Ducks float, and so do buoys, so they’re a natural candidate for a DIY decoy. Outdoor Life. Cost: $12 or less per decoy. ... Bonus: Use a black garbage bag and white paint for a Canada goose decoy.

More than 300 floating decoys, costing an estimated $6,000 and $7,000 were stolen on the Grasse River in St. Lawrence County.

I've also seen people make spreads of Canada goose decoys from old orange crates. Take the crate apart without breaking the boards. With a jigsaw you cut a half-circle off the top of each end.

Tired of chasing white, windblown garbage bags, two Nebraska waterfowlers put their heads together, thinking there had to be a better way to decoy snow geese into shooting range.

Cayuga County sheriff's deputies have arrested two Montezuma teenagers and accused them of stealing Canada goose decoys from Cayuga Lake earlier this month. Deputies charged James A. Savarese, 18 ...

The geese are in the air and I cannot begin to tell you about the thrill of the Canada goose hunt when these big birds are circling your decoy spread. There is an art to setting up a goose decoy ...

Other than crossing the border into Canada, the biggest pain in the ass for DIY field hunters is towing a trailer of decoys. First you have to drive it there for 20-plus hours, and once you arrive, ...

That same year, the highest value for a duck decoy sold reached $1.13 million apiece in a private sale of an A. Elmer Crowell carved pintail drake and Canada goose. Getting Started Media Platforms ...

I didn’t use any goose calls when I killed my first Canada goose in 1979. No decoys either. Just me, an inexperienced 15-year-old, hiding in my grandfather’s cornfield with my Pop’s ’66 ...

So did the Canada geese on the first day of early Canada goose season. Despite the bluebird skies, geese flew. The first six flew straight into the decoys, and we bagged the four we shot at.

When I was growing up in southeastern Michigan, we hunted diving ducks out in Lake Erie. You needed a lot of decoys 100 or more to pull down rafts of bluebills. Nearly everyone made their own ...

Such as a generic decoy that could be dressed in a mallard glove, Canada goose glove, whatever. It's unknown at this time, however, if, or how, Grandma Lillian will be involved.