NewsLeader - Elk Poaching

[Chief Grey Bear]

Please. Tear up. You under estimate me my friend. I achieved professional status as a youth. Multiple World Championships!

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Let the sob rot in jail... Take his house and put his family on the street. Just pisses me off.

[MOPanfisher]

First find him/them then worry about how to make his/their life miserable.

[dennishoddy]

5 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

.   Meanwhile ACTUAL THOUSANDS line the banks dead after snagging season, legally.      

 

Your saying thousands of paddlefish die after being snagged? Seriously?

As far as the report from the OP on the Elk, I spend thousands of $ every year chasing elk around the mountains of New Mexico. Its disgusting to see some low life kills one for its rack. If they had left the rack and REALLY needed the meat, its still not legal, but would have at least made some sense.

[fishinwrench]

2 minutes ago, dennishoddy said:

Your saying thousands of paddlefish die after being snagged? Seriously?

Honestly I've never counted them, but yeah sublegal Spoonbill floating dead and along the banks from white branch to Porter Mill bend on LO is typical every year.  Turtle food, and we are gonna ruin a guys life over it ?    Whatever.  Some shock time and a 5k fine would have been appropriate, but treating the dude like he just raped a school bus load full of children and killed the driver?   No I can't get behind that.  

[Chief Grey Bear]

Odd how all those gigged bass survive but snag a bill and its a supposed death sentence.

[fishinwrench]

Snag a Spoonbill, drag it in the boat, stomp on it with a size 12 work boot, rip the hooks out with a pair of 1.99 pliers, kick it back in the lake.   

Really odd that it dies, says Chief 

 

For every scarred bass we see I'd say there is 5-6 that didn't make it.   Pretty safe assumption don't ya think?  

[Chief Grey Bear]

I don't know who you ever snagged with, or even watched while being out there during the snagging season, but I have never in my life seen anybody do any of the absurdity that you are saying happens to every spoonbill.

I understand trying to make a point but this is beyond ridiculous.

 

[fishinwrench]

Dude, I freakin' live here, I work on those guys boats, I know how they roll.  And most importantly I see and smell all the dead spoonbill.   So regardless of what causes them to get killed the fact is they do.   Tons of them are wasted, mostly due to the regulations and the methods used to catch them.

I could personally care less because Spoonbill aren't a fish that I care anything about, but to spend millions keeping them here and assigning outrageous punishments for infractions regarding them..... then set regulations that invariably result in a shitload of them being killed is freakin' ignorant.   

Then we just slap the palms of guys that unlawfully harm smallmouth populations (that aren't receiving millions of dollars of protection) and send them back to their happy lives.  

Go ahead and keep arguing, Chief, you might change somebody's mind but it won't be mine. 

[Flysmallie]

Wow this is a good time. I just imagine one of you being on the swings and the other on the jungle gym while having this conversation. Very fitting.