cormorants

boiliestop · 14-02-2008, 10:55

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, 14:18

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, 14:50

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, 15:11

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, 15:21

six pun at the most and i am a dyed in the wool piker

boiliestop · 14-02-2008, 15:57

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, 16:47

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, 16:55

new goggles it is then

**cfish** · 14-02-2008, 17:05

Originally Posted by boiliestop

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!