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All the spots I've been scouting have been loaded with woodies. Last year I bought a dozen mallard decoys but I don't have any Woodie ones. Are they necessary? Would they help? Do woodies even decoy or am I just hoping for a passing shot?

Woodies like mojos. That's about the only thing I've had them decoy to. Otherwise they just go where they want.
With that said, I have 5 species in my puddler spread. Mallard, teal, wood duck, black duck, and pintail. I try too keep my spread 50% mallard and the rest made up of whatever else I feel like.

NuffDaddy wrote:Woodies like mojos. That's about the only thing I've had them decoy to. Otherwise they just go where they want.
With that said, I have 5 species in my puddler spread. Mallard, teal, wood duck, black duck, and pintail. I try too keep my spread 50% mallard and the rest made up of whatever else I feel like.

Woodie mojo or any?

rozzo842 wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:Woodies like mojos. That's about the only thing I've had them decoy to. Otherwise they just go where they want.
With that said, I have 5 species in my puddler spread. Mallard, teal, wood duck, black duck, and pintail. I try too keep my spread 50% mallard and the rest made up of whatever else I feel like.

Woodie mojo or any?

They buzz my mallard mojo just fine. Don't expect them to "decoy" though. Unless your where they want to me. Like within feet of where they want to be.

During our early teal they would drop into my teal rig almost every morning in one area. I put out a mojo dove one morning at a completely different place and the woodies kept splashing in during the first hour of light.

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Never owned a wood duck decoy and have decoyed a lot of woodies over the years. Might be we'd have done better with species specific decoys, but have apparently done a whole lot better than folks who don't get them to decoy (or toll to a call). Sometimes hunted where they'd been using, but also enjoyed good luck on river backwaters and stream junctions while targeting mallards. Now that I'm hunting big marsh, we see a lot more pass than toll, but some still hook and pile in.

NuffDaddy wrote:Woodies like mojos. That's about the only thing I've had them decoy to. Otherwise they just go where they want.
With that said, I have 5 species in my puddler spread. Mallard, teal, wood duck, black duck, and pintail. I try too keep my spread 50% mallard and the rest made up of whatever else I feel like.

I've had the exact opposite results with a mojo and wood ducks. Seems like every time I try it the woodies don't like it. Different area different results I guess.

Go to the northeast in the fall when the colors change. Cut some branches with leafs of different colors and take them to where you hunt and stick them in the mud. Wood ducks will flock to them.


Note: this only works on opening weekend

Thanks for the tips. I might just pick up a couple of Woodie deeks to put in with my mallards.
Ron, do you think this would work the week after opening weekend? I won't be around for the weekend but will have access to allot of branches.

rozzo842 wrote:Thanks for the tips. I might just pick up a couple of Woodie deeks to put in with my mallards.
Ron, do you think this would work the week after opening weekend? I won't be around for the weekend but will have access to allot of branches.

:lol:

The thing about wood ducks in a swamp is they like to be up in the cattails/reeds. In my experience, if you put your Woodie deeks up in there where you want the birds to go, and your other decoys out in the water for attention, they go right to them. Don't have them there, and the Woodies kinda go where ever.

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I bought some woody decoys years ago. Four-pack.
Noticed that wood ducks will decoy just prior to LST. Sometimes later.