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Has anyone used confidence decoys in their spread? Ive heard and seen of them but have never used them. I have heard of blue herons, egrets, and even cows. Do they make any difference?

Use geese alot off to the side for both confidence and opportunity decoys. Use an egret every time I hunt with one of my buddies but I couldn't tell you if it makes a difference or not to be honest I can't tell the difference.

we always use coot decoys and maybe some geese out to the side of our spread.

I put out geese to the side because the wonder bread geese where I hunt land right in them every time! They must be confident when they land!

i dont know about confidence decoys but when we hunted shallow coves or swamps we always put out like a dozen of those plastic ears of corn floating and we absolutely mauled them. if you really want realism take a sheet of construction paper and cut it into a bunch of little kernal size peices and scatter them around the ears then put a couple feeders and some regular deeks around it. all you gotta do next is make sure you got enough shells. it was amazing to see something so off the wall work so well, prob did this on about 5 hunts and had limit all except one day. hope this helps

Are you serious? You were baiting them, but legally. Its GENIUS! haha

I use coot deeks all the time in North Bama. They DO make a difference.

Have Heron deeks as well as corn decoys that I use occasionally.
Don't know if they make any significant difference, but they give ME confidence...

When ducks are as sparce as they have been the past few seasons, you want to feel like you are doing all that you can do.

But the best decoy is to be where the ducks want to be.

God Bless you

i use 10 seagull dekes when i hunt on the lake

one of my buddies did that too, took 4 crow decoys and sprayed them white then put them on their blind. worked nicely

depends on where and what your hunting. i hunt alot of divers so coots, coots, and more coots are the ticket as far as confidence decoys go.

I hunt the Tombigbee. I have used coots and ringnecks and geese for confidence decoys. I have a friend who hunts near me who kept talking sh*t on how he uses blue heron decoys and egret decoys to kill ducks and how I was stupid and I was wondering if he is blowing hot air out his @$$ or not.

All work sometimes.

I had Heron, Fred. It died a painful death. Another Heron swooped down and killed ole Fred. Stuck his bill all the way through the dang thing and then flew off.

I was shocked.

That is pretty good if you can fool a Heron. Sorry to hear about ole Fred

A couple of seasons ago, I had a big Red-Tail Hawk try to nail a Mojo dove decoy that was up on a post. Was quit a sight to see.

God Bless you

I wear a blaze orange hat.

That way they think I am trying to kill wood goats and will leave them alone.

That is pretty good if you can fool a Heron. Sorry to hear about ole Fred

A couple of seasons ago, I had a big Red-Tail Hawk try to nail a Mojo dove decoy that was up on a post. Was quit a sight to see.

God Bless you
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Yeah, one slow day we were kicked back in the blind and heard a slapping sound, like when you throw a decoy out. We looked up to see a monster Red-Tail Hawk trying to take of with a G&H gadwall decoy. We just laughed and said "well the decoys look good".

I always have a blue heron in my bag. I'll generally use one if the ducks seem a little shy and I've exhausted all other possibilities. If you do use a heron, never use more than one and set it a little ways from your spread.

I think confidence decoys work great. I put an 8 year old girl with a loaf of Sunbeam bread on one side and a 60 year old man hitting golf balls on the other side of my decoys. The only problem is the girl has to pee every 10 minutes and I have to take her 1/2 mile away to go in a "real bathroom" and the old man puts me to sleep with his stories of the "good old days" and his various ailments. Maybe I will leave my confidence decoys at home next time I hunt.
Mark Land

I have found that wading out to either re-position, flip one back over, etc. the dekes.... while leaving your gun in the blind works wonders.

haha never fails does it. I thought I was the only person that happend to. I had a group of 7 cans try to light up in my face while I was holding the mojo pole with the mojo still attached

Yep, that movement in the decoys will pull them in every time.