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re: Does anyone here have or ever seen a Woodcock?
Posted on 8/26/23 at 1:58 pm to saint tiger225
Posted on 8/26/23 at 1:58 pm to saint tiger225
Ever seen a loon try to walk?
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Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:02 pm to saint tiger225
How much wood would a woodcock cock if a woodcock would cock wood?
Posted on 8/26/23 at 2:21 pm to LegendInMyMind
Posted on 8/26/23 at 3:37 pm to saint tiger225
Come to any semi wet forest in North Louisiana late Nov early Dec and you'll see tons of them. And they will scare the hell out of you. They're fun to hunt with dogs if they're still there. Lately by the time the season starts they're gone.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 5:30 am to saint tiger225
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Does anyone here have or ever seen a Woodcock?
No but I’ve been snjpe hunting a bunch of times w/my cousins. Never killed, much less even saw anything…………and ended up lost every damned time.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 8:49 am to Big Bill
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Some mighty fine eating.
Agreed. Better than quail, in my opinion.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 9:12 am to Bigfishchoupique
Used to love to hunt Woodcock and Wood Ducks at the same time at my grand-père's flooded timber just outside Mamou. Great training on shooting birds at dusk with the woodies (duck) whistling nimbly through the trees and the woodies (cock) twittering,spiraling, dancing in the twilight just outside the forest. Mostly didn't use a dog so we had to wait for the woodcock to take flight and usually just before dark. Usually a humbling experience for even a seasoned hunter.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 9:55 am to FlyFishinTiger
quote:Roger Lee’s?
Used to love to hunt Woodcock and Wood Ducks at the same time at my grand-père's flooded timber just outside Mamou
Posted on 8/27/23 at 10:01 am to saint tiger225
Yes, I used to hunt them a lot when I was a kid. Hard as hell to snuff them out and shoot them. Had a German shorthair pointer and a cocker spaniel for that part. Lot of work but they are damn tasty. Not as good as quail but close.
Posted on 8/27/23 at 10:09 am to Quatrepot
Nah. it was past this place down the Oberlin Road Holiday Lounge
Then down Bergeron and near Grand Louis Bayou. Back in the 60's and 70's my Grand-père did hire two near elderly Aucoin brothers to farm the land. They lived in a one room house with their aging mother. My twin brother and I would hunt ducks there with each a box of shells. The Aucoin brothers would go with 3 reloaded shells apiece and never miss a duck. They always told us never to bring a rifle out to the land which had a 5 acre pond with 1/4 of it having timber. On our 15th birthday we got Winchester 22 lever action rifles. We went out to the Pond which had a levee and the big bayou behind it. The Aucoin brothers old beat up truck wasn't out at the pond so we unloaded tons of 22's across the pond into the levee. A few mins later we heard a man screaming waving his red flannel shirt out from behind a tree. It was one of the Aucoin brothers who had been working near the levee and had to bury himself down in the mud behind a tree in order to prevent getting killed. Man was he pissed at us and cussing at us in French all the while. We were horrified. My grandfather learned of the story and just shrugged it off as a lesson learned and told us to let the Aucoin brothers know if we were going to bring out a rifle.
No lie, after duck hunting in the early mornings we would stop off at the Holiday lounge and have a beer and then go to high school with two 12 gauges and the 22 left in the car which we didn't even lock. Man, it was fun growing up in Acadiana, except for having to dodge the drunks weaving home down HWY 13 after leaving Freds at 5:30 am:-)
Then down Bergeron and near Grand Louis Bayou. Back in the 60's and 70's my Grand-père did hire two near elderly Aucoin brothers to farm the land. They lived in a one room house with their aging mother. My twin brother and I would hunt ducks there with each a box of shells. The Aucoin brothers would go with 3 reloaded shells apiece and never miss a duck. They always told us never to bring a rifle out to the land which had a 5 acre pond with 1/4 of it having timber. On our 15th birthday we got Winchester 22 lever action rifles. We went out to the Pond which had a levee and the big bayou behind it. The Aucoin brothers old beat up truck wasn't out at the pond so we unloaded tons of 22's across the pond into the levee. A few mins later we heard a man screaming waving his red flannel shirt out from behind a tree. It was one of the Aucoin brothers who had been working near the levee and had to bury himself down in the mud behind a tree in order to prevent getting killed. Man was he pissed at us and cussing at us in French all the while. We were horrified. My grandfather learned of the story and just shrugged it off as a lesson learned and told us to let the Aucoin brothers know if we were going to bring out a rifle.
No lie, after duck hunting in the early mornings we would stop off at the Holiday lounge and have a beer and then go to high school with two 12 gauges and the 22 left in the car which we didn't even lock. Man, it was fun growing up in Acadiana, except for having to dodge the drunks weaving home down HWY 13 after leaving Freds at 5:30 am:-)
This post was edited on 8/27/23 at 10:35 am
Posted on 8/27/23 at 10:29 am to FlyFishinTiger
Interesting. We had a good roost down the Oberlin road too. Right before bayou Nezpique.
Roger Lee’s place was down the Oberlin rd too.
Roger Lee’s place was down the Oberlin rd too.
This post was edited on 8/27/23 at 10:33 am
Posted on 8/27/23 at 10:35 am to saint tiger225
Posted on 8/27/23 at 10:49 am to Quatrepot
The land was in our family for a long time but my Father ended up selling it maybe 20 years ago and I haven't been back since. I would have a little trouble finding it now. But it was a great thing for my twin brother and I back in the 70's. We started fishing it about 5 years after my GF had stocked it with bass. We were the only ones who fished it. The bass grew huge for such a little place. One time we caught some older kids poaching bass from our pond when my twin and I were going dove hunting. We had shotguns and they had fishing rods. We told them to leave. AS they grabbed their stringer of bass and were walking away, my twin brother in his best John Wayne impression said sternly, "Leave the bass". It was epic :-)
Roger Lee was an Aucoin, right? We are not Aucoins. My GF lived in Basile. We were from Eunice but had cousins in Mamou.
Roger Lee was an Aucoin, right? We are not Aucoins. My GF lived in Basile. We were from Eunice but had cousins in Mamou.
This post was edited on 8/27/23 at 10:52 am
Posted on 8/27/23 at 10:59 am to FlyFishinTiger
quote:He was a Lafleur. His place was right past the Silvan’s Country Kitchen.
Roger Lee was an Aucoin, right? We are not Aucoins
Posted on 8/27/23 at 11:15 am to Quatrepot
My great grandmother from Mamou was a Lafleur.
Heck, I wonder if we were distantly related?
Heck, I wonder if we were distantly related?
Posted on 8/27/23 at 5:44 pm to CocomoLSU
You said cock
Posted on 8/27/23 at 6:00 pm to FlyFishinTiger
You actual Cajuns are something else. 
I have never even heard of a grand pere' or a Mamou, but I think I get the picture.
I have never even heard of a grand pere' or a Mamou, but I think I get the picture.
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