It’s a blue bird day, not a cloud in the sky. Out in marsh, you can spot somebody using 5 spinning wing decoys. What now?

Our guides have noticed that spinning wing decoys work best in early season, fog, or heavy cloud weather. But on blue bird days in late season, the ducks are wary and the hunters are weary! Big mallards as well as divers shy away from “consistent” wing action provided by such spinning wing decoys.

On blue bird days, we switch to flagging (that thing serious hunters did before electronics). The flags are only used when ducks are coming toward the decoys, regardless of how high. I’ve seen divers tumble drop from 100+ yards for a properly waved flag! If you want to stay with the spinner decoys, make sure you have a remote control to turn them off and on, varying the time they are on preferrably to a minimum.

Planting yourself a few hundred yards from the guy using the constant-on motion wing decoys and using one of the above methods will increase your bag limit.