Cormorants
It's way past time for the state to do something about these "devil birds". The standard reply to any query has been "we are looking into it".How many more years and thousands of trout,not to mention bass,sunnies ,well every species being decimated before action is taken? They do a great job at the hatchery producing fish for our over populated state. I was enjoying a great spring with two breeders and two oversized rainbows .Released those and kept some of the smaller browns for the table. These smaller fish which supply the most action for the fishermen are being wiped out in some lakes within days.So i put it out there to all:what do we do????
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is this a serious thread? |
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SC hunters killed 11,653 cormorants last hunting season. http://www.thestate.com/2014/04/04/....kill-more.html They ruined the fishing in Carnegie Lake.
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It's a messy issue. I wouldn't normally support killing non-game, native wildlife but this is becoming an issue. I wouldn't mind seeing hunters with a migratory bird stamp shoot those cormorants. When I was kayaking Merrill Creek Reservoir, one of those birds nearly shit on my head. I wasn't even under it. It actually projectile shitted in my direction. . |
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I usually don't like killing of things senselessly, however lets face it. These birds show up (only) during trout stocking periods each spring. Each spring there's more and more. I cant tell you how many times I've fished local ponds and the only one catching fish are the damn birds. I'm all for it. Let's solve this problem. Otherwise let the birds live, and keep barely reducing stocking (because of a bacteria outbreak, caused by birds in the first place) and stop charging us fishermen extra money for trout stamps. That's my two sense.
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Although we aren't talking trout here, you can watch the cormorants diving down and feeding all day long on crappies, sunfish, perch, small bass, etc. I realize that this is all natural, and they hafta eat too, but I also like to eat the crappies and yellow perch they are scoffing down. Also, at the dinky Mohawk Pond in Red Bank these birds seem to know when the stocking days are. Many of them sit on the pond overflow drain in the middle of the lake and rapidly go into action feeding on the trout as the stocking truck is dumping them in. I've fished both these places for many years, and I never remember seeing them when I was a kid 60 years ago. Now the cormorants are all over. Denny |
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i saw 1 eat a carp last year since then i have waged a secret war just know if i invite ya to a turkey dinner at my home it may be "fishy"
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they're just a part of nature, like snapping turtles, snakes and all the rest of stuff that eats the trout besides people... but unfortunately cormorants taste like garbage (fish actually). so no hunter that i know, myself included, would waste a shotgun shell on one... and i eat canada geese (not known for their flavor) all the time, so i am not exactly picky.
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Nothing I'm sure. They're just douche bags who get a thrill out of killing something. I've almost gotten into fights at the beach and lakes when I've seen people messing with seagulls or geese. I'm sure there will come a time when I see someone hurt a wild animal intentionally and I end up hurting them. |
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