skeeter Posted March 3 Posted March 3 Watched a flock of 50-75 Cormorants hit numerous schools of what I hope were only Shad out in front of Baxter yesterday. Hope they are just passing through. Looked like one of those feeding frenzies you see videos of the Sea Birds doing when they find a bait ball in the Oceans. Â
jdmidwest Posted March 4 Posted March 4 They are pretty "residential" down on the TN Rivers I fish. They were stacked 2 each on every light pole along the locks with Black Headed Buzzards on the railing. I did notice they have a way to projectile crap when they let loose. Make sure you don't spend any time around them. That is foul stuff. There are several rookeries where they roost in trees along the river below the dam. The smell overpowers the one that come out of the paper mill. cheesemaster 1 "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
Quillback Posted March 4 Posted March 4 Last winter when I was fishing with Dutch down the James channel a ways there were hundreds of cormorants in one area.  cheesemaster 1
skeeter Posted March 5 Author Posted March 5 On 3/4/2026 at 5:36 AM, Quillback said: Last winter when I was fishing with Dutch down the James channel a ways there were hundreds of cormorants in one area.  I recall reading somewhere they had to be thinned out on one of the Great Lakes due to their impacts on the fishery. Hope they don't take up residence here.  Quillback 1
tjm Posted March 6 Posted March 6 19 hours ago, skeeter said: I recall reading somewhere they had to be thinned out on one of the Great Lakes due to their impacts on the fishery. Hope they don't take up residence here.  Should only be winter and migration in our area, breeding farther north. Crazy birds nest in colonies and fly up to 40 miles to fish, then find a place in the sun to rest. Sounds kinda like some of us. Johnsfolly, skeeter and BilletHead 1 2
Quillback Posted March 6 Posted March 6 LOL, yeah I have been known to travel 40 miles to fish. Johnsfolly and BilletHead 2
BilletHead Posted March 6 Posted March 6 41 minutes ago, Quillback said: LOL, yeah I have been known to travel 40 miles to fish.     I can just imagine my breeding, migration nonbreeding and year-round areas. Now that would be an interesting BilletHeads map. 😆 Foghorn and Quillback 2 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo   If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh   " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh      "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead   " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead  P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
jdmidwest Posted March 6 Posted March 6 They are year round residents in TN. But it shows no breeding. Do they just retire there after raising a few younguns? Or, do they take turns flying back to an orange state for a quickie? "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
Champ188 Posted March 17 Posted March 17 Saw lots of terns diving on shad between Big M and Big Creek the other day. No cormorants in that area. Hey Quillback, please find us some new holes up there. The ones you have now are fished out and that GPS tracker I hid in your boat wasn't cheap. Dewayne French 1
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