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boiliestop
14-02-2008, 11:55
hi just wondered if anybody saw the picture in the anglers mail of the cormorant taking a double figure pike and your thoughts on this
Taz36
14-02-2008, 15:18
Gotta be a fabrication surely. Although I haven't seen the article.

How could a swimming bird with a 4" beak & no talons, attack, kill & then swallow a fish of over 10lb in weight, that would probably be 24" - 30" long.

How would it manage to fly away afterwards, surely the laws of physics & gravity define that this is an impossibility!!!!!

Jeez, I think a Sea Eagle would have it's handsful with a lively fish of 10lb PLUS !!!!!!!!!
shadrapper
14-02-2008, 15:50
if this is the same story as was in the sun then it wasnt a double figure pike. if it was then that was one ****in abnormally massive cormorant!!!

they have been known to try and take a trout at 7lb on my local stockie pond though.
boiliestop
14-02-2008, 16:11
ok could be the same story customer showed me it at a glance i would have said double [not much of a piker ] still shocking pics though if true
shadrapper
14-02-2008, 16:21
six pun at the most and i am a dyed in the wool piker
boiliestop
14-02-2008, 16:57
i got to find a copy to have another look apparently it was captured by a birdwatcher who took a set of it devouring the pike
cfish
14-02-2008, 17:47
I saw a pic of a cormarent?black devilbird eating a 2lb jack pike! if thats the photo your refering to?
boiliestop
14-02-2008, 17:55
new goggles it is then
cfish
14-02-2008, 18:05
new goggles it is then

I might of been looking at a different pic mind? Should put them on the general species list if you ask me cos currently you have to get a licence to shoot about 6 of them per year!
boiliestop
14-02-2008, 18:21
mm yeah just been looking at the ad on front page i can get my lenses made up into sunglasses & look cool too
SuperBassMaster
15-02-2008, 18:14
shoot em all i say........... the cormorants i mean
Taz36
15-02-2008, 23:47
shoot em all i say........... the cormorants i mean



Bang on!!! :boxing::boxing::boxing::boxing:
benhben
19-02-2008, 18:39
I saw 1st hand a cormorant dive and come up with a jack pike and swallow it whole. It then sat on a pier for about 2 hours unable to move.

Double figure no chance.