gannets

[goosefish]

I've been seeing them, but today is the first day I've see them plunge diving. Close in too---time for me to shake the laziness and get out and go fishing. See you guys out there.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Saw a S Load offshore Sun blackfishing... they should be moving in with that hard SW wind.... save me some fish, I'll be back Thursday

[In The Surf]

Saw them cruising the shoreline and diving in SoCo yesterday morning.

[kippy]

I saw some this morning as well..it has begun..

[Nebe]

ahh the gannets.... a sure sign that the fat lady is about to sing

[doc]

i hope things hold out a bit as i feel another dental appointment coming on and was hoping for the last of the season next week...any reports from the aquidneck area? not encourage spot burning as i know that is pretty frowned upon on this site...but any vague reports would be most appreciated....thanks...

[quick decision]

Just curious.

[Nebe]

a gannett is an artic sea bird that stays up north, but as fall starts to turn colder, they start showing up around the striper coast..

I'm already seeing Loons, and Brants... a sure sign of the end of the season

[quick decision]

thnx eben

[doc]

they also put on quite a show - diving from 50 feet...beautiful birds...

[Rob Rockcrawler]

the ditch was loaded with loons last week, i must have seen 50 of em, and a few seals for good measure.

[goosefish]

loons are cool; but cormorants I think we should cull down. There are way too many of these birds and in the fall hundreds of them come into the estuaries and bays and feed, which they do expertly. If there is one coastal bird that has become a problem I think that this is the one. Time to bring in the good ol' boys.

[Nebe]

Now correct me if i'm wrong, but Cormerants arent even indegenous to new england.. I hate them.. The Crested Mergansers that show up in the winter are another story... at least they look cool

[cheferson]

COrmants have led me to many a pod of nice bass before though

[Nebe]

yes but think about how many HUNDREDS OF TONS of baitfish that the population eats every year-

[beamie]

Gannets are truely impressive. Run into them offshore cod fishing from time to time on Stellwagon and east. After thier dive from at least 50 feet up it looks like they can get about 15 feet under water to get the small cod that are thrown back. Really unbelievable when you see them at work.

[RIROCKHOUND]

E,
Commorants are not native, and they are lethal hunters for small fish; some bleieve they helped to decrease the winter flounder pop by eating the young in the spring.....

[piemma]

Gannets use to indicate that the Blueback herring were coming by. of course the Russian factory ships killed all of them.

[Water Treater]

Lots of diving gannets on Ballston Beach in Truro on Monday afternoon, Nov. 1st, along with terns and gulls. The whole lot was moving south at a brisk clip. (Headed for Rhode Island?) Wind was blowing at 20 knots from the north that day and increased to 25 knots when the sun went down. I was blown off the beach by 6:30 P.M.

Gannets generally feed on large bait fish, especially herring and squid but that day I caught only schoolies on Red Gill teasers. No strikes on my plugs. I wondered if the schoolies were feeding on sand eels while the gannets were feeding on a larger baitfish. Do you think this was the case?

["uffah!!"]

Is this what you guy's are talking about?