So I rigged up a jerk rig but I am not sure I did it correctly.

The line coming up happens. You can weigh it down with a peice of PVC and a ring bracket near the blind if you want but I don't think it makes a huge difference.

As far as the first decoy going under, you might have made the line tied to it too short. It should be several inches long.

But your biggest mistake was making one when you can get one like this for $15.

My bro built one and spent around $40 on materials.

I come in with this one and just

I would also add that you have too many decoys on it. Even though there are a lot of clips I usually only run 2 decoys on my line. 5 ducks in a perfect row moving in unison does not look natural IMO.

I thought that too even though I used all teal on the cord and placed it parallel to the grass line.

I use three teal. Any more than three decoys and it just doesn't look right.

I agree with most comments, use 2-3 decoys unless you have a REALLY long jerk string and can put two groups of 2-3 decoys with a large space in between them.

I use a marsh anchor (i.e. a stainless steel pole shoved in the ground) and that keeps the line up high enough that the decoy closest to the anchor doesn't try to go under water. Otherwise, figure out some way to have the line coming up high right after the anchor if it bugs you. I don't think it matters to be honest. Ducks go underwater all the time, and the most important thing is the ripples on the water.

We welded one chain link to the top of a 5 ft. piece of rebar, put that right in front of the blind to hold the line underwater.

Game Winner is just the Academy generic brand right? I have never seen it anywhere else.

I've bought plenty of that stuff and it seems to hold up well.

if you are going to use a weight just use one decoy and run th line through the weight to the decoy. This makes the decoy bob like a feeder.

Put some duck butts next to it.

If it is too shallow to do that you should be using a stake, they are lighter and easier to pack.

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