Holy crap watch this!

[HawkeyeSmallie]

My jaw was on the floor the whole video. That’s a decent bass!!!
 

 

[papajoe222]

WOW!

I didn't know they could swallow something that big.

[fin]

I can't say I'm real surprised it got it down, but I am surprised how lame that bass is. Why is it not fighting? Did the cormorant spear it or ram it or what? It looks like it's worn out.

 

I'd like to think this is the exception, not the rule, to their diet. I've always assumed they feed mainly on schools of shad. I've seen them working in a group, herding shad. Gizzard shad get as big as that bass, and bigger.

[scaleface]

I saw a great Blue heron wolf down  a decent sized bass, easily.

[Swamp Girl]

I had no idea. 

[Tennessee Boy]

They should implement a slot limit to prevent this. 😆

[J Francho]

Looks like a two pounder. Good for it. Herons can eat even bigger fish. Koi almost 30" can disappear from ponds. 

[looking45]

Fish and Game plants rai is trout I. Some of the lakes in California. When they do, the cormorants are there, eating a lot of them. Most

oeoole hate the cormorants but there’s not much that can be done as they are protected 

[DaubsNU1]

Cormorants can wipe out a fish population quick.

[J Francho]

As far as I can tell, they really only wreck the trees with their poop. Their roosting spots smell really bad too. Otherwise, fishing seems fine where I fish. I can see a flock devastating a pond or small isolated lake though. The problem with that is they don't seem so transient. It would make more sense for them to hang around a sustainable fishery. They aren't invasive, so they've been where ever for thousands of years. I'd say they probably aren't the main cause of a declining fishery. I'd be more concerned if they disappeared. 

[Glenn]

Cormorants are a huge threat to fisheries and can destroy an entire ecosystem.  They're so devastating that the feds have implemented limited lethal and non-lethal methods to help control them.  I hope they remove the "protected" status since they're now at historic population levels.  They're actually over-populated in some areas now.

 

More info:

https://www.bassresource.com/fish_biology/cormorant-predation.html

https://www.bassresource.com/fish_biology/cormorant.html

[Gera]

That lazy bass deserved to be eaten..  

[A-Jay]

Looks like me gaging down a pizza pie.

Extra cheese and Italian sausage is my jam.

Just hope neither of us poop on your pool deck.

That is all.

A-Jay 

[DaubsNU1]

@A-Jay...Italian sausage!   👍👍

[gim]

42 minutes ago, Glenn said:

Cormorants are a huge threat to fisheries and can destroy an entire ecosystem.

I can recall the feds trimming their population on Leech Lake years ago.  They used sharpshooters and picked em off, one at a time.

 

They are nasty, greasy birds.

[Zcoker]

Happens all the time down here in Florida with Pelicans. Watch those pets! 

 

                                       

[TnRiver46]

The bird used forward facing sonar, the horror!!!! They must limit the birds transducers immediately . You can’t use a corked bat in baseball after all! 

[flatcreek]

Every time  I see these flocks of terrorists flying in our creeks and camping out and feasting on our bass it makes me sick.I’ve seen the damage they do and know it’s a fact.I dream of my old M-60 back in my hands if only for just a little while…

[Phelptwan]

That bird is much better at holding onto that bass than I am, and I have thumbs.

[GRiver]

Thanks for sharing @HawkeyeSmallie

[ironbjorn]

If you're that big of a fish and the bird is struggling to eat you and is dropping you back into the water and you still lack all desire to swim down and escape, you deserve to be eaten.