Dove decoys on the power line?

Actually, yes I am serious. I have seen them there, and I have seen several articles lately where people talk about lower power lines being great places to put your decoys. The methods they were using ranged from fishing line, to fiberglass poles. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
John
 
The best time to do it is during a thunderstorm.
You just take the longest metal pole that you can find.
Copper, if you can get it.
Put a little hook on it and hang the decoys that way.
You should do it at night so the doves don't see you.
And you have to act fast because as you know lightning doesn't stick around very long, so you will only have a few seconds of light to get em hung.

PC
 
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I wouldn't do it for a bunch or reasons. It's a serious safety issue. The power co would not approve & next time you go there you may see no tresspassing signs. You may call unwanted attention to yourself from fellow citizens. Even though you don't plan to shoot any poles, wires, or other hardware they don't want you shooting where some pellets could hit the stuff. Now a power line opening with some decoys on branches & shooting away from the lines would be doable.

While predator hunting last winter we parked in an old RR track yard to get to a location. Even though there was almost nothing of any value & just some seldom used tracks they had signs up like you were approaching a nuclear plant. No doubt they developed this policy after to many encounters with theft & vandals.
 
Thanks for the concern, but it is my land and my power lines. The power company would not run lines this far out (circa 1955). Up until five years ago, the power meter was 1 1/4 miles from our farm. When the lines are down, we have to pay to have them fixed. Until a few months ago we had a good fiberglass pole that we used to reset the high pole breakers when lightning would knock them out. This worked great for decoys as well until someone (I won't mention names) ran over it with the bush hog.
John
 
If your Power line rig is to much trouble we have had great luck making our own decoy tree. Take a decent size snag/dead tree limb , one with mutiple branches and setting it in the feild you are hunting. We drove a steel fence post and wire our dove tree to it put out some decoys on the tree and a mojo mallard and very good success.Mojo dove would probably be better but the birds sure did oreintate to the spinning wings.
 
I think I would put a rod on the fiber glass pole and use that to make a “dove tower”. A power line is WAY to dangerous to mess with unless you are a power company lineman.
 
A good friend of mine showed me how to do it and it works great. The power lines that we do it on are only about 20 feet off the ground and there are 3 wires over the top of each other. We use a spinning rod with 4 lb or 6 lb test mono-filament line on the spinning reel. Just tie the line to the decoy and cast it over the top power line. Pull the line so the decoy is setting close to the bottom or middle wire and then cut the fishing line and tie it off to something to hold it in place. Putting three or four dove decoys up like this 20 feet off the ground can make a average dove hunting spot into a great dove hunting spot.
 
Thank you very much. That is sort of what I was thinking. It is very tricky to operate the clips on the bottom of my decoys with the fiberglass pole. Your method sounds very simple.
Thanks,
John
 


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