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MakoJJ
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 Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 4:50 pm Post subject: Fishing ULM... Sort of... |
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The reason I said "sort of" is because I gave up on the fish. Only got some small trout on plastics (plum ttf) and live shrimp on the edge of the ICW. Decided to go duck hunting with a few buddies and my dad and we had good results with about nine birds (mostly gadwalls, some other species mixed in). I think thats pretty good, considering we never hunted ducks before. I'll post some pics 
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the report! Out if curiosity. What do you do with the ducks? Always wondered how good they are as far as table fare.
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MakoJJ
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| Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| SaltyMutt wrote: | | Thanks for the report! Out if curiosity. What do you do with the ducks? Always wondered how good they are as far as table fare. |
Ducks are my new favorite game species . Nothing like a flock of them flying right towards you. However they taste a bit gamey and are a pain to clean. If you soak the meat in milk over night they become more mild.
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MakoJJ
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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Finally got the pics of my phone:
The decoy set up:
The birds:
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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I see mostly redheads, no gadwalls. One merganser.
Congrats on your hunt. Remember, we are allowed two redheads per person per day out of a six bird bag limit. |
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MakoJJ
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| SeanHHH wrote: | I see mostly redheads, no gadwalls. One merganser.
Congrats on your hunt. Remember, we are allowed two redheads per person per day out of a six bird bag limit. |
There were four of us (didn't all shoot at the same time, took turns because forgot 20 gauge shells ). I am not experienced, but none of those heads except a few are red maybe it is just the picture (or they could be females?). I held them up to a TPWD printout, and they looked just like them. Thanks for the advice though, I am going to do more research to make sure we doing everything right.
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ArtificialB8
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| MakoJJ wrote: | | SeanHHH wrote: | I see mostly redheads, no gadwalls. One merganser.
Congrats on your hunt. Remember, we are allowed two redheads per person per day out of a six bird bag limit. |
There were four of us (didn't all shoot at the same time, took turns because forgot 20 gauge shells ). I am not experienced, but none of those heads except a few are red maybe it is just the picture (or they could be females?). I held them up to a TPWD printout, and they looked just like them. Thanks for the advice though, I am going to do more research to make sure we doing everything right. |
SeanHHH is correct...those are all redheads (mix of drakes and hens), plus a merganser. Drake gadwalls have black bills and a small patch of white feathers on the speculum (top trailing edge of the wing)....hens have yellow bills with black mottling. |
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MakoJJ
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Yall are right those are redheads mostly. Thank goodness we decided to stop when we did, or that GW would have given us a big ol fine 
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Yeah in the bays you'll get mostly divers like Redheads. Yall did pretty good for never duck hunting before though. You just pick a random spot and setup or what? I sure would love to hunt down South but I always end up heading East toward Port O'Connor because that's the areas I know.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 8:15 am Post subject: |
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Did a lot of duck hunting back in the days that I lived in Nebraska. Loved it, but soon learned, don't shot a duck that dives, go for the ones that feed out in the fields.
There used to be a lot of free hunting in NE but it has been more years back than I want to mention. Put it this way, may buddy and I would walk down the street with our shotguns and no one would call the police.
But then when I started teaching in TX the kids had their guns in the back window of their pick-ups. |
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MakoJJ
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| justletmein wrote: | | You just pick a random spot and setup or what? |
Sort of, but we scouted out areas with ducks flying overhead the day before
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