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Buffs, get breasted and fried in bacon fat.
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Really? Those diver duck Buffleheads are pretty to look at but taste like mud and rotten fish. Dog food Dogs gotta eat too....🤷🏽♀️🦫 Catch and release duck is best....What a specimen! back to the marsh you go little buddy!!! ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/Qtnk5B0G/giphy-gif-cid-ecf05e4717h6ty6k1olqy5zcpkphvrl7fuf8z7kmipkoaka0-rid-giphy.gif) The best post on my thread asking “How to best cook duck”...Was “stomp them into the mud and go home” Pretty sure it was you....Still hilarious! 😬🦫
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Not a bad mixed bag. That has to be interesting hunting tides like that…definitely adds another element to the hunt. We skipped out this morning, had a couple inches of snow last night which turned the roads into a mess and didn’t want to risk towing the boat on ice pack. It’s been a slow season for us in NC, doesn’t seem we have ever gotten a good push of migrating birds. I hit some black ice on the way to the dock...Truck, then trailer heading into the oncoming lane. Steered out of it without an issue. Couple hours later across the bay I hear Police, Fire, and EMS light up and head towards where I lost control. Long story short. When I came through heading back home. A Stater was flagging traffic across from a bad wreck. Minivan lost control and got T-boned by an oncoming Dodge SUV....I stopped and ask the Stater if they people were ok....He said “No Sir, they’re in bad shape.” Only difference, I imagine was speed. I was doing 35 MPH because of ice. 2 hours later the sun was up and someone didn’t think that spots on the road still in the shadows can be slick. I’m guessing, but it looked like a 45-50 MPH wreck from the damage. 🦫 Saw the mini van maroon colored if it’s the same one on the wrecker. It didn’t look good with the side shoved in a couple of feet That was the one! Looked pretty bad. 🦫
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Buffs, get breasted and fried in bacon fat.
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Really? Those diver duck Buffleheads are pretty to look at but taste like mud and rotten fish. Dog food Dogs gotta eat too....🤷🏽♀️🦫 Catch and release duck is best....What a specimen! back to the marsh you go little buddy!!! The best post on my thread asking “How to best cook duck”...Was “stomp them into the mud and go home” Pretty sure it was you....Still hilarious! 😬🦫 Not sayin' I'd do such a thing. Just sayin'...
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That buck slumlord shot played stump the dummy with both of us in 2020.
Glad as fugg he killed him this year and some trailerite baiter around the border didnt.
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Beaver; What river were you hunting ? I used to hunt the Alsea in early 90`s. Ken I hunt on the Nehalem Bay, right across from the small town of Wheeler. There’s a few large island marshes there. 🦫
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That buck slumlord shot played stump the dummy with both of us in 2020.
Glad as fugg he killed him this year and some trailerite baiter around the border didnt.
👍🤘🤘👍👍👍 Yep. Slum had me convinced he was only limited to the young bucks as the fence liners had him choked down, Rene. I know what you can do with those oldsters that will eventually slip through.
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Beaver10;
Good afternoon Brother Beav, I'll assume from the fine photos and hunt story that you're doing fine today, at least for the time being.
Thanks so much for sharing the hunt with us, one of the big reasons I like to pull up a log at our cyber 'Fire is seeing how other people hunt in places I've never been.
All the best to you for the rest of the weekend and thanks again.
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Beaver; What river were you hunting ? I used to hunt the Alsea in early 90`s. Ken I hunt on the Nehalem Bay, right across from the small town of Wheeler. There’s a few large island marshes there. 🦫 That picture looked awful familiar. The Nehalem jaws is one of my favorite spots for salmon in the early fall - silvers and 'nooks both. I dun told you the WX was going to be too nice today for duck hunting, but you made out pretty darn good. Nice mixed bag! Hwy 20 between Philomath and Eddyville was pretty slickery this morning too. The shady spots were white and glassy. Beautiful day at the coast.
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Seems like I saw a duck once when I was a kid. Build a pond. Build it and they will come. Does it have to have water in it? Maybe use some to at least make some mud for them? Plow the snow over there and let it melt? Doesn't take much, ducks ain't so smart. We've had them fly in to our seasonal creek with some snowmelt in it. But, there may be some $$$ in it for you, apply for gooberment grants!
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Conrad
Spread a 100ft blue tarp on the ground.
Ducks are stoopid
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there ya' go Jim.
A TN solution for an Out West problem.
Them TN folks know lots about the uses of blue tarps.
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I would like that very much.
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Duck eating quality os a function of what they eat and the quality of the water they swim in. Lots of mallards here are hprrible, eating nothing but salmon eggs for months. Bufflehead are usually excellant, sprig too.
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that's one heck of a hunt story Jag! Thanks, Vals. Gettin too old for this stuff. Well done! 😎 A lot of people woulda just left that duck where it lay.
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Seems like I saw a duck once when I was a kid. Build a pond. Build it and they will come. Does it have to have water in it? Nope! Black plastic works. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/pXMV0qTk/download-1.jpg)
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Good job beav. We've been iced pretty good but stomped em today. The ice was tough on the yella dog, but he won't stop.
Got a few days left. I'm exhausted and ready for it to be over. But will try to stomp a few more.
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Seems like I saw a duck once when I was a kid. Build a pond. Build it and they will come. Does it have to have water in it? Nope! Black plastic works. That is crazy! I’ve never heard of such a thing. But, we get more than enough rainfall in the PNW to make lakes on otherwise dry fields. Still, very interesting 🤔 🦫
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Yeah man
Thought i was bullchitting u bout the tarp
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Good job beav. We've been iced pretty good but stomped em today. The ice was tough on the yella dog, but he won't stop.
Got a few days left. I'm exhausted and ready for it to be over. But will try to stomp a few more. I imagine you and yellow dog are tired. You’ve been crushing birds all year! Great stuff ! 🦫 PS Thanks again for the culinary instruction on making duck dishes. 👍🏼
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