There were still things to do. We scattered a dozen decoys around the tumps of marsh grass dotting the little opening before us, then pushed the duck boat close to the bank to take advantage of ...

OCEAN CITY — Decoy carver Larry Tawes Jr. has a sure-fire way to test how accurately he’s crafted a wooden duck: He takes it out to his aviary, where he has 44 real ducks. He puts the decoy ...

Today, duck hunters can run a variety of name brand spinners, ripplers, swimmers, and splashing decoys. The result is the ability to build an ultra-realistic decoy spread that can draw ducks from a ...

Duck decoy making and collecting are longtime traditions ... Wanting to be like his father, Rigby says he began drawing ducks at age 5 and later graduated to carving. He employs traditional ...

I draw a lot right on the decoys as I’m carving.” Huener’s daughter, Sarah, put together a website with photos of his decoys and other carvings. Besides ducks, he’s carved fish ...

Decades before the hit reality series "Duck Dynasty" debuted on A&E, waterfowlers flocked to the Ocean County Decoy and Gunning ... fests in the country, drawing crowds of 20,000.

Native Americans first used decoys to draw high-flying birds within arrow ... His functional decoys are large, finely-detailed ducks painted in true-to-life colors. The many hours Sweet spent ...

Owning a spread of the best duck decoys that are perfectly suited to your hunting style certainly helps as well. I’ve spent years field testing and experimenting with different decoy models and setups ...

After receiving a call from a woman claiming to have hundreds of rare, hand-painted, hand-carved duck decoys, Fiel knew they’d be perfect for auction. What he didn’t know at the time was how ...