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Robo duck or no robo duck? One Robo, two robos or more robos? Robo at first light? Robo all day? Robo in the fog and rain or robo in bright sun? Robo by himself or robo with a bunch of decoys? Ducks flare with robo and ducks flare without robo? Paint robo to look like a hen or leave robo a mallard drake? Robo with remote or robo running all the time? Vortex? on a pole or on a floater?
mother of pearl. what is the state of affairs with motion decoys these days?

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mother of pearl. what is the state of affairs with motion decoys these days?

CanadaSlammer69

me and my buddy dont believe in the things and when ever we tell people they seem to think that we are some kinda of morons. ask them how many birds they get down and the numbers are never much different from our own.

Crowkilla

Definitely the eternal debate. We have been using two Mojos, four Wonder Ducks, and a Wake Maker decoy system in our hole. It has been working incredibly well. The Wake Maker works like a jerk string, but the movement is continuous. I think the key to motion decoys, Robos - Mojos - Wonder Ducks - or whatever else, is to have several of them. Reason I say this is because if you look at real ducks in a pond, all are moving, not just one flapping his wings wildly. So the more you have the better. If you are only gong to use one, just don't use any at all. We got around the enormous cost of all this by each guy pitching in his own Mojo or Wonder Duck. Check out this Wake Maker though, it has really been good.

http://www.wakemakerducks.com/

Carpmaster

Multiple mojos with goose dekes is killer in fields for ducks...

Small water a single or double is great also unless birds are extremely pressured.

Game areas(large floodings) and bigger water somedays they work some days they dont...

johnch

Depending on the area we hunt

But we normaly run 2 Mojo's
1- 3'-4' off the water , the other is 8' off the water ( 10' piece of 3/4" TW conduit added to the stand painted OD green )

At first light they are killers
But after a hour or 2
We watch , some days they will cause the ducks to not finish
So we sometimes turn them off

This happens a lot more when a group or 2 of other hunters that can't hit SH!T are using them close by

We always have jerk strings out

Along with 2 remote controlled geese
I took a goose shell , cut 2 layers of 2" blueboard to fit inside
Cut a opening in the Blueboard to take a remote controlled boat

When we get bored or want to make some water move
We will drive the goose around and thru the decoys
Works great and the ducks love it

John

deerhunter518

in california we are only allowed to use the robo duck the last month of the season so i always use a wind duck. I say use as many diverse decoys as u want it differenciates u from other hunters so you will get more birds especially late in th season