Best design of decoys that roll and skate?

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Lee L.

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Would like to find out what design of decoys roll and skate the most. Pics would be nice. A pattern would be great.
Thanks!
 
So you want your deeks to roll and skate? I usually target wide and stable in my designs
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Me too! My decoys are normally wide with a hard chine. My plan is to paint up a few hens dark and the bottoms of them stark white. I want to try to get some real flash that you see when ducks are diving.
 
round will work--narrow produces too many problems--Go do a search for havre de grace decoy museum, madison mitchell decoys, upper bay decoys--You should see some infor there that may get you on the track to roly poly's--If you want, i can take some shots of some from my collection and send to you--drop a note to:
gwdecoys@verizon.net
 
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Me too! My decoys are normally wide with a hard chine. My plan is to paint up a few hens dark and the bottoms of them stark white. I want to try to get some real flash that you see when ducks are diving.
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Ah, now i get it. Was kinda wondering what you were shooting for.
After watching how the bellies on gadwalls shined bright white in the sun when they tip, I painted the bellies on my all feeder butts white. My gadwall spread is 2 dozen regular G&H and Carrylite's and 1 dzn feeder butts with white bellies. I think it helps.
 
why not go wide and stable but pull up the white a little on the sides, would still get the flash now and again and have a decoy riding high on the water.
 
I have been experimenting with the decoys I make and adding white. Just wanted to try something a bit different from other parts of the country. If I can get the flash I want from a few decoys I think it would help attract birds from a distance. I don't want it to show all of the time like on calm days, just when the waves are high and the decoys rock.
 
Anyone ever try adding a lip of sorts to the bottom-front of the decoy like on a crankbait, and using a heavy "H" type anchor with just enough line to hit bottom? Seems to me every time a wave came by that decoy would tip right up and flash its belly. You'd need enough anchor weight to keep the decoy from drifting, though.
 
Anyone ever try adding a lip of sorts to the bottom-front of the decoy like on a crankbait, and using a heavy "H" type anchor with just enough line to hit bottom? Seems to me every time a wave came by that decoy would tip right up and flash its belly. You'd need enough anchor weight to keep the decoy from drifting, though.
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I actually thought about that but current would probably keep it tipped up all of the time.
 
Have you tried attaching the anchor rope to the center of the keel instead of the front? That might give it some weird action...
 
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