re: Spoonies...do you take &#39;em?

Posted by Geauxtiga

No man's land

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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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Posted by MTG325

Shreveport, LA.

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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.

Posted by FalseProphet

Mecca

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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.

Posted by LSUFan3434

Iowa, LA

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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

Posted by windriver

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Posted on 11/18/12 at 5:13 pm to 3rdPart Tiger

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Posted by TulaneUVA

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Posted on 11/18/12 at 5:34 pm to LSUFan3434

quote:
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

Posted by Croacka

Denham Springs

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Posted on 11/18/12 at 5:36 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt

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 11/18/12 at 5:37 pm

Posted by choupiquesushi

yaton rouge

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Posted on 11/18/12 at 6:06 pm to KingRanch

Infer many a guest spoon labeled as many other ducks.....

Posted by yellowfin

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Posted on 11/18/12 at 6:09 pm to 3rdPart Tiger

Nothing wrong with a rice field spoonie

Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger

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Posted on 11/18/12 at 9:10 pm to 3rdPart Tiger

No.

Posted by LSUFan3434

Iowa, LA

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Posted on 11/18/12 at 10:45 pm to TulaneUVA

I beg to differ

Posted by jimbeam

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Posted on 11/18/12 at 11:03 pm to 3rdPart Tiger

yes. fajitas or gumbo

Posted by LouisianaChessie

Baton Rouge, LA

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Posted on 11/19/12 at 5:54 am to FalseProphet

quote:
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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Posted by EMP40 LSU

Member since Mar 2010

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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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Posted by bigbuckdj

Member since Sep 2011

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Posted on 11/19/12 at 9:06 am to EMP40 LSU

Depends on how the morning is going honestly

Posted by cattleman

South La.

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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.

Posted by choupiquesushi

yaton rouge

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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..