The area where we dropped the hook stays reasonably deep up to about 30 feet from shore. We anchored in about 10 feet about 200 feet off shore at the base of very well wooded steep embankments (cliffs?). The Great Blue Herons, the buzzards and the Bald Eagles and the Ospreys all hunted along this shore. When one of them scored a fish all of the others were quick to offer to share. This I observed, a Great Blue Heron will make a Buzzard back off with a single peck but nobody challenges the eagles. The Buzzards will hang around for the scraps but if the Heron is there, they wait until the Heron has lost interest. There was a local fisherman ( commercial) that had fish traps set along the shore. I saw him the first morning. The traps are nets made with hoops and covered over the outside with netting and fitted with cone shapes in each hoop leading to the next hoop. The bait is set farthest from the entrance so the fish must find its way in through these funnels but to find is way out must find the small hole in the bottom of each funnel. The cormorants actively hunt near the fish traps and I wondered how often the fisherman finds a bird in his nets.