Anyone ever tried coot?

[superstrutter]

Yes, there is actually a season and limit on the old wiley coot. Coots can be quite tasty depending on where you kill them. We killed a boat load of them one day in a reservoir where they were eating aquatic vegetation. Weput their very small breast strips on the grill with barbeque sauce and they were pretty awesome. As good as any duck I have ever eaten. Another time we killed some in aminnow pond. Need I go further. They were horrible. As long as they are eating aquatic vegetation they taste pretty good.If you haven't tried them, give them a shot. Of course they don't decoy too well.

[MB.prostaff.bgcalls]

I've tried them when i show them on my property, in a muddy swamp. Taysted like mudd[:'(] didnt like them at all compaired to ducks and geese.

[SwampTHING]

Nope havent tried Coots,, still get real ducks up here!

[Duckbuster612]

Ive heard roadkill is better than that garbage and 1 of my buddies quoted coot as..."HAZERDOUS WASTE"

[KonaBoy]

For my first three years of duck hunting, I shot coots on a regular basis. The taste fine to me, and if I neededa bird or two for lunch, a coot was usually shot. This year I never even put my gun up on a coot. This yearI went more to the quality of the hunt then the quanity of birds shot. There's nothing wrong with them IMO

[Rebel Hog]

Nope, not any Coots, but many Purple Gallinules!

[SwampCollie]

They aren't wood ducks....but they aren't mergansers either.

I'd love to see them on Iron Chef. The Iron Chef Coot Shootout. The Mud Hen Marathon.

[johnch]

Deep fryed coot breast chunks is pretty good eating

Not going to say they are as good as Woodie

We have a coot fry every year
This year we let my freinds 12 year old son shoot them
On the slow days he kept my lab bussy

6 couples ate 80 or so coot breasts cut into nuggets, frys , beer and the other fixens
Not 1 was left

Johnch

[21b_sapper]

Some of you guys must not know how to cook. I think coots taster great.But then again us coonasses eat just about anything.

[duramaxnay6]

Coots are eating the same stuff as all the other ducks 99 times out of 100. They aren't a corn fed mallard, but they eat fine. I'm not sure how they got the stigma of being so terrible.