In the final days of duck season, don’t be afraid to change the look of your decoy spreads. Be it a simple alteration or a bold move, a different presentation can be all it takes to provide a strong ...

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and flaps its wings like a duck, common wisdom would dictate that it is, in fact, a duck. Wrong! Sometimes it's a roboduck. Roboducks are the latest in decoy ...

There's something almost ethereal about the humble duck, says Eliot, Maine, resident Jim Higgins — its beauty, its wanderlust, its calls, its many hues. From the time he was a young man, he has been ...

When you’re hunting ducks, being able to catch them by surprise is half the battle. Ducks feel safer when gathered in a group, so you can give them a false sense of security by using duck decoys.

BURLINGTON — The novice decoy carvers listened intently Wednesday to the instructions being given at the Burlington Community Center. The Washington Brant Foundation’s Kurt Benson was telling them how ...

Some people collect stamps, baseball cards or books. Dr. Greg Renner collects duck decoys. The Columbia man’s collection focuses on decoys produced by the Hays, Gundelfinger and Benz companies in ...

EDINA, Minn. -- Doug Lodermeier was bursting with stories about Minnesota duck-decoy carvers. We were in Lodermeier's basement office in early December, thumbing through a computer copy of his new ...

Randy Root is a master of mallards. As a kid, he grew up on the south side of Chicago, but in 1960 his family bought several acres along the east side of the Illinois River not far from Peoria. Root ...