The best meal you ever had in a Duck Blind

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anthony m coons sr

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One thing about Duck Hunters we love to eat in the blind. When I was a new jack it was a boring sandwich or a stick of beef jerky. As I got all my own equipment the first thing I put in all my boats and blinds were camp stoves. It didn't matter how long I was going hunting for. I always had a meal ready to go. Hunters from all over the river use to stop by around lunch time to see what I was cooking. From duck and goose to lobster and crabs, steak, My boys loved when I made home made sauce and pasta with duck and goose meatballs, venison meatballs, clams I even cooked elk. Thank GOD for low tide sometimes. I could never say no to a hungry hunter. I like to eat too! To me that's is way duck hunting is one of the best hunting sports there is. You can hunt ,talk cook,sleep and still get your limit. I made duck hunting fun, even when the birds didn't fly.

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Some of the guys way out on long island prepare some awesome meals in the blinds. At the DU dinner they bid for a full day trip with breakfast and lunch. I'd have to get bigger waders...
 
I have plenty big enough waders for you. I enjoy everything about the outdoors . Food really does taste better in a duck blind. Thanks Capt.
 
A half eaten apple paired with a smoked turkey and ham sandwich, also never finished, because the birds were moving so well that day.
 
Joseph

I've had that a ton of times in the blind, and a few times when it was fresh right from the swamp. Yummy
Thanks for the post, Still nothing better then breasting and grilling, from the sky to the pan, The way it was meant to be.
 
Capt

Stop it! you making my mouth water. Nothing like that on the Hudson River, But to tell you the truth ! Stripe Bass is kind of good in the blind. Little olive oil or butter, peppers onions, garlic, rapped in foil just a touch of red hot cooked slow in a cast iron pan. yum, yum. Thanks Capt.
 
I have had some great meals but the one that I cannot forget was the worst one. I was in college and had a 13 year old brother John that always begged to tag along on duck hunts. My hunting partner and I decided to go bar hopping the night before a duck hunt. We did not really have room to take my brother the next day as we were going to load our boat full decoys.

John begged and pleaded to go with us and we relented as long as John made us a nice lunch. He told us he would fix us up a great meal.

The next day my partner and I were hurting a bit from a beer or two too many from the night before. We were also a bit queasy and had not eaten and were looking forward to lunch.

I got a sandwich that was two pieces of bread with about a half-inch slab of onion on it with a fist full of salt dumped on top of the onion. Sprinkled across the top of that were diced up pieces of a licorice whip. We never forgave him for that.
 
JC

That had to suck, I would of lost it. Your a better man then me. I once forgot my cooler full of a great meal at my house do to a few cold beers. Back in the day, It was cold as heck it was snowing. We were hunting in a floating blind. The bad thing was the tide went out and we were on the mud. The only thing we had shot was a few common mergansers. My friend had a big bottle of orange soda and two hard rolls. He bust my butt about leaving the food behind. So I told him I would make a good hot meal out of that duck and a few pack of Raman noodles I found in the blind. So I cook !and made a orange sauce out of the soda poured it over the fish smelling ducks an noodles. It was so cold out and we were so wet that that crap I cooked was so dam good. It saved the day for us. We were on mud for about six hours. And we would of ate a seagull that day.

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Now that's a duck blind meal. Used to gun a small island on sinepuxent bay with clean sandy bottom.Walking out in decoys during a lull would find clams and get enough for a meal for my gunnin partner and myself. Nice clean briney clams washed down with a wee bit of scotch was a good mid day snack! Of course several oysters roasted in shell on grill back at another spot wasn,t bad either.
 
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I hunted with my nephew on the north shore of long island. Started off bad, replaced my gas line to put the gas tank in the bow. First thing, won't start. Still had the small tank a hose, started up, late but off the ramp.
Set up and pulled the boat up and found 30/40 large oysters. Loaded the deck, got my tools box out, found the oyster knife and was ready to start. He couldn't believe I had a fillet, oyster and scallop knife in my duck boat [be prepared]. Always hunt the salt marshes and usually find appetizers.
 
Capt.
I don't hunt in the salt marsh, But I carry just about everything a hunter would need. I don't play the game like some of my friends. Oh I got that at home. I'm ready Thanks Capt your post are always great to read.
 
My favorite meal was when in college we would hunt the salt marsh on Ocracoke Island on Thanksgiving break. We would take turkey and oyster dressing sandwiches. Nothing ever tasted better in that ambiance.

On that note, it is amazing how something tastes so much better when outdoors than when you make it at home. Grew up trout fishing in North Central Pa and we would make a sandwich, usually bologna or ham with cheese, lettuce, onion, tomato, and mustard. Carried it for 4-5 hours in the back of my trout vest, then would eat it along with stream water in a collapsible cup. At home it never tasted the same. My best friend and I take an annual trip back now after 30+ years. We've switched to Hamm's beer instead of stream water, but the sandwich tradition is unchanged.

Best "nature" meal was trout fishing in Newfoundland on the beach in 1976. Caught sea run brook trout, dug clams, had salmon we caught that morning, couple fresh lobsters and sea scallops we picked up at the fishing dock we passed. Cooked all that on the beach over an open fire. Topped with some Molson, it was priceless.
 
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