River Axe and the cormorant menace

[billyfish]

I travelled up to the City yesterday .I really enjoy the train ride but yesterday it was spoilt,to a great extent,by the sight of a large number of cormorants .They were either fishing the pools in two's and three's or on the bank drying their wings.
It was not very encouraging with the start of the season just around the corner.
Colin.

[Pete Tyjas]

Hi Billyfish,

I have noticed what seems to be more of the black death than normal. There is a chalkstream I grayling fish where the population seems to have grown. I have caught a lot of cormorant marked fish this winter.

[flyboxfan]

When I started fishing the Exe I never saw a cormorant or merganser - now you see them regularly.