Thread: Cormorants Killing Trees at Reelfoot

Maybe they are carrying in the mercury and dumping it behind the pumphouse.

We have them up this way along with the white pelicans. I have buddies who swear the fishing success has dropped noticeably as the population of cormorants has increased. Some of the wooded islands on Barkley are barren now except for the ankle deep white droppings under the dead trees.

There are more cormorants up around New Johnsonville than ever in my lifetime. They took over a big island last fall and I thought it would kill every tree but they came back out this spring. If it becomes repetitive, they will kill the trees. I've seen it happen on islands above Blood River.

We were fishing below Watts Bar dam last week, and there must have been 500-600 cormorants in a huge flock come sailing in and immediately started chowing down on the baitfish. I hate these birds. There ought to be an open season on them.

I saw the same thing below Watts Bar Dam, too, and I can also tell you they are up in the lake around Caney Creek. They need to be thinned out, big time. I hope the TWRA doesn't wait until it is too late before they address the situation.

it seems to me they are also becoming a nuisance on Lake Conway in Arkansas!

THEY are killing just about every island on Watts Bar right now. The islands STINK from all the poop.. It's awful!! Something needs to be done NOW and not later.

You didnt used to see them in Indiana, but we have lots also on Patoka where there is still standing dead timber in a few of the bay's. Where there is timber, tons of birds roosting and feeding. We have them up here.