I've hunted Little Skookum Inlet (next inlet over) for Scoters after Thanksgiving on a number of occassions. It can be a slaughter, and we made a lot of noise, but a clam farmer client asked us to shoot them, and the 600+ birds raft up there for 6 months eating 50-200 baby clams per day. The clams are about the size of your pinky nail.

All went into sausage.

We did make a bit of a game out of it, trying to drop birds into other's boats. We lined up across the inlet at a point about 200 yards across. The birds don't like to fly over land, and rarely fly more than 40 yards overhead.

We stopped a few year back, as it was almost too easy. In a usual season we would head out for 4-6 days with 7 hunters. 28 birds a day was the take, and they usually would move over to Eld Inlet after 4 days of hard hunting, so they got the message.