Thread: Duck hunting....catch and release.

Originally Posted by Gindog

RCC if your going to duck hunt please get out of city park. Timber never has trash ducks only in city parks and city sewer They all taste like chicken.

I see alot of those grebes int he sloughs in the timber I hunt, and Merganansers? OMG I never hunted timber I didn't see several of them.

I agree RCC. I'm not shooting a Yard Dart (Merganser) or a Grebe. I tried eating a Merganser once and it tasted kind of like the way a dead and rotten minnow smells. As far as the Grebes, I have a "pet" pair that hangs around and I wouldn't shoot one of them for anything.

Crappie Greg, you are welcome to stop and eat some more ducks at Spring Camp. I'm sure I'll have another 10-12 lbs cooked up!!

Originally Posted by arkcrappie

I agree RCC. I'm not shooting a Yard Dart (Merganser) or a Grebe. I tried eating a Merganser once and it tasted kind of like the way a dead and rotten minnow smells. As far as the Grebes, I have a "pet" pair that hangs around and I wouldn't shoot one of them for anything.

Crappie Greg, you are welcome to stop and eat some more ducks at Spring Camp. I'm sure I'll have another 10-12 lbs cooked up!!

I'll take ya up on that!!!

RCC I have never been duck hunting. I would love to sit in a blind and take some pictures. I have had duck fajita and duck sausage.Also some wrapped with bacon. I know the bacon is cheating but I enjoyed all.

Originally Posted by Billy E

RCC I have never been duck hunting. I would love to sit in a blind and take some pictures. I have had duck fajita and duck sausage.Also some wrapped with bacon. I know the bacon is cheating but I enjoyed all.

Don't do it Billy. Duck hunting is addictive like crappie fishing, just more expensive. Wrapped in bacon on the grill is the only way I've ever had duck and liked it. Never tried to make fajitas. Sounds like it may be good.

Originally Posted by Billy E

RCC I have never been duck hunting. I would love to sit in a blind and take some pictures. I have had duck fajita and duck sausage.Also some wrapped with bacon. I know the bacon is cheating but I enjoyed all.

If RCC doesn't have room, you are welcome to go with me. We hunt down south but you are welcome to come spend the night and get a couple of mornings in.

I gave up duck hunting when I wrote 'sweat' out of my contract in 1986 or thereabouts. It was not hard to do, as "DUCKS" left us in any appreciable number in the early 80's. Since then, you now have to "be somewhere" to shoot a duck. In 1978 you did not have to "be somewhere" to shoot a duck. You could shoot a duck almost anywhere. Stand inside Arkansas border, spit on the ground, call, wait, shoot. Retrieve, breast them out, grill, eat.

Now? Nah. Too much like work just for feathered liver. Got 500 acres in Almyra (ok, I married it, but still.........), and not one duck has ever lit there. They light 1,000 yards away, always have. Not there. I killed all my DUCKS in Faulkner County. Hmmm. Or maybe Conway County, I never did see a county sign on the Arkansas River.

Oh, by the way......just so all of you know..... a DUCK has a green head. If it does NOT have a green head, it can NOT be a DUCK. It can be a pinochle bird, and on a rare occasion, a duck. But it cannot be a DUCK unless it has a green head. You're welcome.

Loser duck hunting. Did get to see the show today.