One hell of a start!

Good for you Carl! Great write up and pictures. One of these days I'd love to shoot a Canvasback. Of course I'd have to hunt where Canvasbacks go. You don't see many sitting in ponds and back waters like where I hunt. I heard a few weeks ago a Can was shot in a marsh I've been hunting. Who knows I have a couple of weekends left in the season. Keep up the good work.
 
Chris,

Its pretty easy recipe:
6 parts soy sauce, 3 parts mirin (sweet cooking sake, Asian Markets have it, white or red wine also works) and 1 part Worcestershire sauce. Liquid smoke if you have it, I didn't this time & it turned out fine. Then tablespoon or so brown sugar, a ton of black pepper & garlic powder and then red pepper to taste. Should be "grainy".
Marinate overnight.
Put into the dehydrator until done.

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Steve,
Thanks! Looks like we finally might have a good year after a decade of disappointing duck numbers.

The Cans and Redheads on Upper Mobile Bay and the lower Mobile-Tensaw River Delta are primarily feeding on eelgrass (Vallisneria americana). They also feed on other grasses, such as milfoil, water star grass, etc..
We also have a ton of small snails in the grass and I think they feed on those as well, I find shell fragments in there gizzards.

Down on MS Sound, the redheads feed on Widgeon Grass (Ruppia maritima) and Shoal Grass (Halodule wrightii).

The Scaup seem to feed on both the grass and the critters in it. Buffies on the critters: little shrimps, copepods, mysids, snails, worms, etc..
 
Ed,
Thanks!
You don't get cans on the MS River up there? Or are there not any large pools in your area? I don't know much about the big river.
 
Ed,
Thanks!
You don't get cans on the MS River up there? Or are there not any large pools in your area? I don't know much about the big river.
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The Mississippi Valley Flyway is a major corridor for divers. A few years back I was hunting with Dave "Shady" Larsen in his local pool. This particular pool is very wide. There were estimated 10,000 Canvasbacks sitting in the channel at the time. Every once in a while a barge would come through and kick them up. It was amazing to see. The sky just turned black when they would get up and fly around the barge and set back down when it went by. I personally don't hunt the open water blinds so I don't see them often. I had heard a couple of weeks back similar numbers were there but I didn't go to see.
 
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