Cormorants

[Capt Joe]

Invasive species - DESTROY!!!!!

[SplitShot]

Every time I've been fishing Spring Lake in the last 2 weeks, I've seen comorants coming up in the middle of the lake and sucking down whole squirming trout down their throats..... I've never seen it like this in all these other years.... They're outfishing the heck out of me!!!!

[Jerseydix]

I saw this very same thing happening at a local stocked lake. A pack of about 15 would gorge themselves near the dam/ladder then swim off to mid lake I guess to digest, then repeat it all over. They were coming up with some decent sized fish too, Them ugly bastages are very efficient at what they do!

[Flemington_Fisher]

We need an open, no-bag limit season on these birds, along with the damned Canadian Geese. I'd love to take the 12 gauge and pick off these birds in between casts.

The state should give a box of shells for every 25 birds you bring in. Use the meat to feed the homeless.

[dboyd101]

You could make a bunch of these and sell them at Lord & Taylor:

Cormorant coat

[Ely]

These birds are just awful. I own a sailboat and 1 day i noticed they moved into the harbor where i moor my boat. Within weeks they invited their friends and they would sit way up in the mast. Judging by the amount of waste that collected on the boat below, these fish are prolific eaters. Finally, the harbor enforced a war on birds and all boats were required to take preventative measures likes putting bird spikes up on the spreaders and top of the mast or use these wind activated sweeping devices that prevented them from resting in a particular spot. The population lessened considerably but they did not leave. Once deprived of their high resting areas, the majority moved on to another locale.

[dfish28]

well, I was bowfishing, it just so happened that all the trout i shot were in these birds throats already. i got a good trout stuffed cormorant recipe for the rotisserie... officer