Gigging is great!

[Hog Wally]

The public access was littered with at least 50 gar, drum , carp,suckers and I think it's just a great sport.  I'm sure they only kept the Smallie's, catfish and walleye.  

[Jerry Rapp]

[Seth]

Freaking douchebags! If they are willing to dump fish like that, they are probably willing to kill and keep game fish too.

We went out and killed our share of fish last night too and I stayed up late so I wouldn't miss out on the best part, which is eating fresh suckers on the river bank!

[Hog Wally]

39 minutes ago, Jerry Rapp said:

Now that's funny!

[MoCarp]

Like always a few will make the rest loose their fun...anything in moderation

[Chief Grey Bear]

never mind

[Haris122]

What Access was that at?

[Mitch f]

1 hour ago, Haris122 said:

What Access was that at?

Sand Ford

[thewhitesnoop]

This is a MDC issue.

MDC seems to be all about people gigging game fish, otters eating game fish and people keeping game fish.

*They can stock otters, but not bass

*They allow gigging but I don't think they do much regulating of it.

*They won't protect stream bass from catch and keep. They even open bass season on Memorial weekend when every live bait user in the state is out there putting every fish they catch on the stringer. How dumb is that?

I'm not against gigging, just the gigging of bass (which we know goes along with it, since I doubt MDC has too many agents on the midnight shift to ticket these incidents).

Their solution to the otter problem.....let people trap them. I don't know about you guys, but I haven't seen too many 1760's style French fur trappers floating downstream in wooden canoes, so I think we are screwed on this one.

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

I dont gig all that much but Ive been checked twice over the years gigging around southwest MO