Bacon wrapped duck

Firetruck

The mighty Mississippi has been very good to us the last week or so. All the sub freezing temps has helped to lock up all the fields in the delta and the ducks flocked to the river.

I marinated the breasts in italian dressing overnight and this afternoon wrapped them in bacon and on the small at 400 direct til they were 165. Dollie fried some taters and steamed some corn.

yum yum

Ripnem

Cheers to your successes JoJo. I sure didn't do my part with the fowl this year. Outside of the DU stuff. Concentrated heavily on upland this year.

Hoss

:ohmy: :P Some of dem fields you speak of are MINE!!! :( YUMMEE lookin eats FT!

Ripnem

So I gotta come down duckin too?

rsmdale

Lokks tasty,I have some teal and pintail in the freezer have to trythat.I will be hunting wed,and might do some fresh.


GOOD EATS AND GOOD FRIENDS

DALE

Hoss

This year SUUUCCCKED!!!!...!!!!! :(

Firetruck

Thanks Adam it's been a lot of fun

Firetruck

I bet ya'll hate all that ice. It's really the only time I go out.

Firetruck

Come on we'll shoot em up.

Firetruck

Good luck Dale, We've got ice coming down the river now from up north

I think this afternoon was the last time for a few days til it all clears up.

Hoss

We used to River hunt,was great when all else froze up,I guess like the last week.Now we only got flooded timber and fields.I don't even bother anymore! :(

Crimsongator

So when do I get to come over and "whack em and stack em"

Hoss

Nowadays we see most of our ducks after 2/1!!! ! :( But whadda ya expect when D.U. builds reservoirs up north and pours 10,000,000 bushels of corn out of dump trucks on manmade islands in those resevoirs????? :huh: Not another dime of my money! :ermm: Just sayin!

Firetruck

Gene come on and we'll try em.

Firetruck

We seem to get big pushes of ducks only when they get a big snow up north. Then the ice of course brings em to the river.

The St Francis was out in the relief last week and I didn't even go over there. I bet it was hot.

Lanier Jim

I love duck - was it good and moist-tender? I'd like the recipe -

LJ

Crimsongator

I should have met you 5 years ago when we actually lived there

Misippi Egger

You're right, Hoss! Why come south when you are being spoon-fed in the midwest "preserves"? Kinda like government handout programs.......

Worst duck season in several years!

Misippi Egger

JoJo,

Try this. Duck breast cubes, soaked in plain water in the frig for about 1 1/2 hour. Drain, add a can of pineapple chunks and the juice (not sugar-added). Soak for another 1 -1 1/2 hour.

Wrap with bacon and skewer with a pineapple chunk on either side of the duck kabob. Grill til rare to medium rare. Non duck eaters will LOVE it !

Ripnem

Ain't never heard of that. Git any info on that?

Ripnem

http://deltafarmpress.com/news/biologists-du-ducks/

Just doesn't make sense to me. I can see a couple clowns throwing (bating) the occasional field or slough, but DU dumping millions and millions of dollars of corn? For what? Good hunting for a few local guys/groups?

Hoss

YESSIR,and it's Bullshat!!! Politcs,My friend!

Hoss

EGGACTLY!!! OBAMADUCONOMICS!Spend baby,spend!!!All the BIG contributors to DU are up THERE!Hold em,BABY!Let em fly South when they've eaten 10,000,000 bushels of D.U corn and the season is OVER! :( Sad,but TRUE!

Ripnem

If this happens, then pictures of said feed piles would exist. I just can't wrap my little brain around the concept. My first thought is why? It just isn't reasonable or rational. Ducks move when and where they want to. It's all about the weather. We see it first hand.

Show me somthin with teeth.

Hoss

I've seen it firsthand in Southern Illinois,yessir with my own eyes.I have no pics but I ASSURE you I saw it happen,Big dumptrucks dumpin loads and loads and loads of corn on a manmade penisuila(sp) in WREN Lake in Southern Illinois compliments of D.U.!!!To feed the poor ducks that could have easily flown to Southern fields flush with wastegrain? :ohmy: SKREWEM!

Hoss

They only move when there is No Food!Snow cover,freeze etc.They are lazy like people,they only go as far as they have to for a meal!

Misippi Egger

I've been told it was in the 'preserves', not where they actually hunt. Also in some of the more western states. It holds the ducks in the area longer than they would have naturally stayed since they have plenty of food.

Ripnem

This sure wouldn't work in a state with a real winter. Even a 3 story pile of corn will cover with snow and when the water is hard, they bail. I've smacked'em in the morning and had zero in the area the next morning. The huge flocks outa Canada will even pass right over a whole state if the weathers bad enough.

If this really happens....pictures WOULD exist and wouldn't be too hard to find. i can't find any.

Frank from Houma

Clark - kinda sounds like these

I partially cooked the bacon so I could keep the duck medium rare.









Also did some without the pineapple and bacon then served with a plum sauce.

JLOCKHART29

I am so ashamed. I had to use last years duck for Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners never mind felleting any out! With the wetest year on record we have had so muck rain that the flooding is unbeleavable. Hunting in oak tree crowns in 20 foot of water. Most of the ramps we cant even get to an have to launch the boat in the middle of the road. Glad you are doing some good and can't beat those wrapped fellets! :woohoo:

Big George's BBQ

That looks Great