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Ducks in the French Broad River
allen griggs
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I saw these guys yesterday near Marshall, NC.
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Female Mergansers. Fish eaters.
And they're all in a row.
On another web site I was told that Mergansers officially don't live this far south. I just sent my info in to the duck experts.
Where is HeDog, he gets a kick out of stuff like this.
The Audubon Guide says they winter there uncommonly. I saw some in the Arkansas River Valley when I was in college. They had a reputation for not tasting good. I never had the courage to test whether that was true.
Great PIC.... Thanks for sharing...
The ducks are nice. I am still looking for the French broad!
My buddy back in Georgia was a big duck hunter. He ate lots of duck, wood duck in particular. He said Merganser was no good.
Any duck that eats a lot of fish is not gonna be great eating.
Look! MR DUX!
MR NOT DUX!
OSAR! CDEDBD WANGS! MR DUX!
OOOOOOOO.....MR DUX!
Merc (nice dux)
I remember that! MR DUCKS!!
LIB.....MR DUX!!!
🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲
""I am still looking for the French broad!"" They are still in Mobile or New Orleans recovering from Mardi Gras.
Laissez le bon temps rouler!!!
Best Regards - AQH
Thank goodness the old French Broad river has been cleaned up.I have heard big muskys are being caught out of the river.When I was growing up it was so polluted that all the locals stayed out of it.
Musky's?? I thought they were a northern fish. As in Upper Penninsula Michigan, northern Wisconsin and Minnesota.
It would appear they get down into the Carolinas...
This is a fish ladder at Redmon Dam. It has been out of commission for decades. Recently the power company spent big bucks, maybe $75 Grand, to rebuild the ladder. They stock walleye in the river in Tennessee. This ladder allows the walleye to swim past Redmon Dam and continue upstream.
Here is another problem with the river. This homeowner went 80 feet up the hill behind the house to where the spring is, built a wooden form with walls 4 inches thick, and made a 100 gallon reservoir for spring water from poured concrete. He runs a pipe down to his house on the river bank. There are hundreds of these poured concrete reservoirs around here. He's got pressurized water in the house, good spring water, right there on the banks of the French Broad River.
No need for a costly septic tank. He runs the sewage pipe right to the river. This is called "straight piping" and was a common practice fifty years ago.
That's just nasty. On the other hand I guess you can fish for musky and brown trout...
Muskies have almost be caught in the Marion VA. area, get the almost part.
I have heard it is a once in a life time opportunity to get one on shore or in a boat.
We had a pretty severe flash flood near here a fer years ago. Ripped out bridges and many of those make do septic "tanks". I guess that was the only good thing from the flooding. Owners had to install proper septic systems.
Griggs, does Toe River run into the French "lady"? I think it empties into the Nolachucky and from there maybe the French?