Don't cut yourself too short Kaas, you killed your ducks. Was great having you over, we'll do it again before the season is out I hope. And maybe there will be a few more canvasbacks the next time. Bluebills and redheads will fill the bill but there's nothing like those big wedgeheads to really make for some gunning.

And of course, as you know, I always hope for the occasional merganser.......


Destry

The shot of the trip was a tie with Nathan taking a big bull Canvasback high over the stern at about 45 yards in the bright sunshine. He folded it like a dishrag with his Beretta Extrema. Destry made a very nice shot with his big DHE over the bow on a crossing hen red breasted merganser out about 50 yards heading left to right. It crumpled smartly and fell behind the little grass island we were positoned in front of. Stone, the Lab was just as happy to bring back the saw toothed bird as a real duck. Destry was even more pleased than the dog was...

Destry is still shooting at mergansers??? Slow day was it?

Rich, it is written "the guy in the stern always has the luck" which goes for fishing as well as hunting.

I figure every one of those sawbills I shoot saves the lives of hundreds of innocent perch and baby walleye.

DLH

Maybe if you cooked them like a fish with lots of lemon juice you could come up with an award winning dish? David

You just keep killin'em Destry. A few years ago I was on Lake Champlain in Vermont fishin for landlocked salmon and lake trout and the owner of the boat was tellin me that those damn birds had just about decimated the perch and pan fish populations. He also said that ten years earlier a 12gauge and a few boxes of shells would have solved the problem but the tree huggers would have none of it.....:banghead:

I have heard similar storys from guys on lake Ontario....

It's not really the sawbills that are the problem, it's the commorants that really tear up the gamefish populations. They've been trying to get a season on them here in Michigan for several years but the bunny huggers won't let it go through. A different governor might solve the problem, but our current girl is a friend of those types of folks. I think they're called Democrats if memory serves......

Destry

Sorry Destry..My bad..I was talking about cormmorants not saw bills..:banghead:

There's a great recipe for cormorants and mergansers. First you put a brick in the body cavity . . .