Changing conditions means that one decoy strategy may not be the best option day in and day out. Modifying decoy spreads based on weather conditions mimics lifelike waterfowl behavior and may improve your odds. These five expert tips will allow you to know when, and how, to give your decoys a new look.
No Wind, No Worries
Few conditions stir feelings of uncertainty in the heart of a waterfowl hunter like a day without wind, but South Dakota hunter Ben Fujan has an answer for this dreaded dilemma.
“It seems that both ducks and geese don’t decoy as well on those days with little or no wind, but it’s also a case where there’s little predictability about how they are going to finish,” says Fujan. “So if there is no wind I’m going to move the entire decoy spread out in front of the blinds, leaving just enough to cover the backs of the blinds and break up the outline of hunters on the ground. By having the spread out in front I know that if the birds finish from behind, left or right, there’ll be a shot.”
The strategy is especially true, Fujan says, if a hunter is using a spinning-wing decoy to decoy ducks in a dry field.
“I’ll keep the spinners probably twenty yards off the blinds, otherwise you’ve got ducks crashing in from all angles and you can’t keep track of when the flock is in good shooting range,” he explains. “The big thing is just keeping the action out in front of you so that no matter how the birds hit the decoys, you’ve got time to make the right decision on when to take the shot.”
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