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[BYUHunter]

I use recipes from Hank Shaw's, "Duck, Duck, Goose".  My wife likes goose pastrami, corned and canned goose.

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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.

Do you fish the open ocean?

I fish out of Astoria across the bar every July for cohos and rockfish, but I hire a guide. I would prefer not to get my boat and trailer salty, and it's cheaper and easier than dragging my boat clear out there.