White pork rind on a #2 treble 24" under a cork and plop it in the water under the roost tree. Hold on tight. Blue cats hit hard.

Its the three S's.
Shoot
Shovel
Shut up

Bad. Unless you are a catfisherman.

I had a favorite fishing spot where I could catch a lot of perch , crappie and bass every time . 2 years ago a flock of cormorants moved in . I'm lucky to get a bite now .

As stated , they're protected . Check your local ordinances concerning fireworks . Bottle rockets are your friend .

Your not going to get a permit unless you are a fish farmer.

& start shooting them too

Ummm...no.

Fish farmers in Mississippi got tired of losing millions of dollars and hired aerial applicators to spray the roosts with soapy water before cold rains, causing the cormorants to lose their oily coating and die of exposure. It worked very well and limited losses.

However, the farmers were filed against for the massacre by the feds. The feds lost in court due to jury nullification, too many relatives of the jurors worked in the fish industry and would not vote themselves out of work.

Now if we could get some of that common sense here in Texas....

So pork skins taste Cormorant $h/***??

Come to Mesquite City lake and watch them water turkeys do their work when the rainbow trout shows up. I bet they get 80% of the fish that the state releases. I hate them dam birds.

Reggie

Definitely a law that goes against preserving the fish in the lakes & should be changed!

They consume allot of bait fish. & game fish.

i know i have caught ALOT of bass and crappie in my lifetime that have battle scars from them

Cormorants have been around the same length of time as fish. So how do we have fish if they eat them all?

I don't want to kill them all. Just about 95% of them. Them and the gar.

So have you ever attempted to get a permit got depredation to shoot them? I have and was unsuccessful because, yes I did not have a hatchery and wasn't a fish farmer.
I know it says in the regs that a permit can be issued for protecting game fish but I can assure you you will not get one at the Fort Eorth office or the Abilene office. And they take their orders from Austin. I was told the part of the law that says issued for protection of game fish meant that TPWD could get a permit for their people or to contract a company to control them.
If you have received a permit to kill them to protect you tanks or private lakes I sure would like to know which office.
The definition of a fish farm was someplace that was permitted to sell fish. For example even though Camalot Bell isn't a hatchery per se they sell fingerlings so hence they are permitted to sell them.