Watched a video on YouTube of hunting iguanas.... I’m headed to Florida this winter and thought it be fun!! curious if anyone ever hunted them in Florida....what they taste like... what do you do with the skins?? Is there guides for such activities??

We ate iguana back on January first. Flavor wise, it was somewhere between chicken and pork. I saved the heads. I have seen the iguana skulls sell for a pretty decent price.

Keith

have a dragon fly shoot a couple times a year,iguana's are hard to spot up here.

A World War II Veteran & Trapper Friend Of Mine Who Has Long Since Passed On Said He Was Temporarily

Stationed in The Galapagos Islands During The Pacific War With The Japs.

He Claimed He And His Army Air Corp Buddies Would Regularly Go Out and Hunt The Giant Iguanas As He

Called Them.


Invariably, I Asked Him What Iguana Tasted Like and He Replied In That Timeless, Age Old Retort:

"THEY TASTE LIKE CHICKEN" !!!

w

Never have. In our younger days we would tie a large fish hook to around a four or five foot pole and wade creeks looking and hooking cottonmouth. That was a trip, fun but kind of dumb.

When I was in radio school in 29 palms,lizard patrol was a way to spend an afternoon.
We ate a lot of lizard tails.
But it was way more fun to throw a pillow case full of lizards into the BAM barracks. Lol

While trapping late one fall,Maddog and I saw one up in a tree.I climbed up (waders and all),fetched the frozen thing down from the tree.Now this is Minnesota--not the Gallopogas islands.
Only one I have ever seen.
Tom

A boat captain I had in Costa Rica took me out after fishing once and we fly fished for them in the forest. We had to cut the hooks on the flies because of all the leaves and branches, but they went crazy for the streamers when you retrieved them. They'd hold on long enough you could play them for a bit but they went crazy running around and up trees to get away. I can't imagine one with a hook in it's mouth.

I ate some on another trip to Panama and off the BBQ it was pretty good.

Pete

Does anyone hunt them in Florida or isn’t it legal??

To the best of my knowledge it is perfectly legal, you just have to have permission from the landowner. My daughter was in the Keys a year or so ago and she saw them by the dozens.

When I was in Puerto Rico last January doing disaster relief one of the locals we were working with shoots them with a pellet rifle. He said you need a head shot. They only eat the younger ones.

Saw a video recently too,Sam Wood was hunting them with a pellet gun in Puerto Rico.

I think they are protected in Panama now

If you're in a boat (The best way.), use a .410 with #4 birdshot to make up for the bobbing boat. Shoot them in the head. You'll get a lot more this way, and you can take shots when they are behind leaves or trying to escape. .22's are great if they are still, but more often than not you will have to shoot them on the move.

That sounds like fun.

I use to hunt them in the bomb dump when I was stationed in Guam. I used my trusty bow and arrows. That bow and arrows also accounted for a lot of wild boars. I never ate any of the iguanas.