Corkies are great-- The late George Soule, decoy maker for Mr. Leon Leonwood Bean, was one of the best "back in the day"-- Now-we have great moulded dekes with weighted keels- if you hunt big water, you need a lot of decoys in your rig-- but how you place them is just as important as how many you have.
For mallards, I like to have more Hens in my spreads than Drakes- why? Because the hens do all the chattering, so if I am working birds with a call (I like the older Olt calls) I want more "ladies chattin' at the Church social"-- so to speak. But if the incoming mallards are "workin'-- I lay off the calling. RWTF
