Mojo or no mojo?

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Postby mudsucker » Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:55 am

Tedl10 wrote:What about the new "wing thing"?
Get 2 dozen of these! :wink:
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Postby scott » Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:02 am

What is a WING THING??
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Postby mudsucker » Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:10 am

scott wrote:What is a WING THING??
It's, "DA BOMB"! One wing pointing to the sky on a viberator motor! it makes it spin and "point" higher! That is why I recommend 24 so as to look like 12 ducks that got stuck in the mud on a death spiral! :shock:
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Postby Lodi Rebel » Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:41 am

I hate them!!! To much trouble!!! Wish they would outlaw 'em!!!

Right now, only seven decoys on a jerk string is far more effective.
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Postby weimhunter » Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:19 am

JERK STRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Postby astorey » Sun Dec 17, 2006 11:48 am

I've got one I'll sell you! Defenitely-more the better.......

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Postby JDgator » Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:07 pm

duckkiller wrote:what about being old school and useing a jerk strin? in my oppinion thats the way to do it but I guess to each is own


I agree, the jerk string rig is hard to beat.

The mojo gives the effect of flapping wings, but the jerk string adds motion to the dekes on the string, and sends ripples thru the rest of the decoys. Plus you have the sounds and sight of splashing water.
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Postby sportsman450 » Sun Dec 17, 2006 2:23 pm

leave the electricity at home -- hopefully the feds will come to their senses and outlaw them soon anyway :twisted: :wink: :twisted:
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Postby Tedl10 » Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:15 pm

Yeah I think I am going to take yall's advise on the mojo's and probably the "wing thing" too. So, swinning decoys are my best bet? I know a place that sells them by the dozen for relatively cheap. Think that'd be a winner?
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Postby rebelduckaholic » Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:21 pm

Jerk strings can usually be made with just stuff you find laying around the house. A good metal stake. You could use an old tarp strap with some string you find laying around. Tie a few decoys on and you have yourself a jerk string. Now if you wanted to be fancy you could spend like a whole 5 or 10 dollars at Wally World and have yourself a nice jerkstring
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Postby gator » Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:21 pm

i'll be the first to admit, i HATE spinners and hope/wish/pray they get banned top to bottom of each and every flyway....

ban em in the canadian and US PPR and you've done SOMETHING........ban em down here w/out banning em north and you've done nothing.

personally, i think they've lost most of their effectiveness only re-living it a day or two out of each season, and seem to be more of a hindrance to those that use them at times (i don't/won't/haven't ever)...

IMHO, all these "swimmers", "shakers", "feeders" and "sprayers" do nothing more than add aggrevation to your hunt.....kick water and pull string and be were ducks wanna be :wink:

i posted this a few weeks ago....maybe you'll get some ideas:

my jerk string "recipe".....

1) electrical ext chord "wrapper"......it looks like an "H" sitting on top of an "H".....orange, so i pant it brown.

1) black trot line rope, as long as you'd like it to be....tie off to the double H chord holder

1) 6' of elastic "twine" found in any crafts section tied off to the trot line w/ a "loop" at the end for connecting to stumps/limbs/ect

then take as many dekes as you'd like (i have 3: hen that will be "chased by a drake and a feeder closer to me or further away).....tie off swivel hooks to the dekes --- makes it easy to hook/unhook from the line.

pull tight.......ducks circling, let loose and the "swimmers" swim and the feeder "bobs".

cost about 10 bux total......takes 5 minutes to setup and take down and is light.


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Postby sportsman450 » Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:39 pm

gator wrote:i'll be the first to admit, i HATE spinners and hope/wish/pray they get banned top to bottom of each and every flyway....

ban em in the canadian and US PPR and you've done SOMETHING........ban em down here w/out banning em north and you've done nothing.
right on the money there :wink:

gator wrote:personally, i think they've lost most of their effectiveness only re-living it a day or two out of each season, and seem to be more of a hindrance to those that use them at times (i don't/won't/haven't ever)...
i think you're prolly right about that down here, but i still think this electric crap leads to wholesale slaughter of the young ducks up north -- particularly in the dakotas :twisted:
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Postby Anatidae » Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:49 pm

We have been after a group of gadwalls for the past three hunts......being careful not to run'em out of that area. Gadwalls won't even land with their own kind, sometimes. We just couldn't get the right formula for gettin' these thing in the decoys. But the biggest problem with these was......motionless decoys will tip'em off every time. If it's a calm day, the more decoys you have out (that aren't moving), it just emphasizes that there is no motion on the water and the ducks know it.

We HAD been using 10 gadwall decoys and a pair of mallards, and there wasn't enough wind to make any of'em move. So, we strung 4 gadwall decoys on a jerk string the other morning and that was ALL the decoys we put-out..........and it was all it took. Pay-back is sweet! :wink:

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Postby mudsucker » Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:49 am

THAT looks like the start to a few pots of gumbo right there! :wink:
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Postby Anatidae » Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:58 am

That's exactly where they are going...... :lol: Goooooood 'gumbo' ducks! A little tasso ham and a couple o' pounds of Andouille, and we're SET!~

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