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DownshiftAndFloorIt 
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| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/18/12 at 5:47 am to 3rdPart Tiger)
We don't have em so I don't shoot em
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Geauxtiga
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| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/18/12 at 9:54 am to 3rdPart Tiger)
I'll take spoonies over mallards, pintails any day. If they're fat, they're good. If they're skinny and red, toss 'em. I've seen FEW that are red and skinny.
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MTG325
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Shreveport, LA.
Member since Oct 2011
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| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/18/12 at 11:07 am to Geauxtiga)
As I've said before, theres at least three hundred smileys on my oxidation pond right now, eating turds as fast as they can.
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FalseProphet
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| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/18/12 at 1:05 pm to MTG325)
Hunted rice fields this weekend. We let them fly, but we let a youngster kill one off the water for his first duck.
I won't be eating it.
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LSUFan3434
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Iowa, LA
Member since Sep 2006
15748 posts
| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/18/12 at 1:08 pm to 3rdPart Tiger)
shoot em
they're amazing wrapped with cream cheese and fresh jalapeno in bacon
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windriver
San Diego State Fan
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Member since Mar 2006
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| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/18/12 at 5:13 pm to 3rdPart Tiger)
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TulaneUVA 
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| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/18/12 at 5:34 pm to LSUFan3434)
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they're amazing wrapped with cream cheese and fresh jalapeno in bacon
I could wrap my poo log like that and it would taste good
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Croacka
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Out of 30 birds we got this weekend, I had three with breast worms or whatever you call em
All 3 of the ones that had it were spoons, there were only about 7 spoons out of the 30
I've seen it in other species, just felt like mentioning it
FWIW, I know people will eat the ones with the parasite, but I toss those
This post was edited on 11/18 at 5:37 pm
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choupiquesushi
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| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/18/12 at 6:06 pm to KingRanch)
Infer many a guest spoon labeled as many other ducks.....
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yellowfin 
Illinois Fan
Paige is Pretty
Member since May 2006
51853 posts
| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/18/12 at 6:09 pm to 3rdPart Tiger)
Nothing wrong with a rice field spoonie
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Tchefuncte Tiger 
Navy Fan
Member since Oct 2004
20186 posts
| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/18/12 at 9:10 pm to 3rdPart Tiger)
No.
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LSUFan3434
LSU Fan
Iowa, LA
Member since Sep 2006
15748 posts
| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/18/12 at 10:45 pm to TulaneUVA)
I beg to differ
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jimbeam
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| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/18/12 at 11:03 pm to 3rdPart Tiger)
yes. fajitas or gumbo 
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LouisianaChessie
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Baton Rouge, LA
Member since May 2010
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| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/19/12 at 5:54 am to FalseProphet)
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Let a youngster kill one off the water for his first duck
My dad made me wait until I could shoot a duck in the air before I bagged my first one. He also waited for a good duck, in my case a pintail drake, before allowing me to take a shot. I didn't understand it then but I do now. That youngster was probably fired up about his first kill and rightfully so but that's something you never forget and if I'm doing the shot calling a first duck will never be a spoony on the water.
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EMP40 LSU
Member since Mar 2010
366 posts
| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/19/12 at 9:01 am to LouisianaChessie)
There's plenty of other ducks I'd rather shoot, but if I didn't have that opportunity, I guess I'd take some spoonies. The fact that they're a PITA to clean is more motivation to pass than the way they taste...
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bigbuckdj
LSU Fan
Member since Sep 2011
521 posts
| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/19/12 at 9:06 am to EMP40 LSU)
Depends on how the morning is going honestly
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cattleman
LSU Fan
South La.
Member since Feb 2006
111 posts
| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/19/12 at 9:09 am to LouisianaChessie)
Some spoonies will get into the saltwater marshes and eat there. If they do the meat will be reddish and taste like fish. Otherwise the meat is white and just like another duck. BTW I let them go.Rice field or marsh.
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choupiquesushi
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| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/19/12 at 9:12 am to Geauxtiga)
in the 3 duck days.. i could count on one hand the number of spoons we took...
but just like dos gris.. when it's slow....boom...
or in a crowded blind...
heck I have had guys from up north with me that WANTED spoons and blue bills.. cuz all they killed was mallards..(dakotans)...
FWIW... one of the most memorable retrieves any of my dogs have made was on a spoon.... and that one is in fact on the wall.
talking to some folks that didn't shoot but 2 or 3 times last weekend spoons would have been welcomed..
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yellowfin
Illinois Fan
Paige is Pretty
Member since May 2006
51853 posts
| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/19/12 at 9:12 am to EMP40 LSU)
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The fact that they're a PITA to clean is more motivation to pass than the way they taste...
How do they clean different from other ducks? 
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NimbleCat
LSU Fan
Houston, TX
Member since Jan 2007
5722 posts
| re: Spoonies...do you take 'em? (Posted on 11/19/12 at 9:14 am to yellowfin)
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How do they clean different from other ducks?
They are smiling at you the whole time. It is kind of creepy.
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