cormorant in my swim yesterday

[fishster]

Started fishing in my local club water yesterday and after about an hour a cormorant started to feed in my swim clapped my hands and scared it but it just swam down the pool to the other end and then when i started getting bites it came back and proceeded to eat fish large ones at that .it was there all day i tried everything to scare it off without succes didn,t catch all day neither did anyone else.I have informed a commitee member and he is going to yes shoot it as it just wont f*** off.Well Peed off.

[fish farmer]

You not got a catapult mate?

[dubman1972]

i had one in my peg down whiteacres about 5 years ago, was fishing the match and pegged on acorn lots of us on there and the thing just kept swimming round the island eating fish, i even hit it with my pole a couple of times. as it went under the water by the island swim i was fishing you could see the fish scatter a total waste of 5 hours.

[fishster]

Ye i have catty wot would i do fire pellets at it so it could eat more fish attracted by pellets.L.O.L

[fishster]

I,m afraid only thing to do with them is yes im going to say it again shoot them

[justin case]

The answer is to stop eating fish and chips

Sadly its now a big problem its not going to go away untill such time the law is changed, as a fishery owner it is unrealistic to only be able to shoot a handfull a year,

[fishster]

cheers justin i know alot of you are going to say it,s cruel to sh0ot it but no other choice i,m afraid at least it,s only one and not more.

[Jon W]

I had a grebe in my peg last weekend, he was merrily going down every so often, spooking the feeding fish and somtimes comming up with a small roach or blade skimmer.

There I was, fishing away and the float positivley went under, definatley not a line bite (I was fishing paste) and lifted into what I thought was a fish. the 'fish' kited round to the left and a few seconds later up popped this f**king grebe, hooked squarley in its left leg!

It was no match for balck hydro on a pulla (!) and i managed to net him, bit my lip (they are scary looking b'stards up close, their beak looks dead sharp!), grabed the bird and unhooked it. it pecked at me a few times but as it was raining i had me jacket on and neoprene gloves so I took it like a man. I asked the chap next do if they count? He said no. I wasn't too disappointed as it did feel hollow so doubt it would have weighted much

The good thing was, he didn't bother me for the rest of the session.

[Jon W]

Funnily enough, the club I'm in is called Grebe Angling Club!

[aimee32.carpcatcher]

what u need for that is rock hard boilies and a catapolt lol a guy at chestnut pool fishery in langford was firering boilies at a rat and killed it our right it was so funy u gota do it anywyas hope this helps

[creepy]

only one way to get rid of a cormorant......blow its bloody head off.

[fishster]

Right mate

[taz]

kill em

[lakeman]

cormorants

I find a 12bore with steel/load dos the trick

[danny1234]

y dont you just net and dump it some were else at a pool which ay got fish in like a puddle lol