last season someone wrote about using halloween bats with flapping wings for crow dekes. I believe they did something to modify them, does anyone remember what ? Thx
Shad, I'm glad you ask I was wondering the same thing. The best I can remember is a post by Shanedog, about adding a remote. I was at a store the other day and they were cheap enought that a guy could buy several of them and pitch em when done with em. But I think the post you are looking for is gone forever.
thx guys, nows the time to find them, gona hit the party store today, they have tons of halloween stuff. Mike I've been up to the river 3 times, got fish everytime, 2nd time up we were into the coho's big time. Tons of people & encon is being a pain, they were all over the river last Sat. measuring leaders & hook gap. Still fun
They can be found on Ebay especially this time of year. Cover the eyes with electrical tape and use a hot glue gun to glue a spring on the battery cover. With the spring attached you can use a dowel that fits inside the spring to get the decoy off the ground so it's flapping away in the decoy spread. It runs on 2 AA batteries. I get about 4 hours running time in normal weather.
I modified them by spray painting them flat black. (They are very shiny black.) It kills the shine and also covers the glowing eyes.
I also take some of that black plastic water pipe, the type that comes in huge rolls. I cut out a long skinny beak with tin snips. About 2" long and about 1" at the wide end. I hot glue the beak to extend over the blunt nose of the bat. Only takes a minute or two to add this beak.
I don't put mine on a post, instead I either hang it from a tree branch on the edge of a field or clearing with light monofiliment fishing line. OR, I stick a long branch in the ground at an angle and hang the bat from the tip of that. This adds a lot more action I believe. Instead of just the wings moving, any small breeze with move the bat around and with the wings flapping, it really looks wounded.