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It doesn't get much cheaper or simpler than a good ol jerk rig. I would start with that. Those are things have their place. But you can't go wrong with a simple tool that has worked for ages

I built my own pulsators for $35 bucks ... They work incredibly well... I'll throw some pics up later but they are just a couple butts with bilge pumps with curved pvc pipe screwed to the bottom, lamp cord going to a waterproof box with a 12v rechargeable battery and heavy duty flasher unit which acts as the anchor ... Works better than i thought

I also have made the standard bilge pump decoy. Works great!

Be creative. We have a super magnum goose shell mounted to the frame of a R/C Hummer. Just tapping the remote when the birds are working can be very effective. Paid $4 for the Hummer at a yard sale. I once had a R/C boat with a decoy placed over the top of it. Wore it out and looking for another R/C boat that isn't a go fast.

Throbbin Rods wrote:Be creative. We have a super magnum goose shell mounted to the frame of a R/C Hummer. Just tapping the remote when the birds are working can be very effective. Paid $4 for the Hummer at a yard sale. I once had a R/C boat with a decoy placed over the top of it. Wore it out and looking for another R/C boat that isn't a go fast.

Good ideas, very nice thinking

Mojo with jerk-rig working right under or next to it. Quack like mad with CCC throwback...
Sucks em right to the ripples and mojo. Turn it off with remote.

HAMMER TIME!!!

Electric or wind powered decoys are now illegal in Arkansas (again).

aunt betty wrote:Electric or wind powered decoys are now illegal in Arkansas (again).

Not just on Arkansas' public land?

Duck Engr wrote:Just on public land


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I'm good with that. Couple years ago a group of guys had two or three cyclones, half-dozen swimmers, and various other electronic ducks. It was bizarre. I'd like to see things go back to nearly normal myself. Funny but the kids who use the circus of spinners are the ones who complain the most and loudest.

Newest motion setup I have is the battery powered swimming mallard drake that Karen bought me for Christmas. I used it with a weight and anchor line a couple of times, then had a brain storm. I got a couple lengths of 1/2" threaded rod, put molded T handles on the end of each r, hose clamped a fly reel to one end of one rod just under the T Handle, spooled on about 60' of flyline. I jam one rod into the bottom, then pull out line until I like it, make a loop and tighten it on the far rod. Then loop the line around the rod with the reel on it. 2 large snap swivels on the bottom of the duck, One clipped to the duck and one clipped to the line. Duck swims back and forth, to me more life like than around in circles.

Good idea. One of the most effective motion devices I've used was a continuous loop of 400# test mono from the blind and through two eye bolts on stakes about 30' apart with two decoys on droppers between them. Pull on one side of the loop, and they swam to the eye-bolt on that end. Pull the other side, and they swam back the other way. Helped kill enough mottled (our black) ducks to have six banded one year.

I sit in my boat blind with a canoe paddle. By twisting it back and forth I can make a decoy spread come to life. It's work but what about duck hunting isn't? Sometimes I forget all the gimmicks and just go with the paddle.

I've used a pulsator, dippy duck, a swim fin, once I roped a sealed plastic jug to an eylet and would let it bob up then would pull it down. Ripples for miles. They all seem to work pretty well. I have a soft spot for a dippy duck though.