I have dozens upon dozens of mallards, black ducks, pintails, wood ducks ... you can slowly add to your decoy spread over time and fine-tune it to your hunting style. Then, on those slow days ...

But living and hunting in the northern half of the Mississippi Flyway, my favorite waterfowl species is the odd and gorgeous little wood duck. They are fast and challenging targets, when they decide ...

Huener uses basswood for decorative decoys, saying the wood has a fine grain that takes ... “You can’t be duck hunting year-round, so this is something to tinker with during the offseason ...

and for more than 1,000 years they made decoys adorned with feathers, brush, and mud for hunting purposes. Early colonists took note and began carving wood duck decoys from white pine and white ...

When you’re hunting ducks, being able to catch them ... Choice 3: Flambeau Classic Wood Duck Decoy Our take: A solid set of wooden decoys that perform well at an affordable price point.

My father introduced me to duck hunting when I was five or six and ... They are much lighter than my wood decoys and I use them, but in terms of spirit, those new plastic and fiberglass decoys ...

Surely, there has to be an old battered wood duck decoy in there somewhere ... which sponsors this annual green-eyed glorification of arcane hunting and fishing gear, said a few items will ...

I had paddled my duck hunting kayak into a backwater spot by moonlight ... I dropped a teal in the decoys and then a couple wood duck drakes. I worked a pair of mallards down over my decoys and killed ...

It takes away from the experience that hunting traditionally had." Traditional duck decoys are simple things made of wood, cork, foam or, more recently, plastic. They don't do anything but stand ...