http://dnr.sc.gov/news/yr2013/dec12/dec12_cormorant.html
Link for updated training sessions. Lets kill em all.
'06 Mckee Craft
184 Marathon
DF140 Suzuki
CORMORANT CLASS TOMORROW NIGHT! see yall there! Come see me and lets get a hunting party together -
Matt
I missed the local training sessions and can’t go to Manning, but will make the one they are holding Feb 7th. If anyone wants to team up and eradicate, I have a house on Moultrie and can either use my 19ft CC or my 14ft Fastcraft… I sure hope we have a lot of participation, we need to remove any competition from the catfish population we can and help get those numbers back up!!
A bad day fishing is much better than a good day at work.
If i didn’t participate in the class could I hunt with someone who did?
14’ Skiff-“Redfish Reaper”
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Originally posted by yakman72If i didn’t participate in the class could I hunt with someone who did?
14’ Skiff-“Redfish Reaper”
NO
BOB
The last training session will be held on Saturday, Feb. 8th beginning at 2 p.m. at the Santee Cooper Auditorium in Moncks Corner.
Also, they are changing the rules. Boats will have to be stopped or at idle speed while shooting. They are also going to cut the season in half.
http://www.thestate.com/2014/01/24/3225190/high-interest-in-cormorant-hunting.html
High interest in cormorant hunting prompts shortening of season
By Joey Holleman
COLUMBIA, SC ? Surprised that nearly 800 people signed up for permits to hunt double-crested cormorants on Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie, the Department of Natural Resources plans to tweak planned rules to ensure hunter safety and reduce the number of birds shot.
The two major changes to original plans reduce the hunting period from Feb. 2-March 31 to Feb. 2-March 1 and require boats used in hunting the large-bodied, duck-like black birds be stopped or at no-wake, idle speed.
Meanwhile, the Audubon Society, which typically cooperates with the DNR, is adamantly opposed to this first-time effort to reduce the cormorant population. Audubon doesn?t think the effort is necessary and fears it could have an impact not only on the cormorant population but also on similar-looking species such as anhingas, loons and some ducks.
Anglers and fishing guides have complained that growing populations of the cormorants ? some migratory, some year-round residents ? have been eating huge amounts of bait fish and impacting the economically important sport of fishing on the lakes.
Because cormorants aren?t considered a game species, the natural resources agency had to get special permission from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for a volunteer program to cut the number of cormorants on the lakes.
Derrell Shipes, chief of wildlife statewide projects for the agency, said there is little scientific study of the impact of the rise in cormorant populations, but there?s no doubt they eat a lot of small fish. Thousands of the large, long-necked black birds hang out aroun
I didn’t know there was a season for these. I just shoot these things whenever I see them and with what ever gun I have at the time. Pistol, rifle, or shotgun.
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Originally posted by fishlessI didn’t know there was a season for these. I just shoot these things whenever I see them and with what ever gun I have at the time. Pistol, rifle, or shotgun.
No you dont.
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Originally posted by fishlessI didn’t know there was a season for these. I just shoot these things whenever I see them and with what ever gun I have at the time. Pistol, rifle, or shotgun.
You better not get caught, I believe that is a federal crime!!
A bad day fishing is much better than a good day at work.
Will we be able to hunt right after we attend the class or do you have to wait for your permit to come in the mail?
268 Bluewater Key West
Twin 225 Yamahas
you can go hunt after you attend the class. DNR will mail you the permit. If DNR stops you on the water they take down your name, and look up to see if you attending the class or not. I did not have my permit on hand on opening day, and i got stopped by DNR. They said alot of people had not received their permits yet, but it was fine to go as long as you attending the class. They will be able to look up and see if you are a permit holder.