What about the ones who don't get caught?

[Mitch f]

http://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/2017/05/28/two-clarksville-men-charged-houston-county-having-30-fish-over-legal-limit/352435001/

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

The real sad thing is after they are caught the fish get wasted by the authorities 

[Quillback]

Poaching is a bad thing, but you have to laugh:

The landowner told responding sheriff’s deputies, that when he confronted the two men, they “mooned” him and tipped over a portable toilet.

[Mitch f]

7 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Poaching is a bad thing, but you have to laugh:

The landowner told responding sheriff’s deputies, that when he confronted the two men, they “mooned” him and tipped over a portable toilet.

LOL, I saw that!😂

[Chief Grey Bear]

This is just one of many examples of why I  say rod and reel fishermen both legal and poachers due far more damage than giggers. I'd lay good money that 99% of the poachers go unnoticed. 

[fishinwrench]

The fish look 1/2 rotten, who would even want to eat them?  Especially after those two Homie's got done butchering them.  I wouldn't trust a hotdog cooked by either of those dildos.

[fishinwrench]

23 minutes ago, Chief Grey Bear said:

This is just one of many examples of why I  say rod and reel fishermen both legal and poachers due far more damage than giggers. I'd lay good money that 99% of the poachers go unnoticed. 

Yeah, and if you're gonna poach you'd be smart to do it by gigging since 99.9% get away with it easily.

If just 10% of outlaw giggers got caught I think you'd feel differently.  Is it possible that the reason you deny their impact is because you never hear of any of them getting caught?  I promise you that they do indeed exist. 

[MoCarp]

 I can tell you WAY more in fact get poached, any means that make it easy to quickly harvest lots of fish poundage is ripe for harvest...from bow fished game fish sold in KC fish shops to gill nets in the fall for spoonbill, its why some waters seem dead...because hey are.....even if people stay in limits, if they take those limits every few days, places get fished down..its why I don't share fishing spots with just anyone any more ....even for carp..

nothing is more disheartening than to chum up an easy access bank on Stockton Lake for two weeks and invite people to fish with kids. Only to have no -one catch a fish. and hear from the guy selling snacks at the marina, that several bow fishing boats pounded the area...we found some fish with arrow holes tossed on the bank to send those carp huggers a message  Even had a couple guys walleye fishing found a floater walleye that had been arrowed caught one that was wounded from a near miss half alive on the surface, both fish over 4 pounds...they turned it into the game warden. A walleye is easy to see at night their eyes glow like reflectors on a country driveway at night...

I HAD a spot that averaged carp in the teens, bow fishing group took out a full dumpster, now you can catch twice the fish just none over 3-5 pounds... drinks by carp standards.

I have zero tolerance for game hogs ZERO...

[Chief Grey Bear]

Not saying they don't. 

There are far more fish taken legally and illegally by rod and reels than there are at the end of a stick. But you keep on with the east side.

Many thousand of miles of fishable water that ain't giggable. 

[Al Agnew]

Geez, Chief, nobody is arguing against what you said.  The ENTIRE problem with gigging is the selective targeting of the biggest fish, something no rod and reel angler, poacher or legal, can do.  It's the same thing some people at MDC keep saying, that they see no evidence that illegal gigging is harming the population of stream bass.  Nope, it's NOT.  But it is reducing the population of the biggest fish.  That's our only problem with gigging, but it's a doozy.