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Show BY BOB BREWSTER jU Outdoor Editor, Some of the best fishermen in the world wear wings. They are large, tethered birds whose angling ancestry dates back 1300 years. Cormorants, Cor-morants, tied to a long cord, are still used to fish rivers and lakes in some parts of the Orient. A metal ring fastened fas-tened around the bird's neck keeps it from swallowing the catch. A cormorant may fetch its owner 100 to 150 fish per hour; a good catch ratio, anywhere. any-where. Actually, birds of all kinds are important to fishermen, say the angling authorities at Mercury outboards. For birds are helpful in finding fish, and in some instances are beneficial benefi-cial in reducing undesirable species of fish. Not everyone can have a trained cormorant to do his fishing, but the role birds play in aiding salt-water anglers is well known. A flock of diving, wheeling gulls is often better than some of the new electronic elec-tronic equipment when it comes to locating schools of fish offshore and inshore. |