Commercial Fisherman Busted

[price]

Our good friends that "help" our lakes and rivers were busted not following the rules. Can anyone believe that they wouldn't follow the rules? I want to thank the TWRA officers for busting these guys and now lets catch them taking catfish illegally. Here is the link.

http://www.state.tn.us/twra/news/paddlefish.html

 

[Guest]

Gawd I hate cheaters.

 

[H-1]

GOOD JOB!

 

[basser#9]

seems to small of a fine for me. emoScratch emoEvil emoProtest emoBadLanguage emoTskTsk

 

[Buoy-Master]

basser#9 - 1/30/2008 9:44 PM seems to small of a fine for me. emoScratch emoEvil emoProtest emoBadLanguage emoTskTsk

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Agreed! I guess to some thats a good hit but yea, I think it should have been steeper than that.</p>

I'm just happy to see they got busted! Great job TWRA!</p>

 

[Nickajack Angler]

I hope they lose thier property. Only serves them right... Surprised they don't take their driving license too! It sure justifies a much more stiff penalty. Isn't it a steeper fine to shoot a deer on private land w/o permission? Or on federal property? Just seems like it is not enough of a deterent. But I'm sure those boys are hurting from this and much deserved.

 

[Fuzzy]

Confiscate the property, no license period (commerical or otherwise), stiffer fines. They new what they were doing or wouldn't have had the "proper" equipment with them!

 

[LOAFIE]

make em eat every caught paddlefish raw! no leftovers!emoVomit

 

[SpurHunter]

The whole things digusts me. No wonder they do this...for every fish they caught them with that day, they probably got away with 10 times that many before getting caught. </p>

They will go right back to doing it because the penalty is so pitiful. Money talks, and bull-hockey walks out of jail, and right back to the river....

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[hoggerhead]

emoApplause emoApplause emoApplause emoApplause

 

[Guest]

Man, thats somethin else i tell ya! Those ol' boys will get whats coming to them.emoAngry emoScratch

 

[honkytonker26]

How do you catch 9 Paddlefish? Don't they just eat plankton?

 

[Guest]

honkytonker26 - 3/7/2008 9:19 PM

How do you catch 9 Paddlefish? Don't they just eat plankton?

They use gillnets. I have watched netters throw back dead paddlefish one time while I was fishing up at the nuke back in Dec. Those nets don't discriminate on what they catch and kill.

 

[Guest]

or they could have been using grappling hooks to snag them.