Cormarants

[Silversnake 1,099]

I have been on a tourist boat trip in Japan where they use them to catch native freshwater fish. They gag them so they can't swallow the fish and send them under water on long lines. The fish are served up to the customers. You could pat them after the tour they were strangely dog like and very soft. I have also seen them wild once when I was fishing on a wharf here in Oz (seaside not freshwater) when we caught undersize fish they would wait for us to throw the live fish back in like a dog waiting to chase a ball. They were very skilful at catching them. We tried to test them by throwing the fish further and further away and they never missed. Also at my sisters wedding the grooms 94 year old grandfather got shat on by one right next to me, all I heard was a huge splash and turned around to see half of him covered in yellowish brown liquid. Poor old coot was in his best suit. I will never forget his wife start wiping him with a handkerchief. Game effort but was never going to clean a tenth of that mess lol

[Ratmanwan 66]

I live in the middle of the Midlands and we've plenty round here, couldn't be any further from the sea.

[neil cooney 10,416]

The Cormorant that's used for fishing in Asia is a different species to ours.

[Greyman 32,450]

 

 

If they don't fly away then they don't fly back. Seen them 60 mile inland but not common. Seen an interesting program before with some foreign lads with fully trained ones diving off the boat and bringing back big fish for small treat. Anybody able to put up a link it's probably on utube

We had them at fisheries in Cheshire which is 40km from the sea

The lads into fishing would ask the lads duck shooting the rivers to blast them if they seen them but they were very clever birds and new the range of a shotgun I don't remember anyone ever shooting one except one idiot who claimed he shot one flying in the air freehand at 300 yards with a .22 (he was good at bullsh1t stories) but they are certainly more popular on the bigger lakes within 20 miles of the sea. Would they be any worse than an otter.

many years ago there was a story in the anglers mail and on the front cover was a picture of a guy who looked like a terrorist fully camo,d up with a balaclava on and a handful of dead cormorants that he had shot, I new the guy in the picture he was a well known carp angler and fish farmer,his normal technique was to sit on an island in the middle of the lake and just shoot them coming into roost with an air rifle, he had shot so many that nearly every carp angler in his area had a cormorant beak handle on there baiting needle, unfortunately the overfishing of the sea is driving anything that lives there further inland in the search for food, there is a seal that's been living in the Severn between Gloucester and stourport for years dining on all the course fish

[jiggy 3,209]

 

 

 

If they don't fly away then they don't fly back. Seen them 60 mile inland but not common. Seen an interesting program before with some foreign lads with fully trained ones diving off the boat and bringing back big fish for small treat. Anybody able to put up a link it's probably on utube

We had them at fisheries in Cheshire which is 40km from the sea

The lads into fishing would ask the lads duck shooting the rivers to blast them if they seen them but they were very clever birds and new the range of a shotgun I don't remember anyone ever shooting one except one idiot who claimed he shot one flying in the air freehand at 300 yards with a .22 (he was good at bullsh1t stories) but they are certainly more popular on the bigger lakes within 20 miles of the sea. Would they be any worse than an otter.

many years ago there was a story in the anglers mail and on the front cover was a picture of a guy who looked like a terrorist fully camo,d up with a balaclava on and a handful of dead cormorants that he had shot, I new the guy in the picture he was a well known carp angler and fish farmer,his normal technique was to sit on an island in the middle of the lake and just shoot them coming into roost with an air rifle, he had shot so many that nearly every carp angler in his area had a cormorant beak handle on there baiting needle, unfortunately the overfishing of the sea is driving anything that lives there further inland in the search for food, there is a seal that's been living in the Severn between Gloucester and stourport for years dining on all the course fish

was the seal polish or Eastern European they have the canals empty around here of coarse fish ?