Union County Trout Poachers

[bunker dunker]

taste like chicken!!!!!

[phil]

I had to check the date on this one to make sure it wasnt from 2015 or 14, you get the idea

[bunker dunker]

and they still taste like chicken

[Eskimo]

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I think the Double Crested Cormorants you are seeing are actually native birds and that is why it's such an issue to drive them away from areas where they are negatively affecting the game fish populations.







Here is an article dealing with the over-population of cormorants: http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/fea...ll-a-cormorant


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[buzzbaiter]

Its why I laugh when anglers complain about poaching. Its bad behavior but truthfully Mergansers and Cormorants do far more damage to our fisheries then all poachers combined(along with herons, eagles and ospreys). I've seen Mergansers on the Passaic in groups slashing through the shallows after fish. keep waiting for a pike to grab one.

[RussH]

I watched a cormerant at Dahnerts eat at least 6 stocked trout in the hour I was there yesterday. Multiply that by 4 birds and I fully understand why I only caught two fish. I didn't have scuba gear and a spear like they do!

[buzzbaiter]

Forgot to mention gulls. Seeing more and more of the white ones at freshwater ponds. They walk near the water and then dive in hauling fish onto land and eating them. Damn good at too. One gull got three pickerel in about an hour.

[jimcnj]

Not aliens. Have been here long before us!

[Esox Luciano]

Originally Posted by jimcnj

Not aliens. Have been here long before us!

X2 on that!! White man can't do away with everything!

[GDubya07]

Got one at Rahway River Park in the back he just sits there and waits

He is really good

El Bastardo

Gdubs-