I think someone should build blinds and start selling �turkey� hunts

We were saltwater fishing in Florida years ago in a canal and there was one sitting in a tree there by us. When we would drop our baits down to the bottom, he would go down in the water and eat the baits off our hooks and he never got hooked

Water turkey stew?

Caught one on crappie jig at lake worth barge years ago . Good fighter on 4 lb test.

Maybe if we could start blasting them they would fly back norf and stay there. 1 pound of fish per bird per day is ridiculous. Those suckers need to vanish. Besides soaking up oil spills, they are good for catfish under their roosts.

There are states that opened a season for them because they were decimating certain fish population (yellow perch I believe for one case) and if I remember right it was only a 3 day season but they wiped their As*es out pretty good. We have an "endangered" cormorant they are afraid hunters will mistake for the double breasted. Ive seen the endangered on Sheldon and it flies with a curled neck like a crane not straight like ducks/db corms. Unless I am mixing birds up. Please correct me

I used to sell a lot of #6 high brass loads to La. fish farmers. They all had permits to blast them when they showed up.

Not just a falcon thing, they have exploded statewide... NEVER saw them in Cleburne growing up and I see several hundred a day now... They go back and forth somewhere and flight line is right over my house

If they oppened all public water to hunting them for a week a year we cold maybe do some good... But honestly we need to net their nesting areas and be DONE

not so much.
Somehow, they ended up getting lumped into the endangered shore bird act. the biggest (and its been looked at several times) is how to remove them. and just them, from the list.
while it seems easy to you and me, by the time the politics and the tree huggers all get involved, it all turns into a convoluted mess.
With no real natural predators their numbers are skyrocketing. Hopefully, fish and wildlife (national, not state) will figure put a way to manage them.
And, shooting/hunting them probably isn't going to be the answer due to the fact that no one is going to bring them home and cpok/clean them.

send them north? heck with that!

us norfers hate em too!!!!!

It�s a migratory bird, so I think it�s protected. Lol. Nasty bird.

I believe I read on another forum that duck hunters/fishermen killed over 11,000 of them on santee cooper in short period of time and didn't even make a dent in the flocks using that lake...also recall this hunt was allowed because of a study that showed cormorants were decimating the shad,bream and small bass popul;ation...several guys on the forum had participated and one or two mentioned they had cut open some of the fatter birds and found small bass and bream in their stomachs along with baitfish...

Well, ship 'em up there then.

Just dump them at the boat ramp next to the gar and carp.