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 Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: LakeForkJohn]
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12/17/15 01:08 AM
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Scoundrel
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Maybe we can get those guys that hunt the wild hogs from copters to get some permitsion to hunt the water turkeys by copter.
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: LakeForkJohn]
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12/17/15 02:18 PM
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BODA
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A friend of a friend, owns a crawfish farm in LA, lets just say that half of the dikes out there are made of cormorant carcasses
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: BODA]
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12/21/15 05:23 PM
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Jamoke
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Apparently they eat them in England. Cormorant Stew
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: LakeForkJohn]
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12/23/15 10:57 PM
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GoldSpoonr
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You really think your gonna win the battle against nature?? 
If you feel like a riot
Then dont you deny it
Put your good foot forward
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: GoldSpoonr]
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12/30/15 03:10 AM
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Techsan4
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You really think your gonna win the battle against nature?? You're right. Humans have never had an impact on the population of another species. What are we thinking. 
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: Jamoke]
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12/30/15 05:18 AM
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I found the use as a flare far more intriguing.
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: LakeForkJohn]
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12/30/15 05:35 AM
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Gusick
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: LakeForkJohn]
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01/01/16 01:01 AM
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We have a neighborhood lake, and it's covered with Cormorants since they started the rainbow trout stockings.
They just swim around and around and follow the schools of fish and dive down, come up with a trout in the bill and they toss it up and swallow it down, while the people fishing along the bank just watch and catch nothing.
They'll then waddle out of the water on the bank because they are too full to fly.
At least when they stock catfish the cats are too big for the Cormorants to eat whole but they continue to stock the trout to feed the birds. You're tax dollars at work!
Just one more cast!
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: LakeForkJohn]
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01/04/16 04:10 PM
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mule29
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: LakeForkJohn]
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01/06/16 03:05 PM
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Spring Lizard Waterdog
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I have personally seen them dive and come up with a two pound base on Toledo Bend.
My late and great bass fishing friend Robert Hale carried a shotgun with him. He hated them for eating the bass.
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: LakeForkJohn]
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01/06/16 08:08 PM
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H-TownCrappieMan
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Good grief. Cormorants and Grackles. Something needs to be done about this in Texas.
"Follow me and I will make thee a fisher of men!" Bust open my nets LORD!!! because, I am a wishing I was a fishing!!
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: LakeForkJohn]
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01/09/16 05:59 PM
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snake oil
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I shoot all I see on our stock tank........
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: LakeForkJohn]
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01/09/16 06:50 PM
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Aquiles
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I must admit I have accidentally smacked one or two during the trout stocking .
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: LakeForkJohn]
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01/09/16 08:39 PM
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Thunk
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They are what they are and they do what they do. They do it well. Too well at times. I personally love them for being the 'fish finders' that they are as they help 'zero-in' on where baitfish are located on reserviors 
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Re: Cormorants - Good or bad?
[Re: LakeForkJohn]
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01/10/16 12:07 PM
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Steven Hennige
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Bad, very bad.... Basically eat all the bait/pan fish out of lake in a hurry. big problem up north as well. st.lawrence, lake ontario. same kind of deal, illegal to kill them and no one seems to be able to get a permit. has been a half full of guys that have taken this into there own hands, have had there find's, paid for by the local fishing community. http://blogs.canoe.com/outdoorsguy/fishing/cormorant-coming-soon-to-a-waterway-near-you/
I fish, ontario and ny during summer. make trips to fl, And Texas during winter. My website is
Ontariobasstournaments.com
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