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[Vermillionaire]

1st morning in Arkansas, decided to try our best to control the bootlip population.ImageUploadedByTapatalk1385782539.799547.jpg

[marsh life]

Tell jdp I said lulz!

[Roy123]

You are a hardcore mofo. I don't know if I could force myself to lay the smack down on that many of them ugly bastards. Hopefully tommorrow is better. Dad and Jeff hunted #3 in GC this morning. One greenhead two teal. barely saw any. Perfect weather no ducks.

[MarshRat89]

People talk too much trash on em as long as when you pluck em that skin aint red you good. In the fields they almost never are bad its just in the marsh when they been eating fish we get a bad one here and there.

[AubreyLaHaye458]

Yep. We never hesitate to shoot em! Haven't ever seen a bad one.


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[Lreynolds]

My son and I worked hard in the marsh of SW LA Wednesday and Thursday, and our 2-day bag of 24 birds included 10 shovelers, 6 gadwalls, 6 bluewings, a greenwing and a mottled duck.

When we cleaned the birds, 5 of the 10 shovelers and 2 of the 6 bluewings had sarcocysts (rice-breast). I have no problems eating shovelers and consider bluewings excellent table-fare, but I can't stomach birds with those parasites despite knowing they are harmless to eat. Disappointing .......

[Ray]

Great Northern Shovelers.

[Bdub]

Cook em in a jambalaya is the best way I've found to eat em but like marsh rat said if it aint orangeish pink then there aint no big difference..

[Superspook]

aint nothing wrong with a rice field spoonie... they set in the fields all year getting fat on rice and are good eating.

[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by Lreynolds

My son and I worked hard in the marsh of SW LA Wednesday and Thursday, and our 2-day bag of 24 birds included 10 shovelers, 6 gadwalls, 6 bluewings, a greenwing and a mottled duck.

When we cleaned the birds, 5 of the 10 shovelers and 2 of the 6 bluewings had sarcocysts (rice-breast). I have no problems eating shovelers and consider bluewings excellent table-fare, but I can't stomach birds with those parasites despite knowing they are harmless to eat. Disappointing .......

Don't skin em you'll never know. No telling how many of those I ate because I never skim birds. The birds are still safe to eat. Nothing to worry about. http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/...arcocystis.asp


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[MarshRat89]

Originally Posted by Superspook

aint nothing wrong with a rice field spoonie... they set in the fields all year getting fat on rice and are good eating.

Every once in a while we kill a wonderer that came off the marsh and had been chowing down on fish.


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[Superspook]

Originally Posted by MarshRat89

Every once in a while we kill a wonderer that came off the marsh and had been chowing down on fish.


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gotta keep them for the seafood gumbo lol