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That's good picture of you with that strap. Blow it up and frame it....... I'd like a bunch of those for my sausage pile.

Is a good pic, after a great blue hunt.

^ Indeed. Pretty blues

Nice hunts John, and great picture with that full strap!!!

John thought you may take interest in this. This is the map of a transmittered speck captured in Louisiana in October. It was killed this week in Indiana. The post said after capture it left Louisiana the Sunday of duck opener and spent a week in Arkansas It has been hugging the Illinois Indiana line in the meantime.

Damn, a little longer and I might have been able to kill it at Braidwood this morning.

Not the first transmittered speck that hauled tail to less pressured points when the guns went off here.

Duck Engr wrote:

John thought you may take interest in this. This is the map of a transmittered speck captured in Louisiana in October. It was killed this week in Indiana. The post said after capture it left Louisiana the Sunday of duck opener and spent a week in Arkansas It has been hugging the Illinois Indiana line in the meantime.

Wow they sure do travel more then I ever thought. That’s very interesting

Got me a few before the airboat cranked up

Johnc wrote:...the airboat cranked up

As if crawfishing weren't already enough of a bird deterrent.

Oh believe me I know. Just have to deal with

John,

As you seem to kill more snows/blues than most who aren't specifically targeting them, what are you doing with them for the table? Sausage? Gumbo? Give away?

Darren wrote:John,

As you seem to kill more snows/blues than most who aren't specifically targeting them, what are you doing with them for the table? Sausage? Gumbo? Give away?

My favorite is gumbo. With blues

Sausage is excellent

Jerky sticks with cheese and jalapeños or green onion is excellent

However to be honest. Most all our birds are given away and enjoyed by an elderly lady’s entire family so I would rather that,although about twice a season momma makes a blue goose gumbo

The guys in Arkansas do something with speck fillets on that green egg. It’s not cooked very long but wow they are good.

Those jerky sticks are highly addictive so be careful

Blues/snows are our favorite fajita meat.

Wow, given people call them buzzards and sky carp, wouldn't have thought they'd be so versatile on the table. Think we added ours to the sausage pile in the past, and likely still have with the rare occasion we kill a blue in recent years.

That said, have fond memories at the first of what would later become a very nice duck camp, with a goose gumbo simmering in the small kitchen tended by a close family friend that first got me into this whole game. (Rick, Mark's hunted with us a couple of times). Was then but a small trailer on site, and all you could need.

Think most would still prefer blues to specks in a gumbo, as their flavor holds up better. (Just as in fajitas or sauce piquant.) But when I first started with Doug we had an old gal who plucked for us to help feed more family than she could afford, and when I offered to boot-leg specks for her and hers, she asked for young blues, instead. Gumbo? Nope, they preferred young blues pot-roasted, too.

Can't say I've tried that, but Lowrie was from a generation that pretty much lived off the land, and that was her choice...

For those that knock them from a tablefare standpoint vs. specks, would seem difficult to put your finger on given the same diet/food sources.

Very rare occasion for me to have a speck and a snow/blue on the cleaning table at the same time to compare coloration or other characteristic. Had a pair of specks and a Ross's at Bunkie farm in Dec 2017, think that was last combo day.

Maybe this is the year.

I prefer cooking my speck breast meat on the big green egg or in skillet like steak to rare-medium rare, while saving the skin on legs for gravy.



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I think the buzzard refers to how they work

They soar and drop unlike specks traditionally circling

Mount idea for ya, John.

Lmao!!!

Hilarious Dave!!!!!!! We've all been there, and usually the source of many funny tales (but only afterwards ), especially at the hunting camp

Johnc wrote:I think the buzzard refers to how they work

They soar and drop unlike specks traditionally circling

They sure do soar and soar, glide this way and that. I'm not as much interested in those and playing that game. But in past seasons in Bunkie, on the nasty days I prefer to hunt up there......they come by low and on occasion just land in the pond around us.

A 10 gauge would likely run out of shells on plenty occasions.

Yes the front days or fog with geese in the area

If in the flight when landing around can be good but that’s a double edged sword. Every bird in the air goes to them. But if under the flight and can shoot without spooking the body things can get real good real quickly