Jug Fishermen! Pick Up Your Jugs!!!

[rbmurray210]

JPP looked like a landfill this past weekend with all the jugs floating!!!

[bd-]

Originally Posted by thehick176

If your gonna take the time to cut the bird loose, wouldn't you try and free the line from the bird so it could survive? Most normal people would!

I suppose someone might have cut the bird loose, and then they couldn't control it and it got away from them. Who knows.

I have freed a blue heron from a limbline before. It is tougher than you think. If you ever try it, give them a life jacket or something to bite on until you can get their head under control. They can do some damage with that big beak.

Your post does bring up a good point. Limblines are another thing that bother me - people put a hundred lines out, and then they just abandon them when they're done fishing. I hate when people don't clean up after themselves.

bd

[Jdkxtreme]

Originally Posted by bd-

I suppose someone might have cut the bird loose, and then they couldn't control it and it got away from them. Who knows.

I have freed a blue heron from a limbline before. It is tougher than you think. If you ever try it, give them a life jacket or something to bite on until you can get their head under control. They can do some damage with that big beak.

Your post does bring up a good point. Limblines are another thing that bother me - people put a hundred lines out, and then they just abandon them when they're done fishing. I hate when people don't clean up after themselves.

bd

I was at a little place at Bledsoe creek yesterday and saw several limb lines. I went to all that I saw and they were all either cut or rotted off

[nomad60]

Looks like it's the same everywhere you go. Back in Korea I used to complain because there, they allow netting; there were gill nets strung out every few feet which made boating hazardous with the nets and the ropes strung everywhere. And at least half the nets were unattended, rotting away and sinking under the surface so that they would catch your prop or lures.

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The nets were set out to catch anything that swam (but mainly carp), and the sad part was that a lot of the time, the netters wouldn't come and check their nets which led to so many fish dying. And the ones that did check their nets on a daily basis, they would keep anything they caught, regardless of size. Made me wonder how the bass ever survived.

[agelesssone]

Nomad, you can see almost the same thing below most of our dams today.

Castnetters keeping any fish that gets caught in their nets regardless of size or species.

Game fish are supposed to be released if caught by casting a net but you'll see many persons of non caucasian persuasion doing this, putting every fish in buckets and/or scurrying off to their cars to hide the illegal catch and then doing it again.

You can call the TWRA office, but rarely do they respond. They have more important thing to do, and not enough manpower to effectively cover their territory.

[nofish]

Originally Posted by agelesssone

Nomad, you can see almost the same thing below most of our dams today.

Castnetters keeping any fish that gets caught in their nets regardless of size or species.

Game fish are supposed to be released if caught by casting a net but you'll see many persons of non caucasian persuasion doing this, putting every fish in buckets and/or scurrying off to their cars to hide the illegal catch and then doing it again.

You can call the TWRA office, but rarely do they respond. They have more important thing to do, and not enough manpower to effectively cover tresponded heir territory.

I've been below oh dam many many times on land and by boat and I've never seen twra there. They would sure make some money on tickets down there.

[bd-]

TWRA makes extremely little money off tickets. Most of the fine goes to court costs or the county.

bd

[nomad60]

Originally Posted by agelesssone

Nomad, you can see almost the same thing below most of our dams today.

Castnetters keeping any fish that gets caught in their nets regardless of size or species.

Game fish are supposed to be released if caught by casting a net but you'll see many persons of non caucasian persuasion doing this, putting every fish in buckets and/or scurrying off to their cars to hide the illegal catch and then doing it again.

You can call the TWRA office, but rarely do they respond. They have more important thing to do, and not enough manpower to effectively cover their territory.

That's a shame. And no one says anything to them? Time to whip out that cellphone and start taking pics or videos, right in their face

My fishing partner christened my inflatable "SS Netcutter" because if we found any nets submerged/partially submerged, or if they looked like they had been left unattended for a while, out came the filet knife. We'd cut the main ropes, and then cut the net up enough so that we could drag as much of it back to shore as possible. Lost some fishing time doing that and I know we didn't even make a small dent in the numbers out there but it sure felt good.