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Title: Sea Ducks!
Post by: quackattack90 on September 23, 2012, 02:37:40 PM
I am wanting to try hunting sea ducks in the lower columbia washington side.  Anybody have some info for me about areas to go, tips, teqniques etc.  Thanks!!!
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: johnnyaustin44 on September 23, 2012, 04:17:12 PM
I'm no expert but the sea ducks I have shot don't seem to be to difficult to hunt. find some birds and set upe decoys and it honestly us that easy in my experience but as with most waterfowl hunts location makes all the difference
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: BiggLuke on September 28, 2012, 02:13:42 PM
Take some OLD mallard decoys you don't care much about, and paint them all black with a white patch on them.
That'll look like most all sea ducks.
It'll fool the hell out of 'em.
When you decoy for sea divers, remember to keep all the decoys in a long line.
Not in small bunches, like you normally do for mallards.
Good luck.
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: Skagit_Hunter on September 29, 2012, 09:14:21 PM
And remember.... to many nasty sea ducks will ruin a batch of duckaroni :chuckle:
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: Kola16 on September 29, 2012, 09:24:08 PM
 :chuckle: The only reason that I don't hunt sea ducks is that I couldn't even begin to eat those things :puke:
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: RadSav on September 30, 2012, 12:50:22 AM
They require lots of butter and tarragon.  I prefer them cold too.  Even makes scoter and coot edible.  Not bad durky either.  Though it does take a while for your brain to not expect the taste of elk.
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: Skagit_Hunter on September 30, 2012, 06:55:25 AM
They require lots of butter and tarragon.  I prefer them cold too.  Even makes scoter and coot edible.  Not bad durky either.  Though it does take a while for your brain to not expect the taste of elk.

Ya ok you keep telling yourself that if it works. It is like eating the azz out of a skunk.
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: singleshot12 on September 30, 2012, 07:17:08 AM
Seaducks are fun to shoot and i can slay the hell out of them but good lord them suckers taste horrific!

Then why kill them? I'm sure the anti's are just loving your statement
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: BigGoonTuna on September 30, 2012, 09:33:13 AM
i've got a friend who says he likes to soak coots in milk overnight before he cooks them.  says they taste just like a steak...i'm not sure i'm that brave.  i only shoot the ones that quack or whistle!
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: Skagit_Hunter on October 01, 2012, 06:44:31 AM
Seaducks are fun to shoot and i can slay the hell out of them but good lord them suckers taste horrific!

Then why kill them? I'm sure the anti's are just loving your statement

and pointing it out helps to :yike: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: singleshot12 on October 01, 2012, 06:56:35 AM
There's just too many people out there just wanting to kill chit! for the fun of it, and it really pisses me off :bash:  What do they do with the birds if they don't eat them?? Throw them in the trash or bury them in the garden for fertilizer to justify not wasting :dunno:
By not pointing it out isn't right either :dunno:
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: BiggLuke on October 01, 2012, 10:40:12 AM
There's just too many people out there just wanting to kill chit! for the fun of it, and it really pisses me off :bash:  What do they do with the birds if they don't eat them?? Throw them in the trash or bury them in the garden for fertilizer to justify not wasting :dunno:
By not pointing it out isn't right either :dunno:
Good point....
Don't kill what you don't intend to eat.
Just remember, that "WE" are hunters, not "COOKERS".
lol....
I bet if you went on some chef forums, they'd have a ton a Delicious recipes for all manner of seaducks. It's all in how you cook 'em.
Bacon wraping helps....     :chuckle:
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: Special T on October 01, 2012, 11:57:14 AM
I think we should be shooting the hell out of Mergansers and they don't taste much different. Not all hunting is about food, sometimes its about management. Do you shoot coyotes? do you eat them? how bout crows or skunks?
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: h20hunter on October 01, 2012, 11:59:18 AM
Was it last year a guy posted up a request for a yote....cooked up a hind quarter at Christmas? I think it was. However, If I shoot a yote he is staying where he lies....crow food.
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: Kola16 on October 01, 2012, 01:45:52 PM
Bacon wraping helps....     :chuckle:

Maybe. But if you have bacon-wrapped, duck breasts, then you throw out the duck breasts.....it would taste a lot better  :tup: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: Cougar125 on October 01, 2012, 01:48:32 PM
They require lots of butter and tarragon.  I prefer them cold too.  Even makes scoter and coot edible.  Not bad durky either.  Though it does take a while for your brain to not expect the taste of elk.

Ya ok you keep telling yourself that if it works. It is like eating the azz out of a skunk.
You'd know something about that, wouldn't you?  :chuckle:
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: Fishstiq on October 01, 2012, 01:52:06 PM
Bacon wraping helps....     :chuckle:

Maybe. But if you have bacon-wrapped, duck breasts, then you throw out the duck breasts.....it would taste a lot better  :tup: :chuckle:

I'm trying this recipe when I get home.
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: lokidog on October 01, 2012, 01:57:02 PM
A peppery currie does wonders with some apples and onions.  Or soak (I don't) and fry up like a steak, garlic and onion, nicely browned, decent eating.
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: Kola16 on October 01, 2012, 03:02:35 PM
Bacon wraping helps....     :chuckle:

Maybe. But if you have bacon-wrapped, duck breasts, then you throw out the duck breasts.....it would taste a lot better  :tup: :chuckle:

I'm trying this recipe when I get home.

So you still have left over sea duck  :chuckle:
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: Skagit_Hunter on October 02, 2012, 06:21:24 AM
Predator hunting is a big diff from waterfowl. I grew up, you shoot it you eat it. That is why I won't shoot clam eaters, Mud hens, or divers. Ya ya cans and reds are good for divers. But the rest taste like azz.
I don't shoot saw bills. even though every one taken out saves a salmon. I also think the State needs to do something about the numbers of double enders.
There are a lot of gomer shooters out there. But talking to them in private is much better for hunting, Than publicly hammering them for the world to see.
The anti's want division.
It seems there are a lot of new hunters. They didn't grow up hunting. They need direction, Not a bashing.
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: Special T on October 02, 2012, 07:55:05 AM
 :yeah:
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: BiggLuke on October 02, 2012, 12:59:04 PM
I think you guys are way off base.....
This poor guy just wanted help hunting sea ducks.
You know, "advice" on how-to, not Bitching about Why-would-you.
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: singleshot12 on October 03, 2012, 06:29:17 AM
No one was bitching at Quackattack, someone had posted how seaducks were so fun to shoot but so terrible to eat. I personally have an axe to grind with that mentality, especially after one of my best duck hunting spots were shut down because of sea duck hunters shooting piles of scoters letting them drift onto a private beach to rot.
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: washingtonmuley on October 03, 2012, 06:55:17 AM
quote author=BiggLuke link=topic=105845.msg1390492#msg1390492 date=1349207944]
I think you guys are way off base.....
This poor guy just wanted help hunting sea ducks.
You know, "advice" on how-to, not Bitching about Why-would-you.
[/quote] :yeah:[
Title: Re: Sea Ducks!
Post by: Skagit_Hunter on October 03, 2012, 07:27:42 AM
quote author=BiggLuke link=topic=105845.msg1390492#msg1390492 date=1349207944]
I think you guys are way off base.....
This poor guy just wanted help hunting sea ducks.
You know, "advice" on how-to, not Bitching about Why-would-you.
:yeah:[
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saltwaterhillbilly deleted his post. about just shooting them.
That is what the bitching was. Not quackattack.
Last minute tension.....  :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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