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Do teal not "work decoys" like other ducks?
Posted on 10/8/14 at 10:18 pm
Posted on 10/8/14 at 10:18 pm
During teal season we had teal come into our dekes but never even once had teal swing by the decoys and have to circle back around. They were either locked in and came straight into the dekes or didn't give a damn about us at all. Is this a teal-only trait or did we just have a weird couple of hunts?
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Posted on 10/8/14 at 10:20 pm to gorillacoco
Pretty much
Posted on 10/8/14 at 10:20 pm to gorillacoco
They will definitely work decoys. They sometimes make big circles and land from a different direction than into the wind.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 10:22 pm to hardhead
I've never seen them decoy
Posted on 10/8/14 at 10:23 pm to gorillacoco
I've seen them work, but 9 times out of 10 they just buzz your arse.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 10:29 pm to gorillacoco
Most Ive seen buzz.....buzz again and either move on or divebomb kamikaze style straight into the decoys.
Its not the graceful greenhead, brakes on, stomach showing though, just a direct hit.
Its funny because we had quite a few decoys out last year on my farm, with about 6 teal decoys in a pile. A few groups of teal came in and picked their decoys out and sat right on top of them.
Its not the graceful greenhead, brakes on, stomach showing though, just a direct hit.
Its funny because we had quite a few decoys out last year on my farm, with about 6 teal decoys in a pile. A few groups of teal came in and picked their decoys out and sat right on top of them.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 10:57 pm to gorillacoco
Summers are the only birds that I've consistently seen to not work decoys, like the frickers just know they aren't real.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 11:47 pm to gorillacoco
They love the vortex from cabelas .....
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:30 am to gorillacoco
teal sometimes work decoys, but it is not like other ducks...the circles are so wide, that it looks like they just went away and decided to come back a couple of times...might be 4 or 5 minutes between passes...
Posted on 10/9/14 at 1:36 am to gorillacoco
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Most Ive seen buzz.....buzz again and either move on or divebomb kamikaze style straight into the decoys.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 2:23 am to gorillacoco
Apparently I've been hunting different teal. Ours almost always decoy just like any other birds
Posted on 10/9/14 at 4:21 am to hardhead
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They will definitely work decoys. They sometimes make big circles and land from a different direction than into the wind.
This and depends on how much pressure is on them. Last year was a great season with me limiting out in the first half hour of hunting. After that, I would just stay to work the birds. Had a blast just doing that. This year, no birds and only made two hunts.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 4:25 am to gorillacoco
Teal decoy like a sumbitch. They don't fly like other ducks, obviously. But all puddlers work differently.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 5:32 am to gorillacoco
They've decoyed everytime I've hunted them. Except this year because I didn't even see a teal duck.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 6:09 am to gorillacoco
My experience has been that Teal do whatever they want. I've seen them be shy and skittish, I've seen them decoy like other birds and I've had them come land in flocks when we were standing up in the blind.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 6:18 am to KingRanch
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I didn't even see a teal duck.
Ain't that the truth.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 7:36 am to brass2mouth
In my experience there is no rhyme or reason behind what they do and they are all different.
I do believe that they love a mojo. I hunt over 3 mojos and have seen teal lock in on them from a long ways off and come straight to them.
I do believe that they love a mojo. I hunt over 3 mojos and have seen teal lock in on them from a long ways off and come straight to them.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 8:05 am to gorillacoco
Only time I've seen teal "work decoys" is in big groups, and even then if you get 3 circles back, its a lot. Small groups are a one pass and turn back at most. Two or 3 birds or gonna dive in and land or just keep going.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 10:08 am to bbvdd
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I do believe that they love a mojo. I hunt over 3 mojos and have seen teal lock in on them from a long ways off and come straight to them.
We had a lone retarded blue-wing come in straight to a mojo and knock himself out on the pole. Didnt even have to shoot, just walked out and rung his neck.
Obviously, Im joking.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 10:30 am to KingRanch
quote:Musky Fish.
teal duck
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