Cormorants regulation is out

[walkinandsittin]

https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/013-41...m=groupmessage

I'm not sure why anyone would bother to go out and take part in this hunt on purpose. It seems that the MNR is not managing Cormorants properly and they've thrown what they think is a bone to the hunting community.

At $1.00 a shell for good quality lead-free shot shells, this is a nice way to download the costs to the public. We still have to pay for the privilege and pay for the shooting and the cleanup. Is anyone out there keen on murdering cormorants other than when you're bored?

[FishHog]

Is anyone out there keen on murdering cormorants other than when you're bored?

Sure am. They way they decimate the fish population I say the more the merrier

[js4fn]

At my pond.

[Snowwalker]

At my pond.

A couple more days....light it's smelly butt up. You got the pond you got the land to bury them..

[js4fn]

Just for kicks I ranged it 56 yd from were I was sitting on my deck.
Don’t like the regs at all should be open season pick them off anyway possible.
That one 22 to the head would of been easy shot

[dean.f]

Tons of them down on the bay. Outnumbered the geese by the look of it.

[Snowwalker]

Just for kicks I ranged it 56 yd from were I was sitting on my deck.
Don’t like the regs at all should be open season pick them off anyway possible.
That one 22 to the head would of been easy shot

High Velocity 38/40 grain copper jacketed hollow point would turn their insides to jello. Zeroed at 50 yards, and holding about 1" below the bottom of the neck......every round in the boiler. How could you fail.

[chomper]

so at Erie au they are hundreds of them sitting on break wall and trees on east side of channel where they roost, marina is on west side. Channel is perhaps fifty meters wide.. camp ground on west side too. closest camper maybe 100 yards from break wall. Any regulations that would prohibit a drift by and shooting to the east where there is nothing but open lake Erie water behind them? It is a safe shot but relatively close to a busy marina and built up area... I'm sure others know of large flocks of cormorants relatively close to busy marinas etc... thinking about it but decided not to do it because of close proximity to a busy area.. but I'm sure someone will try it....and then all those birds will scatter to other areas anyway....

[Deer Wrastler]

so at Erie au they are hundreds of them sitting on break wall and trees on east side of channel where they roost, marina is on west side. Channel is perhaps fifty meters wide.. camp ground on west side too. closest camper maybe 100 yards from break wall. Any regulations that would prohibit a drift by and shooting to the east where there is nothing but open lake Erie water behind them? It is a safe shot but relatively close to a busy marina and built up area... I'm sure others know of large flocks of cormorants relatively close to busy marinas etc... thinking about it but decided not to do it because of close proximity to a busy area.. but I'm sure someone will try it....and then all those birds will scatter to other areas anyway....

Even if its legal you really think thats going to help hunters cause? Never heard of a dumber idea TBH. That will NOT go over well at all with all the campers and cottagers there. Erieau is a small beautiful slice of heaven in my opinion and doesn't need to be ruined because someone wants to go kill something.

Just because hunters know about and dont like cormorants doesn't mean the rest of the people up there are going to be ok with it. Legal or not thats just stupid.

[js4fn]

Just remember even if out on Lake Erie see a bluff with Comorants in trees someone might live up there I for one will be shooting back..