Duck, Duck, Fake: Decoys Draw In a Feast for the Eyes. November 1, 2003. By Angus Phillips. Early duck season opened in Maryland last week, ...

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 d… ...

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 ...

Decades before the hit reality series "Duck Dynasty" debuted on A&E, waterfowlers flocked to the Ocean County Decoy and Gunning Show in Tuckerton. The real duck hunters of New Jersey have been ...

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

Decoy carving is unique among folk art because it’s indigenous to this continent and not based on European traditions. Native Americans first used decoys to draw high-flying birds within arrow ...

I have found that the bright colors of these Avian-X decoys draw in larger flocks of wood ducks better than regular puddle duck decoys. These dekes, paired with a simple wood duck call, make it ...

They will all be auctioned off at Randy's Auction Gallery on March 16, and the total value of the 400+ duck decoy collection is more than $600,000. “I’ve been doing this for almost 50 years ...

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 d… ...