Traditional Working Decoys

     Old fashioned working decoys were often made from a pine board salvaged from  an  apple box.  Lead was melted over an old wood stove in a tin can,  and their metal fins were often tweeked to swim.  

     Shown here are decoys made from a dense Ponderas pine. It was originally purchased  in high mountain Montana when I lived there, and rediscovered  recently while cleaning out the corners of my wood shed.  

     The old timers used a little  red paint to make their decoys  look like a wounded fish. Or maybe the red was the only color they had left after painting  the barn!  

Classic working decoys in three styles by McEvers:
  Forktail, The Two Fourteen Special, and the Baker.