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Campground is not open yet, but signs of activity. Good news is that there were only 4 cormorant to be found on the lake. Bad news is that I only graphed a little more than a couple dozen fish in about 6 hrs on the water, absolutely no bites. When I do my fish counting, my electronics puts up a grid sector on the screen and I count the number of hits as I move through each sector. Normally I will get at least 10 pings per sector, way more when there is structure or pockets holding fish, I can adjust the electronics to ignore or include certain size. What this tells me is that my initial gut reaction to the massive invasion of the cormorants that came in December and only recently left have devestated this lake. I believe the only good thing to come from this natural disaster is that Leland will become once again a premier bass lake. I am sure a few smart Crappie have survived but it will take a couple years before we see signs of their presence. What erks me the most is I alerted WDFW about this and they did not so much as call me back, lesson learned! I now have a brand new crossbow and cormorant sized targets for practice...