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Old Time Barnegat Bay Decoy and Gunning Show
Tuckerton, NJ · Arts & Culture
- When
- September 26–27, 2026
- Where
- Tip Seaman County Park · Tuckerton · NJ
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Decoy carvers and duck callers gather at Tip Seaman County Park to sell hand-carved working decoys, compete in calling contests, and show off the Barnegat Bay sneakbox, a low hunting skiff native to this stretch of coast. Ocean County has run the show every fall for over 40 years.
The history within reach
Decoy carvers and duck callers gather at Tip Seaman County Park to sell hand-carved working decoys, compete in calling contests, and show off the Barnegat Bay sneakbox, a low hunting skiff native to this stretch of coast.
- The baymen of Tuckerton0.2 mi
One of the oldest ports in the country, and the home of the baymen, men who lived off the salt marsh by clamming, fowling and carving the decoys that are now folk art in museums.
- The Jersey Devil6.1 mi
The story is that a Mrs Leeds of the Pine Barrens, expecting her thirteenth child and sick of it, cried that this one could be the devil, and it was born, grew wings and a horse's head, and flew up the chimney into the woods, where it has been blamed for three centuries of strange tracks and killed livestock.
Restaurants from across Long Beach Island compete for the title of best chowder, capping a week of themed events across LBI known collectively as Chowderfest.
DQ Events runs a quarter-mile swim, 10.75-mile bike, and 3-mile run each September at Bayview Park on Long Beach Island, with separate duathlon and aquabike divisions for athletes who skip the swim or bike leg.