Abstract: A water-plowing front wall is mounted crosswise across the breast of a buoyant floating waterfowl decoy for improving jerk-line life-like animation of the decoy. The water-plowing front wall has a broad width about the same as or twice as great as the decoy's body-width at the waterline. The water-plowing front wall has a low elevation that, when the decoy is at rest, the low elevation is submerged below the waterline. And, the water-plowing front wall has a high elevation that, when the decoy is at rest, is about level with the waterline or the waterline is about half-way up the front wall. High front wall produces a zig-zag swimming return, while the low front wall in combination with a diving plane produces a head-bobbing diving return.