scott_rn said:
I have a decoy question - what factors go into deciding whether or not to use them?
Also, I have seen a lot of mojo motion ducks in Farmington and they don't seem to make a big difference based on what I have seen - anyone have another perspective on that?
Well, there's more pro's out there that can fill you in on this but for me.... if I'm sitting, I have dekes out.... unless I'm hunting off the dike with my daughter. Then, it just doesn't matter.... and jumpshooting, well, that should be self explanatory. When I do use dekes, I try to match what I've seen from the ducks sitting on the water.... usually I form some sort of line, with a pocket... lately, I've picked up another idea that seems to work quite well. But yeah... thats about it for me... I use them anytime I hike out to just sit somewhere. Numbers wise... well, I just use what I've got and occasionally I'll pull some but usually I just go full spread and haven't really noticed a big difference either way.
Now... onto your second statement. My opinion is that they made a huge difference when they first came out, birds have become conditioned to them a little more and now some guys are so dependent on them to have a good hunt that they wouldn't ever hunt without the Mojos. I honestly mean that if they had to hunt without them, they'd be totally lost and would expect to have a crappy hunt because they couldn't put out Mojos, Lucky Ducks, or whatever. :shock: I've not ever owned one....and probably won't being a footsoldier guy. :? Weight is a concern to guys like me too. I've seen days where the birds get sucked right in by them... and other days when we could have had twenty of them out and the birds still wanted to be elsewhere.... they're not a guarantee of birds, regardless of what some guys have convinced themselves of. My hunt on Sunday is ample proof to me of that. We had ducks sitting in a weedpatch on a channel and came out with ten.... no motion except a tiny breeze and a little current.
I would think, and this is just my opinion, that a more consistent "duck getter" would be motion on the water in your dekes courtesy of wind, jerk strings, little shaker dekes, quiver magnets or whatever. I've never had natural duck motion on the water flare birds that I could tell.... but I've seen them bail out on a spread with a couple Lucky's going in it. Sometimes they work, but they don't work often enough that I'm fine hunting without them. Of course, other guys will have their opinion on this. 8)
