Lacassine Refuge full of Mexican.............. Squealers.

[Woodduck Commander]

Went out on a lottery hunt i go because someone cancelled last minute. Me and one of my coworker and my dog Dixie got into the blind (which are very nice) about 5:30... TREE DUCKS by literally the thousands... very little teal saw one flock of about 30 10 mins before shooting time and that was it... and a few pintails here and there... Ended up with 11 tree ducks and 1 Pintail... Not a bad way to start off the season. I think i posted the pictures right.... not sure... It was Dixies first actual hunt... and im pretty satisfied with her..

[Woodduck Commander]

ugh i don't know how to upload... i keep pressing upload and nothing happens

[Ray]

I hunted gators in the Lacassine Pool for 6 years. It was full of Squealers for gator season.
That was in the early to mid 90's. I think they were nesting there. Every day we saw hundreds.

[specksNdaSURF]

lol our lease has quite a few we had 10 i think this a.m.

[yak'em-n-stack'em]

How'd Dixie do

[specksNdaSURF]

Originally Posted by Deadly D

We use to have alot of them but since our marsh dried up and they pumped water on it we have not seen a one. I will eat one of them faster than anything except a teal.

i heard they are great eating birds

[yak'em-n-stack'em]

Really good.

[specktator]

Cooked a pot of 8 tree ducks last night. Best ducks I have ever eaten hands down.

[yak'em-n-stack'em]

I like woodduck better. But tree ducks are second.

[Woodduck Commander]

Originally Posted by yak'em-n-stack'em

How'd Dixie do

She did pretty good. the crippled ducks hissing and flapping at her freaked her out a little and the being down in the pit blind with the guns made her kinda nervous... over all great for her first hunt

[BIGJ]

Them Tree Ducks taste GOOD.

[all star rod]

At our lease in Kaplan during teal season, I would always see a group of 10-15 pass the same route every morning. However, I have not seen any as of SAT. I have never killed one but I have heard they are good eating.

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by specktator

Cooked a pot of 8 tree ducks last night. Best ducks I have ever eaten hands down.

Das right, der is not a better eating duck out there. Not teal, not wood ducks. Even their gizzards are pink instead of dark red. Just awesome eating birds.

[Woodduck Commander]

yeah i soaked em overnight in some water with a splash of vinger... they were all full of rice when i cleaned em... that meat is darn near white now.

[specktator]

Originally Posted by Feesherman

Das right, der is not a better eating duck out there. Not teal, not wood ducks. Even their gizzards are pink instead of dark red. Just awesome eating birds.

Yeh when we were eating them Saturday night, we were talkin about how they didn't even taste like a duck. More like a quail or something. And those big ole tender legs...Poo Yie dats good! We shot 8 more tree ducks yesterday and dropped 7-8 this morning but only found 4. Thank god for the tree ducks or we wouldnt be killing much. Killed 28 Saturday b/w 6 hunters in 2 holes, 14 Sunday b/w 5 hunters in 2 spots, and 6 today b/w 3 hunters in one hole. So out of 48 ducks in 3 days, 22 were tree ducks. Our problem is we dont have many teal. And thats usually what 80-90% of your bag consists of.

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by specktator

Yeh when we were eating them Saturday night, we were talkin about how they didn't even taste like a duck. More like a quail or something. And those big ole tender legs...Poo Yie dats good! We shot 8 more tree ducks yesterday and dropped 7-8 this morning but only found 4. Thank god for the tree ducks or we wouldnt be killing much. Killed 28 Saturday b/w 6 hunters in 2 holes, 14 Sunday b/w 5 hunters in 2 spots, and 6 today b/w 3 hunters in one hole. So out of 47 ducks in 3 days, 22 were tree ducks. Our problem is we dont have many teal. And thats usually what 80-90% of your bag consists of.

We didn't see any tree ducks on Saturday. I'd love to get some, I'll trade you some teal for some. LOL