Cormorants - Texas Fishing Forum I swear the cormorants start showing up a couple of days before the stocking truck arrives and it takes those roaches about 3 or 4 days to catch whatever they stocked They swim in packs and dive down and even fight over the fish they catch I rarely see any actually being caught by fishermen after a few days, they are pretty much cleaned out
Cormorants - Texas Fishing Forum It's not only lakes and ponds In my area I'll see groups of 8-10 going up very small creaks and drainages (think ankle to knee deep and 5-10 ft wide) cleaning out every nook and pocket of fish Our neighborhood ponds used to have fish the kids could catch Now very few are left after the cormorants started showing every winter up a few years back
Cormorants - Good or bad? - Texas Fishing Forum Cormorants are protected by state and federal laws, be careful hazing them I would expect that cormorants are doing well on population numbers, there are more assessable feeding locations than in the past We have impounded more waterways and created more standing water that allows there feeding style than was in historical records
Pelicans - Michigan Sportsman Forum "Pelicans prefer to forage in shallow water (1 to 9 8 feet) in open areas of marshes, lakes, rivers, ponds, but are also known to forage in deeper water to take advantage of prey driven to shallower depths by diving birds such as cormorants Pelicans are tip-up foragers; they do not submerge or dive
Tawas Browns | Michigan Sportsman Forum Cormorants flying into Lake Michigan waters off Mason County won t find a Welcome mat this year If Consumers Energy agrees to it, federal wildlife technicians will shoot about 200 adult birds and oil the eggs on a double-crested cormorant colony of almost 500 nests at a breakwall offshore from the Consumers Pumped Storage Plant this spring
Lake Grapevine 2025 - Texas Fishing Forum The Cormorants are migrating north and there are thousands of them on Grapevine that day The Cormorants were working bait in groups of about 5 birds, pushing the bait upwards This was allowing the seagulls to take part of the action, but to someone looking for sandbass it would look like schooling action
Milakokia Lake - Michigan Sportsman Forum Cormorants are a real problem in the UP and we did see some the last time they were there DNR spent years stocking the lake with walleye to knock down the pike population (It used to be called pike lake) but I think the pike are still winning the survival of the fittest It gets windy and wavy Not much cover Big round bowl of a lake Good luck
Frankfort 2025 | Page 2 | Michigan Sportsman Forum Fry coming down out of the river last couple of days - hundreds of cormorants on them Evans Reactions: Erik , salmon_slayer06 , Far Beyond Driven and 2 others
Browns stocked in PM lake | Michigan Sportsman Forum The fish are stocked in the shadow of the 410-foot carferry to give them a chance to escape predatory cormorants and seagulls while they wait for the effects of the light sedation they are given before being loaded in stocking trucks to wear off