Attract more ducks with your decoys.

On this video Joel Strickland shares a SECRET tip used by the old-timers to make their decoy spreads attract more ducks. Using certain species of decoys can be very beneficial- even if that species isn’t common to your area.

Thanks for checking out this video! If you enjoyed it, please give us a like and subscribe to this channel.

Surviving Duck Season is a first of its kind waterfowling web series. Our team is comprised of individuals from across the country who hunt every day of duck season. Our focus is to show you what it takes for us to survive duck season.

We have different types of episodes: During November, December and January we will have weekly updates from the field. Throughout the rest of they year we will offer our feature duck hunting films and hunting tips videos. You will always have great waterfowling content to watch, at any time of the year!

Check out a few favorite videos:

Bootlip Duck Club Official Music Video

She Shot My Buck Official Music Video

Pretty Bad at Huntin' Deer
Duck Hunting
Waterfowl Hunting
How To Duck Hunt
Duck Hunting Tips
#SurvivingDuckSeason
#DuckHunting
#HowToDuckHunt

[SurvivingDuckSeason]

What species of duck decoys do you use?

[richardriggs]

I use 6 oversized black duck decoys in my spread out here in the bay area and Sacramento Valley and there are ZERO Black Ducks out here. The ducks from what I can tell don't care one bit. In fact the specklebellies are attracted to them as well. I think like you say, they stand out from a distance, but even when birds are working, no fear of them. I may try some Avion X Blue wing teal decoys this next year too and I have only seen one of them in over 50 years of hunting. That was at the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge at California Oregon border. Glad I found your channel.

[coltencarlson]

I hunt in central MN, mainly bogs that are no shallower than 4’. I hunt solo most of the season and I use
20-25 honkers
12 Bluebills
12 Buffies
6 Ringnecks
2-4 mallards
2 floater mojo mallards
3 Bluebill swimmers
1 Honker swimmer
1 honker flutterer
I never toss all of the ducks out but I do toss every honker out. Idk why but when ducks see the honkers, they tend to pass up every other spread out there and head straight to me. It’s amazing until the sky blasters start taking shots.

[terryporche]

They show up very good on brown water, but they are very wary ducks also. Coots are always where they have feed. Coots also makes a great gumbo. Especially if a Cajun is cooking the gumbo.

[layne]

I run a dozen teal and a dozen spooner decoys, also run half dozen mallards we hunt fields around cash

[MrHunterguy]

A duck hunter I hunted within January used black tubes instead of black decoys and it still worked great

[pault]

I used 4 to 5 species of decoys in my spreads. I got 15 to 24 Mallards, 3 to 5 American Black duck, 12 Blue-Winged Teal or 12 Green-Winged Teal, 26 Lesser Scaup, and 16 Canada Goose. I hunt in river, salt marches, and coastlines or farmer field. I do used motion duck in my spreads.

[yancypoorman]

Love your videos. Also hunt in AR. Have had great success adding coots. Don't forget the lowly Coot!
Visibility and increased commitment from wary birds. Try 'em

[mikeumphrey-waytogokennels]

I hunt central Missouri, we range from 18 decoys to 15 dozen, using mallard, pintail, gadwall, with a few divers on the outer edges

[leesonwineski]

That’s how I set my spread up. Teal always in the middle. I use Canada geese where you used pintails.

[tylerwildharber]

I hunt in western KY. We usually run a pretty large spread. But I always mix it up. Teal, pintail, mallards, black ducks etc. We use a lot of pintail and black duck decoys for the same reason. Like you I can count on one hand how many black ducks I know of getting killed per year. But the black decoys really add to the spread. All of my older decoys we painted black for that reason.

[michaelcherry]

We hunt in south Arkansas. We use the same combination of decoys but instead of black ducks we have used wood duck or shoveler decoys. We have had good luck with that

[OutdoorOutlawsNC]

From around Raleigh NC. Use mostly woodies with a couple mallards. And a couple geese. That's just what I have tbh lol. Not a lot of big ducks where i hunt unfortunately. Never killed a mallard in 7 years hunting waterfowl.

[migratorygame]

It depends on the migration some times I'll only put out 3 or 4 ducks.
I've got 12 mallards and I'll mix in blue bill, red head, pintail for late season hunting. Early season we use a few mallards and 12 wood ducks with 2 baby mojos and 3 dove mojos if we have room we dont use mojos late season just the ol jerk rig and 2 mojo pulsators unless we're on the river or creek.

[joecarpenter]

In Oregon we don’t have huge flicks but I use about 24 dekes 1/2 are mallards the other half is mostly black and white ducks with a few redheads and widgeon.

[hankandrews]

We use mallards and pintails. Pintails mainly for the white. Never thought about the black duck decoys, though.

[martinchen]

I hunt in western Washington on a local lake. There are quite a few kinds of ducks I see in a season. I use mallards and coots and add widgeon, ringneck and scaup depending on what I am seeing. I always put some bufflehead on the outer edge of the decoys. They are very visible and also we get more of them as the season progresses. I have had a mallard swim in to coot decoys and as I watched, they seemed to be feeding on the same kind of submerged weeds, so two reasons to use coots.

[jasonvelasquez]

IL No. and Central Zone. Mixed up and brands-dakota, hardcore, higdon, avian- mallards, BLK, cans, bluebills and geese.

[rogerdanella]

Great videos I really enjoy your videos it's nice learning great tips from a real professional

[Momire]

We run majority mallards and teal here in mid Mo but this 24-25 season we’re running a lot of flocked black ducks and some divers mixed in since we seem to get a lot of ringnecks