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Post by esshup on Sept 19, 2011 10:29:26 GMT -5
Has anybody used them for woodies during the early season? Last year we noticed that the woodies didn't want to land near the mallard dekes, but dropped in 30-40 yds away. They also didn't seem to like the Mojo either.
We're mainly hunting wider ditches, not ponds or lakes. We are seeing more birds this year compared to this time last year.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2011 12:41:43 GMT -5
Never known anyone that had much luck decoying woodies.
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Post by featherduster on Sept 19, 2011 13:15:34 GMT -5
They say birds of a feather flock together, however I have never seen that with wood ducks and wood duck decoys,
Since they mainly appear right at first light and again after legal shooting time I don't see the need to waste time or money on wood duck decoys.
My experience has been find where they roost and hunt them,their not like mallards.
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Post by duff on Sept 19, 2011 18:08:27 GMT -5
Or set up 40 yards away from the mallard dekes and spinner...I have hunted over wood duck decoys that were someone else's but never noticed it helping or hurting. Same with a wood duck whistle. Some guys swear the decoys and calls help though so bottom line is if you have some extra scratch you can get a few for not too much go for it.
I tend to not give much confidence in duck decoys period though. Paint some 1/2 gallon milk jugs is more my style for those quackers!
Goose decoys are totally different though!
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Post by dead-eye on Sept 19, 2011 18:36:53 GMT -5
i have noticed on rivers you normaly see woodies swimming in a line of three to six. so i have done the same with my dekes and have had decent luck with it. normaly i use two different strings of them one has four the other has five. i make it look like they are swimming into my spread. almost everytime the birds will land next to one of the strings.
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Post by esshup on Sept 19, 2011 23:27:08 GMT -5
Interesting comments. Both sides of the coin! I'll have to report on how they worked for us. Thanks for the tips on swimming in a line, I'll remember that when setting them out.
We do a lot of scouting and try to set up on the "X" anyway, but like I said, last year the woodies seemed to skirt the mallard decoys.
We'll see!!
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Post by DDragon47 on Sept 20, 2011 8:33:28 GMT -5
I got 3 Wood duck decoys and I put them right in front of the blind with a little calling on most days they will come in.
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Post by firstwd on Sept 20, 2011 17:13:39 GMT -5
We have a small backwater pocket that we set the woodies up in. It is actually right behind the blind (we are on a small peninsula) and they come to the dekes most of the time, even when we get later in the year and have the migrators coming through.
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Post by joeyb on Sept 28, 2011 8:01:39 GMT -5
I have a half dozen that I throw out sometimes. If the spot is big enough I'll put them 30-40 yards away from my main spread. I too noticed they always landed away from the spread. So I made a family group out further away. I've shot woodies landing in the area between my woody dekes and my main spread.
My best woody spot has them on it all the time anyways, and we pretty much only shoot wood ducks on it. No decoys needed, and have actually had worse luck when putting the dekes out. Only other times I've shot woodies it was pure chance.
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