolly.....or shouldn't I have used a brolly at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
activeviii Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 it could have been your decoys. even though there was no sun you will still get reflection from wet plastic shells. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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