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[Mildog]

Duck is great so many ways if you take the time to learn how to cook them!! I have fed dozens of people that say they don’t eat ducks!! ducks many times many different ways often I dint even tell them they ate duck until later and they loved it!! I smoke them, make jerky, make awesome sausage and just plain old roast duck I love them so does my wife, she always says I heard duck was not good!! She says it’s great the way you cook them!!
Most
People overcook it! And ly many are just plain lazy and don’t try!’
I eat a lot of DUCKs and love them!! I’ve given many people recipes and made converts out of them. There are so many easy ways to make duck super tasty, not just OK. Many ways t
Use it for those that don’t like duck., one is crockpot BBQ DUCK, make bbq sandwich’s most people wouldn’t know it was duck !

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I’m with you Bob when weather turns off, it’s time to chase ducks, ?then a little hard water when it freezes or strip south to
Powell for some milder weather and great fall/winter fishing!

Do you still have a lease at the Harrison. Like Dubob, I gave mine up 5 years ago. I've never liked the taste of duck, and it was harder and harder to find people to give them to. It was/is a great place to hunt, and I do miss it.

I have a share at HDC and hunt there quite often during the season.
Been pretty good over the years some better than other. Last year was not great. Several
Hunting buddy’s that hunt other areas and clubs agreed that it was not a great season. But still had done great shoots!

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I have the 15hp EFI pro-kicker, and it does not quite keep up when I am running all of my "nonsense": two 12" Garmin 126UHD's, a 9" Garmin 93sv, LVS34 Livescope, heated captain and passenger chairs, diesel heater, forward, deck, and courtesy lights, nav lights, 4 cannon Mag 10s, stereo, washdown, livewell pump, recirc system, etc. etc. With that said, it's really not an issue because the occasion to need all of that at once is rare.

I fully respect and admire your dedication to fishing in adverse conditions.  But when conditions like that exist when I would need all that heating stuff, I'll either be duck hunting or ice fishing. 

I mostly share that sentiment on the duck hunting. Ice fishing, but as much. I've got all the stuff, but I'd just rather be in the boat. My duck rig is a 15' havoc with a 40hp mud buddy surface drive. Put up the beavertail blind, kick on the buddy heater, and resist the urge to see who can shoot 25 coots in the fewest shells (my record is 17)

What kind of boat do you have?  Never heard of heated seats in a freaking boat.   Did you say 300HP?  What's your top speed?

And what does one do with 25 mud hens?

It's a duckworth 24 Pacific navigator. 24' to the transom, 27' with the offshore bracket. It does have a 300 Pro xs. Top speed on the Columbia, at just a couple hundred feet elevation, was a hair over 50. Utah lake will do about 44, deer Creek will tickle 43, and strawberry will tickle 42. It's big and heavy. 

I mostly quit shooting mud hens years ago. I still have the occasional temptation, and I'll usually let newer hunters take a few. I used to make a beef stew with them, it wasn't bad.

As for coot, they are much better to eat than most give credit, I shot s couple this year on a slow day for dog to retrieve needed some work! I had been a while since I had eaten any, I shoot it I’m eating it, breasted them out pan fried in butter with lemon pepper garlic powder a dash of Cajun spice med rare!!
Darn good! Much better than I remembered!!