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Hello,
It's been a while since I made a thread. I go on regular walks along the waterfront trail in Toronto. I see a lot of Long tailed ducks there. After admiring their beauty, I started asking myself how do they taste? 🤔 lol.
Has anyone had experience hunting Long tailed duck, where are some recommended areas to hunt.
Like always any mentors have the time for inexperienced hunters like myself to tag along just message me.
Take a Cormorant, Red-breasted or Common Merganser, add two cups of blue-green algae and two cups of ground up zebra mussels, and that pretty much describes what they taste like. I've never tasted anything worse. They are barely edible even in a curry dish. Eiders and scoters are candy compared to these. I'll never shoot another one. Don't see the sense in killing something I can't eat. Also from an ethics point, their global population numbers are in trouble, as are all of the sea ducks (scoters, eiders). I enjoy watching them decoy and bounce when they land. Beautiful bird to watch. Presquille, Wellers Bay, West Lake are all good spots to see good fall numbers of them.
C'mon Fenelon, everyone knows that you need a 4:1 ratio of zebra mussels to algae, I would have thought that was like knowing to add salt at the end of cooking to enhance their flavor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenelon
John
Okay so Long Tailed Duck is off the menu because of the bad �� taste lol ��Quote:
Originally Posted by johnjyb
They still look like a fun and challenging hunt.
Found a YouTube vid: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yHNVd4...ature=youtu.be
I’d buy your cook book, lol! Great description.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenelon
There's not too much of a challenge to hunt them. You can throw out any decoy you want (Mallards, Bluebill, Goldeneye). They are not wary and just come straight in to the decoys. I never saw much sport to it, and after eating the first ones I shot, I'll pass on hunting them ever again.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueBoard15
If you haven't seen the Angler and hunter episode on Long tail hunting might give you and idea of where and how to hunt them, even a recipe to utilzie them.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueBoard15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYxj3_rc8jE
Marinate it right and it could taste really good.
marinate overnight, and cook with alot of vegies and Pomegranate paste. tastes and fells kinda like liver.
Challenging to hunt? Umm, not really ... stop the boat, stand up and waive your arms, they will come over to see what you are ... I have likely shot as many of them without any decoys set and I have with decoys set. As for taste, the dog loves them, but I have to air out the house after cooking.
Hello Blue Board 15,
I hunted them at Presqu'ile from 1986 to 2003 ... a very cooperative duck when other ducks do not decoy to your spread as I could usually count on them to make my trip worthwhile in November and December ... missed hunting them.
I never had an issue with how they tasted ... better than Bluebills, Goldeneyes, Buffleheads and the rest of the ducks that have been mentioned ... so try them skinned and breasted out.
Jerome
Cook them on cedar plank, through duck out and eat plank. Only duck that’s worse eating is a Ruddy Duck.
Good god Jerome! I bet you'd eat a dog poop and gravel sandwich and rave that it had flavour! You're the first person I've ever heard that will say they'll eat them. I have NFLD friends who like Murres , Scoters and Eiders, but wouldn't touch a long tail (even with 12 Black Horse ale in them).Quote:
Originally Posted by Buddy Boy
LOL Mike Miller must have the constitution of a billy goat. Marinated or not,those fish ducks could gag a maggot.Quote:
Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers
Hello Fenelon,
I enjoyed your response ... still laughing at it.
I tried eating a Black Scoter once ... my mother prepared it the same way as my Longtail Ducks and I was able to swallow it ... barely!
I have also tried eating a Common Merganser twice ... vomited both times!
I had a friend from India however who loved them (mergansers) as much as any other duck that I had him try ... "taste is in the mouth of the beholder" ... I guess.
I am looking forward to my first Tundra Swan dinner.
Jerome
Jerome you should try some of that Swede Surströmming if your gut is tough enough to handle long-tail duck ! It's basically rotted herring. The cans are swollen and they bubble when they are opened. Litterally smells like pig s$%t. Most people will puke as soon as you crack the tin with an opener. I knew a guy that opened a tin once in his house and it almost got him divorced. As soon as he cracked the tin and the stink hissed out, his beagle whined and started grinding his neck into the linoleum floor. We had a kid in grade 10 eat a piece as a dare, and he washed it down with a warm can of V8. He belched it up about 40 minutes later in chemistry glass and blew the stink through a hollow Bic pen body, onto the head of the girl that sat in front of him. She promptly vomitted on the floor. Three of us got sent to the office because we couldn't stop laughing. We always wanted to bring some to a movie theater and crack a tin in the dark right after the movie started. I have regrets to this day that we never did it........ (but we did take a Gerber baby food jar with road killed skunk anal glands into the highschool grade 9 dance!!)
Fenelon,
I think that you may have missed your "calling" in life ... you should have been a comedian instead ... laughed so hard that my eyes were tearing up!
Jerome