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Ran across this or something like it while cleaning my desktop. YMMV...

Interesting read.... I think it's the same.

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bigfin wrote on Jan 21^st, 2013 at 4:22am:


Eww.   

Puckster wrote on Jan 21^st, 2013 at 3:07am:

They eat twigs all year round, so I'm not surprised your venison tasted good.

You're welcome to come up and show your love of the local fauna anytime. But this area is bow-hunting only: I know that excludes guns, and I'm pretty sure it excludes 4x4's too.

PhantomJug wrote on Jan 20^th, 2013 at 8:58pm:


Whitefish are delicious.  I love em smoked, but baked and fried are also good. Rich, white meat.

Hey Joe -- 

Early one dark February morning many years ago, as I drove north to go ice-fishing in Minnesota, the truck ahead of me clipped a deer and it kept on going.  I stopped and walked up to the deer lying in the road with a broken neck.  I called a warden, got a permit to take the deer, hauled it off the road and dressed it, and took it home. 

Friends laughed and said the deer would taste awful on account of all the twigs in its diet this late in the winter.  How wrong they were!  It was the best road kill I've ever had!  Very good venison!


I know this is off topic, but your picture and caption recalled this event.

prouboy

JChief wrote on Dec 31^st, 2012 at 5:00am:


The ONLY way they are good is smoked.  Full of bones and you would be warned to hold your nose once you cut into one.

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Here's a young buck taking a break from munching his way through the willows on the back 40 this afternoon. They need lots of twigs in their diet to keep their digestive system in good shape. He had two younger buddies with him, no does.

Almost all the deer we see out here are mule deer (like this one) - only rarely do we see white tail.
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Puckster wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2012 at 6:09am:


Caught one trolling on Ramsey Lake, Spanish River watershed and threw it back. Didn't know what it was but kind of looked like a shad to me. Got back to camp and saw a Canadian couple with two on a stringer so I had to ask. They said they were whitefish and I threw back what they considered to be one of the best tasting fish. I have had smoked whitefish and they are tasty.

Very interesting Starwatcher.  The MN DNR staff person I talked was familiar with them, said their sitings were not all that common, but didn't seem to excited by them.  Probably because their impacts (as your citation noted) are not well known and their bite doesn't harm humans. 

He said they go for years unnoticed, in some alternate form attached to the underside of vegetation.  Then, when conditions are right, they "bloom."


prouboy