Out with The Preacher.....

[Mills]

A cormorant season is needed down here too.

[Joe from MO]

I was wondering about the Cormorant's. Those things are everywhere these days.

We used to call them water turkeys.... Although, I am not even sure where that term came from, or if anyone else ever called them that. At a distance you could mistake them for geese, and they they'd put on that glide and you knew they were water turkeys....

[Big D]

They have decimated the perch and walleye fishery in northern Lake Huron.

[MarketHunter]

I'm glad Ontario got one board with a season, I wish the US would do the same. They're thick on every large body of water up here.

[stumpstalker]

Cormorants. Another example of the folly of: not-threatened; totally un-managed; but protected. Kooks in control.

[charlie cleveland]

great pictures...your still the man on water fowl....is that forearm on your ten gauge a small one or is it a beaver tail....good shooting ....charlie

[Stan Hillis]

I shoot cormorants on sight. I think the true name for them is "Anhinga", but I could be wrong about that. I don't know what the law is concerning them in GA, but when I catch one sunning on my dock with it's wings outstretched in the sun, and it's excrement all over the chair it's perched on, a load of #4s ruins it's day.

[J. Scott Hanes]

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis

I shoot cormorants on sight. I think the true name for them is "Anhinga", but I could be wrong about that. I don't know what the law is concerning them in GA, but when I catch one sunning on my dock with it's wings outstretched in the sun, and it's excrement all over the chair it's perched on, a load of #4s ruins it's day.

A good friend who has since passed had 600 fenced acres in North Texas and several bass ponds. He used to practice with his Remington 700 in 7mm Rem Magnum on them! Said they blew up really nicely.

[Big D]

They're different birds. Similar but different. Google cormorant vs anhinga

[Stan Hillis]

Originally Posted by John Dallas

They're different birds. Similar but different. Google cormorant vs anhinga

Thank you, John. I learned something over coffee this a.m. I have Anhingas here, not cormorants. I can see the differences when pics are compared. Our birds are very black, even with feathers dry. The cormorants, like Destry shoots, are browner. The head on an Anhinga is slimmer, too.

I'm familiar with depredation permits for deer. They ruin our fields of young cotton and peanuts. I can see how these things would ruin a catfish farmer's profits. Wonder if fish farmers can get a permit to shoot ospreys?