Jerk rigs for decoys

[CBrown]

I got the method below off of Delta's website, it just seems that the range of motion might be a little limited. Wondering if any of you guys had any other rigs that yall use.



A jerk string is a great addition to any decoy rig. I have built one myself (I am eternally cheap!) and here is how I built mine. Take a piece of dowel stick, small piece of pipe or whatever you can scrape together to use as your anchor post. From the post tie 12” of heavy decoy line (I prefer Tangle free or other plastic line for jerk strings) and tie off to a 6-12” old bungee cord. On the opposite end of the bungee run the same heavy line to activate the decoys and simply wrap the heavy cord around the keel of several decoys in your spread and then run the excess to the blind. On your blind end tie a simple loop that you can grab on to and start jerkin! I store this contraption on an extension cord holder which keeps it nice and neat. I hope this helps and I would almost bet you can build it from stuff you having laying around in the garage.

[Denduke]

I run a long cord ( with wind up board) through the top of small mushroom anchor, tie decoy on both sides of it. I uses washers to make stops but not necessary. You can pull from boat (b/c you ain't packin no anchor) and even make the end decoy tip like he's feeding and even hold him down and wiggle his butt. Can do similar deal with string of decoys (especially divers) just put anchor at the end and jerk. For this make a long line with huge deep sea fishin snap swivels tied in spaces. Clip your dekes and just leave their normal anchors wound up on their keels. To make all this lighter you can make a grapple hook instead of heavy mushroom anchor. To prevent chaffing make sure anchor eye is smooth or add a ring. Modification, distance, etc. for real deep water. Mount a $10 bilge pump to the keel of a Flambeau, cut a 6v battery and switch in his back, add a little hose (can even make it spray upward), rig a cord, weight, and let the dude swim circles in your spread. Wire a drake to the back of hen have courtship circle. Been teal huntin 4 times $3 battery ain't dead yet. Some hunters allergic to lectricity, understand....

[blackdux]

I use a bicycle innertube cut in strips instead of bungee cord, it is easier to pull

[Wingman]

I poke a limb or beaver stick through a Big Scoop ancor with bungee already on the weight. Then I just tie to that deke, and wrap around several more and run it to wherever I'm hunting. Same principle; less equipment.

Wingman

[mallardchaser]

Catfish yoyo works good. Give them a "swimming" look..

[mallardhunter]

I use surgical tubing (thin, about the diameter of a #2 wood pencil). Plenty of action, easy to pull. You can double the action if you set up two anchors in a "Y" configuration. Put the anchors at the top of the "Y" and join 'em with a carabiner (or knot, etc.). Then pull at the base of the "Y".

[Bustin' Ducks]

Got a pice of rebar...welded a cross bar to the lower 1/3rd of it..and old piece off a tractor so the bungee hooks into then tug away....Surgical tubing works well...or an old rubber bungee cord....not a new one but one that has been stretched out a bit....works well for me anyway..

[polar]

Where can you get the surgical tubing, is it really expensive.
Polar

[quack fiend]

ask a doc or nurse buddy to "acquire " you a few feet, just use a foot at a time and replace when it dry rots

[mallardhunter]

Surgical supply stores will sell it to you. I use about 3-4 feet at a time. I've found it to last years without breaking.

[polar]

Do you attach the surgical cord to the anchor end or inbetween somewhere.
Polar

[Meeka]

I am like wingman. It is the same principle as the Delta rig, but fewer parts; use a stab that is handy. If you hunt where he does, there are always stabs. This is wade hunting. Boats I don't know about.

The only other hint is that if you use ace decoy weights or scoop weights with elastic, you can attach the weight to a stab and the only "parts" required for your setup is a string and a handy way to roll it. I use what contractors get from a place like Lowes or home depot. It is light and compact and I carry my whole jerk string rig in a pocket.

I will add a twist this year, though. Through shoulder surgery rehab, I have discovered the different colored bands physical therapists use. Very elastic and easy to tie. In my mind, they are much better than surgical tubing.

[mallardhunter]

Do you attach the surgical cord to the anchor end or inbetween somewhere.
Polar

Just because it's easier, I attach cord (usually parachute cord) to the anchor end (or tie a length of cord around a tree or stump), then attach the surgical tubing to the cord, attach more cord to the free end of the tubing, run the cord to my first decoy, then second, and so on, finally ending the cord run at the blind (or the tree I'm standing beside).
If you end it in a big loop, you can use your foot to pull the cord, leaving both hands free (almost a necessity in timber, if you call with one hand and hold your gun with the other).

You can tie a simple loop in the tubing, making tying on easier in the dark. You can use saltwater snaps to make the whole job even faster. The whole rig fits in a pocket.

[WillieT]

always attach the end to my huntin' partners false teeth.... he never shuts up... so the dekes are always movin'...

just sayin..........

[Delta Duck]

I'll never forget the first time I went hunting with my daddy in law. We were hunt and old bar pit off the river. Had to take a boat to the small island with good small tree cover. You could shoot 360 degrees. Well the sun starts to come up, I'm about 5 yards away from him and this limb starts slapping me in the back of the head and all 3 dozen dekes start moving around. Well the sun gets aliitle brighter and I look around and he's got line running to limbs everywhere. Well let me tell you when all those dekes start swimming around it would pull migrating birds down out of the sphere! It had to be the motion, because he is the only person that I know of that is a worst caller than me. Them was some good ole day's. It's a bitch when someone loves to hunt so much and age and poor health want let them go anymore. I hope I will be able to catch him on that one morning or afternoon that he feels well enough to go hunting!