They are real effcient predators and are protected. They have done real well with protected statis. I see lots of them here and Arkansas River . We have caught them in real deep water in gill nets when we gill netted Buffalo and Catfish.
Not been on much lately cause all last week we was either fishing or running lines. Catfish weren't doing much on Gillham lake and the rain put the lake up shutting the crappie down. I heard today was the 1st day they bite again, buddy caught 15 or 20 big ones this evening, too bad i'm in Atlanta headed to a job now. We did manage to have a decent fish fry yesterday evening before I left. I did have a question for you guys though. We seem to have a bunch of those water turkeys on the lake and found a cove where they was at just full of 8-10" suckers and bait fish dead floating. Do those darn protected birds kill that many fish or what??? My vote is we exterminate them on my home lake! We even caught one on a trotline that had a bait in its mouth.
They are real effcient predators and are protected. They have done real well with protected statis. I see lots of them here and Arkansas River . We have caught them in real deep water in gill nets when we gill netted Buffalo and Catfish.
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I have come across a lake where some guys were alloweded to kill them ? yep , just east of little rock a couple of years ago. i guess you need to aquire a depreadition (sp) permit of some sort ? dont know , but these guys were killing the he#@ out of them.......i asked them about it and they told me they had a permit? must have killed many o dozen if each shot counted...........prolly fired for 2-3 hours nonstop.
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If you haven't seen cormorants making a drive, telling about it will sound like a big lie. From a distance it resembles a huge striper boil. Hundreds of them congregate and push fish into a cove...They are terribly efficient. I've seen it on Atkins and Ouachita.
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