“Tag: Decoy”

From the river bottoms to the hardwoods, life-like motion is often the key to making wary toms commit to covering those last few yards. Avian-X is now making the natural appeal and comfort of movement simpler, thanks to an all-new motion system that makes a spread come alive.

Mojo's original decoy was the Mojo Mallard, literally jumpstarting the Mojo Brand. It's popularity was in large part down to the decoy's combination of efficacy and durability.

No two decoy carvers work exactly the same way, as a brief chat with five carvers at a Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Md., clearly demonstrates.

Sure, you might decoy a duck or two with any old spread, but many migrators are too smart for dated tactics.

Contributor Mike Roux gives some tips on how to set decoys in the early season.

When temperatures fall, the water in the air has a nasty habit of forming a crisp layer of frost over anything that will stand still long enough. You know what stands still? Decoys. What doesn’t: real ducks and geese. And darn it if they can’t spot a frosted-over decoy from a mile away, ending your hunt before it really even begins.

Setting a decoy spread for wary waterfowl requires strategic calculations to pull off a successful ruse. The same is true of decoying whitetail bucks. You can plunk a buck decoy anywhere, but to have it work with precision requires forward thinking. Begin with simple biology.

Based around Montana Decoy's original Wiley Tom, the Wiley Tom 3D is an easily portable, full-strut gobbler decoy.