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Flat: No you know I can't get rid of eather. Love my dogs and I am a big 2nd amendment avocate. Still keep buying guns because I have a fear that I won't be able to one day. And yes the boat is always ready to go would love to get you in to some of these Caddo Lake Slabs.

Skip: 6 years ago I had never tasted Gumbo. Then I meet my wife and she fixed it for me. Yep I was hooked. I like it with the larger Ducks. Cornfield mallards are the best. We like to roast Wood Ducks and I like cornbread dressing with them. A plate of steamed new potatoes and onions with butter sauce. Dang I can make myself hungry. I am not a goose hunter as I have seen very few geese here. I think they fly right over us to the ricefields farther south of us. Don't think they like all of our trees. BTW Caddo Lake is called the wood duck capital of Texas.

Redman
Well I use to guide Duck & Goose hunting for a while too. Most of that was over on the West side of Houston in the rice fields. I have been hunting all my life, but gave the Duck & Goose hunting when it got just too much work and hard to find good places. Did a lot of my early duck hunting over in Louisiana.

On the Geese, if you ever get a Canadian or Speckle Belly, don't roast them as they are even a good bit drier than ducks. However they do make one fine gumbo. I don't mess with Snow or Blue Geese.

Also agree the Mallards are great birds and make a fine gumbo. I to like the teal and woodies roasted, but I still just like gumbo so much I will do them like that too.

Here on Toledo Bend we are just South of Caddo so we get a lot of Wood Ducks here too. You can hear that whistle all the time, even coming in right behind my house landing and roosting in the trees on the edge of the water.

BTW ever had any Etouffe (in Cajun sounds like A-to=fay)? Lot like gumbo, but much thicker. Great stuff.

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