Wood duck help

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getting wood ducks to decoy

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nothing you can do to get them to decoy, they will if they want to otherwise practice your passing shots.

we've always slaughtered them just floating down the river by my house, they are real nervous ducks, hard to decoy, hard to sneak up on, they will sit there and stare at you and as long as you don't move they will stay, but flinch a finger towards the trigger and they are gone in a blink. passing shots will be pretty much all you get in a blind, smart little things and they don't usually sit with other ducks besides woodducks, they mainly only eat acorns so aren't interested by other ducks feeding

Woodies will decoy, but they won't fly into the decoys like "normal" ducks. They will usually land upwind beyond your spread then swim into the decoys. Sometimes they will make a low pass then circle around and land out-of-sight and paddle on in to the fakes.