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    #16
    Originally posted by DRT View Post
    Why do people ask questions like this on an open forum? Isn't SSS common sense?
    Just wondering if there is legal means.....

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      #17
      Thats pretty interesting!

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        #18
        You “could” have done something…..if you wouldn’t have run to the internet

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          #19
          I remember several years back some fella got strung up for wiping out a tree full on Rayburn.

          I can only imagine they either have awesome swimming skills or are less buoyant than ducks.
          Honest question- y'all recon they sink or float once their heartrate goes to zero bpm?

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            #20
            Originally posted by DaveC View Post
            I remember several years back some fella got strung up for wiping out a tree full on Rayburn.

            I can only imagine they either have awesome swimming skills or are less buoyant than ducks.
            Honest question- y'all recon they sink or float once their heartrate goes to zero bpm?

            A friend told me they float


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              #21
              Sss

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                #22
                Not sure size of tank but if you can string a bunch of lines across the top they cant land on it. We had a small tank about 1/2 acre and it what we had to do. T posts and run 100# braided fishing string is what i think we used

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                  #23
                  Air directly to their brain. I won’t ask any questions.

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                      #25
                      Originally posted by Passthrough View Post
                      You “could” have done something…..if you wouldn’t have run to the internet

                      Thanks for the advice!


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                        #26
                        I’ve caught fish that had holes in em from those bastiges! They will clean a tank out.

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                          #27
                          it is my understanding you can get a permit from TP&W or they come out to see if its a issue. I'm not certain 100%, but I was told that under certain conditions you can get a permit. Ask TP&W

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                            #28
                            I was told a water turkey can eat up to 50 fish per day in a pond, they eat the regurgitate then eat more. I blast them

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                              #29
                              Originally posted by Royal21973 View Post
                              it is my understanding you can get a permit from TP&W or they come out to see if its a issue. I'm not certain 100%, but I was told that under certain conditions you can get a permit. Ask TP&W
                              You can get a depredation permit if they are over populated !
                              But you literally have to have like a 1,000.
                              Most fun I ever had was managing a 1,300 ac. Wetland. We had a permit and I bet we killed over 6-700 of them one season.
                              They don’t flare and fall like geese with a sand hill beak.
                              Could literally kill 50-100 per day,

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                                #30
                                Cormorants are NOT Water Turkeys... The Anhinga is a water turkey. Both are diving fishing birds, but an Anhinga is not a flock bird. The Cormorants are flock birds and can destroy a fishery... Small ponds can be protected by netting pretty easily. I've caught cormorants on trot lines using live perch for bait on hooks in 20+ feet of water!

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