11-20-2006, 06:26 PM
It's not just the guides anymore...
What I saw last week up there last week really made me sick. I'll shoot you a PM of who these "guides" are. The name has changed but the game is the same.
We were out at first light, the snagging boys were already on the humps.
This was there explanation to the clients almost verbatim, we could hear every word they said:
"Now what we are doing is some real aggressive jigging today. You want to get your rod tip right down by the water and then bring it up off the bottom real fast and as far as you can, up to 10 feet, this will create a real fluttering action as the jig falls back down. This will mak'em mad and sometimes they will give it a good tail swipe"
What a complete bunch of BS...
We by the way caught about 70 fish between the 3 of us, ALL in the mouth I might ad.
Then for just a moment we thought there might be some justice.
We saw a cop boat pull into Linwood and start glassing people and checking licenses. They watched the big blue and white boat on the hump for about 10 minutes, which was enough time for their clients to snag 2 fish, and then moved in. We were elated to think that this worthless guide was about to get chewed on. The cops boarded the boat, stood and shot the bull with the crew while the clients were blatently snagging, checked their licenses, reboarded their own boat, and left without saying a word.
The fishing regs define Snagging as "A means to take a fish in a manner that the fish does not take the hook voluntarily in its mouth. It is unlawful to snag fish"
But it is obvious that our fish cops dont care...
So my question is who will police the police ?
Maybe its time for vigilante justice...
P.S. Welcome back Fishley... Knew it would'nt be long...[
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What I saw last week up there last week really made me sick. I'll shoot you a PM of who these "guides" are. The name has changed but the game is the same.
We were out at first light, the snagging boys were already on the humps.
This was there explanation to the clients almost verbatim, we could hear every word they said:
"Now what we are doing is some real aggressive jigging today. You want to get your rod tip right down by the water and then bring it up off the bottom real fast and as far as you can, up to 10 feet, this will create a real fluttering action as the jig falls back down. This will mak'em mad and sometimes they will give it a good tail swipe"
What a complete bunch of BS...
We by the way caught about 70 fish between the 3 of us, ALL in the mouth I might ad.
Then for just a moment we thought there might be some justice.
We saw a cop boat pull into Linwood and start glassing people and checking licenses. They watched the big blue and white boat on the hump for about 10 minutes, which was enough time for their clients to snag 2 fish, and then moved in. We were elated to think that this worthless guide was about to get chewed on. The cops boarded the boat, stood and shot the bull with the crew while the clients were blatently snagging, checked their licenses, reboarded their own boat, and left without saying a word.
The fishing regs define Snagging as "A means to take a fish in a manner that the fish does not take the hook voluntarily in its mouth. It is unlawful to snag fish"
But it is obvious that our fish cops dont care...
So my question is who will police the police ?
Maybe its time for vigilante justice...
P.S. Welcome back Fishley... Knew it would'nt be long...[
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