On DG's decoy spread thread, the issue of water keel decoys came up. PITA when they end up on their sides. Someone suggested filling the keels with rocks or sand and sealing the ends. I suggested zip tying a lead sinker to the keel. Not much of a tip, trick, or cool idea, but it got me thinking about that kind of thing. Anybody got any tips, etc. about decoys, guns, boats, motors, blind, etc. that make life easier, save time, work better, or are just neat?

The easiest thing to do is quit hunting.

If you hunt with rig em rights or Texas rig style anchors, throw them suckers in a drake big mouth stand up decoy bag...and you'll never fight tangles and never have to wind up another decoy string ever again.

I ended up with a bunch of unweighted decoys. I bought the flat bendable lead weights from academy. Slid them into the open keel and used my soldering iron with the cutting tip to seal the keels about 1/2 way. The lead can't slide out and water still fills the keel.

Instead of buying the stand up bags for decoys from drake etc etc. you can buy the same thing at home depot or any other store like that for a third the price. It's called a yard clean up bag. I got mine from from the place I get my chainsaw parts, baileysonline.com. Made out of the same material.

Instead of buying floating mojos, I have made mojo floaters out of PVC, and wrap them in pipe insulation. They work awesome. Ill post a vid later.

I use fishing weights and a rubber inner tube strips on the weight end of the string. When you wind up the string hook the strip of tube around the keel and it holds the lot there, stops weights banging around too.

Fill goose decoys with space invader to stop the hollow slapping sound they make in rough water

Put cement in the keel and let it dry before you put them in the water