In the final days of duck season, don’t be afraid to change the look of your decoy spreads. Be it a simple alteration or a bold move, a different presentation can be all it takes to provide a strong ...

Calm days can be brutal for duck hunting. Without wind, ducks can approach the “X” from any angle they like. Plus your spread will appear still and lifeless — unless you’re rigged up with the ...

It’s pretty calm and quiet around Russ Dedekind’s West Lawn home, even though he and his brother share it with hundreds of wooden ducks in various stages of becoming decoys. They must be pretty good ...

When you’re hunting ducks, being able to catch them by surprise is half the battle. Ducks feel safer when gathered in a group, so you can give them a false sense of security by using duck decoys.

Waterfowl hunters tend to believe more is more: 3 ½-inch guns, big outboards, trailers full of decoys, large party hunts. If it can be made bigger, most waterfowlers think it’s better. Yet sometimes ...