Fowl Foolers

Fresh faces in fakes for this season

In America, where ingenuity and resourcefulness are prized, men throughout the land have used their wits-and whatever hasn't been nailed down-to kill ducks. In this pursuit, the hungry have learned to tailor their approaches to the behavior of the birds, and from this has sprung one of waterfowling's universal truisms: There's no such thing as the perfect decoy. What works for the baymen of New Jersey's Barnegat Bay has little application for the men of Wisconsin's Horicon Marsh and even less for those in Louisiana's bayous.

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