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Originally Posted By: ewest


What kind of fish do you think that bird is eating? I am thinking it's a warmouth...

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Originally Posted By: Bill Cody
CB1 Those birds in your pictures must have been fishing in walleye and YP ponds.


I honestly don't remember where I got those pictures but I think the bird was feeding in the Great Lakes.


If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.






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Originally Posted By: ewest
Look at your prized SMB at 3 lbs go down the hatch. Multiply by the 100 that show up and there goes a bunch of your fish not to mention what it does to the population balance. That is all in the first day. Day 2 repeat - well you get the pic.



Won't happen. As soon as I see one or more I will run them off. I live at my ponds. I also dye the pond enough; visibility is not very good under water.

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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.






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Originally Posted By: catmandoo
Cecil -- you are disgusting!

Those pictures made me go out the the local supermarket for some chicken gizzards. I'm at work -- staying near the city. The first store didn't have any. I had to go to a second store, further out in the county (right near the WV/VA border)!




Reminds me of a book I bought recently. It's about writing plots and it makes an analogy about making an omelet in one passage. Damned if twice now I've gotten to that part of the book and had to stop everything and go cook up an omelet!


If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.






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I don't think cormorants are protected. I think you can shoot them at will. I think it is a common belief that they are protected but, they really are not. I could be wrong but one of my buddies told me he asked a Texas Game Warden about it and he said they were not protected. Does anyone know for absolute sure?
Please don't go shoot one until you know for sure in your state. I don't want anyone getting into trouble because of me.

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They are protected but in Texas you can get a permit to shoot them.

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Yes, they are FEDERALLY protected but, like Chris says, you can apply for and get a depradation permit.

Of course, by the time you apply and actually get the legal right to kill them, there will be no fish left in your pond and they will have moved to the next one.


It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.

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Sea gulls are protected too, so this tells you how much sense the federal laws make


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A friend down in Texas gets a permit to shoot them every year. Last year he thinned the herd by 200 birds.


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Originally Posted By: rexcramer
Sea gulls are protected too, so this tells you how much sense the federal laws make


Then I guess I had better not admit to tossing them Alka Seltzers as a kid! grin

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CJ IIRC I got that pic from aquanic which said it was a SMB. Can't say for sure. I have seen them empty a CC pond (commercial) of 10,000 LBS at 2 lbs per fish in one weekend.
















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