My mallard stinks like fish.

[seanps]

Hey fellas. I'm hoping to get some advice.

I shot a nice mallard last weekend near a salmon-spawning river. Looks like she'd been spending most of her time in the water that had lots of dead and nearly dead salmon around.

I found salmon eggs in her crop when cleaning (like Marc, whose post I saw last weekend). No smell initially, but when she was plucked and clean I found she really, really smelled fishy. We're a little worried about cooking it, lest we stink up the house.

The bird's in the freezer now.

My question is: Is it likely all the ducks in that area are going to be that nasty smelling? If not, I'd head out tomorrow and see if I can bring a few more home (I'd love more, but there's only so much you can do with a single-shot 20 gauge!).

[Gunner]

There's a good chance that they'll all stink!If you are hunting near the Chehalis or Vedder(or some of the smaller salmon streams),most of the local birds will be grazing on rotten dog salmon.At this time of year if you can't hunt the birds feeding in the farm fields or the salt marsh you're better off leaving them alone.They are basically inedible! Gunner

[ruger#1]

The real tasty ones are in the sewer lagoons.

[f350ps]

Fillet it and cook it on a cedar plank. :) K

[Gunner]

Fillet it and cook it on a cedar plank. :) KAre you speaking from experience Kelly?:mrgreen: M

[Duckman]

Fillet it and cook it on a cedar plank. :) K

And then eat the plank?

[seanps]

Haha. Guess *that* bird is going in the trash.

Too bad!

[f350ps]

Ya Murray, I've whacked a few of them stinky ones. I used to shoot a spot up at Deroche during freeze ups and the Mallards would be gorging on dead dog salmon. If ya buried them in the garden they grew great Roses though. K

[Gunner]

I learned fast!One great December shoot on the Chehalis flats cured me of shooting "flying fishes"! I moved back to the salt marsh.I'll be on the Coast for another treatment Monday,I'll give you a call later in the week Kelly. Cheers,Gunner

[f350ps]

Sounds like a plan! See ya then. K

[303Brit]

Well if it quacks like a duck and flies like a duck, But smells like a fish

then it's a fish lol

unless of course Chuck Norris says "it's chicken", then it's chicken

303

[crazy ducker]

smoke it then you have a cheap smoked fish that your in town friends will love and think you are the best thats why I shoot mergansers and coots

[behemoth]

you say it smells like a fish?

You should be happy it doesnt smell like a duck

[Lucky77_]

LMAO you guys kill me

[Bryson]

If i kill anything i do my best to eat it cause that duck died for u.
Skin the duck pull out the guts and lungs wash the sh!t out of it put spices on it bbq sauce whatever u want on it just slow cook the duck in the oven with chicken broth at 200 for 6 hours every hour scoop the broth on the duck if u can and when its dinner time its so tender it just falls off the bone and doesnt have that gamey duck taste to it. I started doin it this way a few years ago cause some of the ducks i have killed have been really gamey and its hard to chew them down. Hope this helps.
cheers

[gamehunter6o]

Mallard smelling like fish? I thought on two things smelt like fish and duck wasn't one of them.:confused:

[seanps]

It's in the Little Chief smoker now: I'll update after dinnertime!