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Mexican Squealers in Delacroix last week...
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:05 pm
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:05 pm
Drove into NOLA and fished a little last week and couldn't help but notice how many of these things were around. It's been a few years since I've been in Delacroix in the Spring but I could easily say that in the previous 30 years of frequenting the area, I've seen maybe 30-50 total. There were probably 100 just standing in the parking lot at Sweetwater and always a few at any moment I looked in the sky while I was fishing.
For the record, I could probably kill a limit every evening shooting flybys in my Houston back yard if such a thing were legal but I've never seen this in Delacroix or around the SELA Marshes like I did last week. What gives?
For the record, I could probably kill a limit every evening shooting flybys in my Houston back yard if such a thing were legal but I've never seen this in Delacroix or around the SELA Marshes like I did last week. What gives?
This post was edited on 3/30/16 at 10:47 pm
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Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:18 pm to Canard Noir
Why isn't there a special season on these like teal,, I bet the don't tast as good though
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:28 pm to Canard Noir
Played golf at grays plantation 2 weeks ago and there were thousands
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:34 pm to Canard Noir
We've gotten more and more of those whistling ducks up here every year. Lots of squealers too
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:37 pm to LSUballs
They have taken over a lot of wood duck boxes.
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:41 pm to Babewinkelman
Hundreds in my neighborhood
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:41 pm to WPsportsman
I actually heard they aren't bad tasting. Never had one. They fill the ponds in my parent''s neighborhood. I'm pretty sure I can get a limit every morning with a couple handfuls of rocks to throw at them they are so thick.
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:43 pm to KG6
I've eaten them fried. They're good. Taste like a fried puddle duck
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:57 pm to WPsportsman
I have been told they taste good.
You can catch them with a net near my office there are so many.
Last year LDWF was catching and banding there as well.
You can catch them with a net near my office there are so many.
Last year LDWF was catching and banding there as well.
Posted on 3/30/16 at 10:15 pm to eng08
I can attest they taste just fine.
As to a special season, what I saw also included quite a few Blue wings so consider the idiot factor in this discussion. While akin to killing a Mottled Duck in Teal season, the Dynasty newbs would surely do their damage...
Mostly though, I'm really wondering what's behind such a drastic change in their normal geography...
As to a special season, what I saw also included quite a few Blue wings so consider the idiot factor in this discussion. While akin to killing a Mottled Duck in Teal season, the Dynasty newbs would surely do their damage...
Mostly though, I'm really wondering what's behind such a drastic change in their normal geography...
Posted on 3/30/16 at 10:28 pm to Canard Noir
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Posted on 3/30/16 at 10:45 pm to MisterSenator
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Suburban Houston golf ponds year round. Annoying as hell, and in no short supply
I can also attest, they make an amazingly terrible racket. Just I call the White Wing Doves here in Houston doves on drugs, I'll say the Squealers sound like ducks on drugs.
Posted on 3/30/16 at 10:49 pm to Canard Noir
Fished Delacroix yesterday and they are everywhere. I saw less cormorants than I have in a while. I'll take the squealer over cormorants any day of the week. Also got on a good topwater bite. 
Posted on 3/30/16 at 11:01 pm to Saskwatch
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Also got on a good topwater bite.
Yes, we did too. Two of us caught 30-35 before the skies opened up around 1030 on Thursday. We fished in 2-3' of water on the edges of bays near Lake Robin, all nice fish, 0.5-3lbs. Pretty typical of the time of year but fewer big fish than we'd normally see right now...
Posted on 3/30/16 at 11:10 pm to Canard Noir
Had to look up what a Mexican squealer was 
the first paragraph kinda sounded like the parking lot at Home Depot in the morning.
the first paragraph kinda sounded like the parking lot at Home Depot in the morning.
Posted on 3/30/16 at 11:34 pm to Canard Noir
Thousands of them every evening when the sun goes down behind the levee by the intramural fields in BR. you can be on the far side of the field and hear them almost every single day
Posted on 3/31/16 at 2:08 am to bullred84
We've seen more and more in St. Bernard every year for the last few years. They come during the offseason and leave after the first cold front.
Posted on 3/31/16 at 7:19 am to Canard Noir
The white wings gave moved east as well. Must be el Nino
Posted on 3/31/16 at 7:39 am to WPsportsman
quote:Federal regulation and we absolutely wouldn't hunt them during hatch season (now)
Why isn't there a special season on these like teal
LA tried to include Woodduck in teal season but we would lose Federal funding I think
Posted on 3/31/16 at 8:48 am to Cobrasize
quote:It's a shame La. people have to make up names for stuff.
Had to look up what a Mexican squealer was
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