Posted on 05/03/2008 7:24:04 AM PDT by campg
Saturday, May 3, 2008 6:38 AM CDT Postville men arrested, charged with 27 fishing violations WEST UNION (AP) --- Three men have been arrested and charged with 27 fishing violations after using beer cans to catch trout from a northeastern Iowa creek.
Authorities say an off-duty Fayette County deputy noticed suspicious fishing activity at Glovers Creek trout stream earlier this week. He called the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
DNR officials accuse the three men of illegally tying fishing lines to empty beer cans, then dragging the cans with the catch to shore. Authorities seized the trout, illegal fishing lines, rods and reels, beer and a van with Wisconsin license plates.
Authorities say the men were not U.S. citizens and that immigration officials were notified.
Officials say the men had been living in Postville.
Kudos to anyone who can 'splain this. Trout like beer? 'Sup?
*Notepad at the ready*
Trout get thirsty too!
Beer can trout fishing? Hmm, I wonder where these foreign folks learned that method? Must be those crazy Norwegians.
Sort of like a tiny version of the barrels in Jaws. "He can't go down with three Bud cans on him."
Sounds like they were using trot lines instead of a single hook and line.
*gasp* What kind of sick psychopath violates a fish?!
I’m bumping this one until somebody explains beer can fishing.
Mine too! Nobody ever accused these illegals of being dumb - just illegal. Catching trout with beer cans shows signs of higher intelligence.
Ain't diversity wonderful.....?
Very few Americans know the seriousness of fishing laws: one can have their vehicle confiscated and auctioned off for catching and keeping one fish that is of an illegal size.
These guys were illegals and had no idea what they were doing was illegal. They’ll be deported for this, while illegals that feed themselves by robbing and killing people will be put back out on the street.
I’m bumping this one until somebody explains beer can fishing.<<<
Fierro's foolproof fishing ping.
Clever.
*Burp*
“Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer.”
I laid out a 30 hook trot line one night to lay in a creek on the edge of the sound. As I was baiting it up the marsh coons would steal from one end while I was at the other. Between untangling the mess they made and having all the bait stolen by crabs overnight I don’t think I’ll ever try one that long again.
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It is conceivable that they were fishing for kegs and caught the trout by accident.
Sounds like a redneck to me, hey ya’ll watch me do this, lol
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.
Reminds me of a favorite “Far Side” cartoon:
2 guys in a boat, on a lake, fishing, when a mushroom cloud appears on the horizon.
One says to the other:
“You know what this means?”
“Screw the limit!”
Ya stand on the bank and throw beer cans at the fish
When you hit em you apologize and stick em in an ice chest.
When you hit em you apologize and stick em in an ice chest.
It works because trout will scavange dead bait fish, and there's a lot of island camp sites next to deep water.
I've never tried this, but it seems like it would appeal to somebody who doesn't want to truck a lot of tackle into the deep woods and prefers time in a hammock to time thrashing the water with lures or watching a bobber.
We'll dance with the fairest of maidens
and sing them the bawdiest songs.
We'll tell them the wildest of stories.
We'll show them where kisses belong.
Again, again, we'll dance 'til their husbands come in.
'Til then, 'til then, we'll drink with the warmest of friends.
So, raise all your mugs to the heavens,
and drink to the health of all men.
We'll drink at the basest of barrooms,
imbibe at the finest of inns.
We'll taste at the smallest of taverns;
leave one, and another begin.
Again, again, we'll drink 'til we've no more to spend.
'Til then, 'til then, we'll drink with the drunkest of friends.
So, raise all your mugs to the heavens,
and drink to the health of all men.
Sounds wierd. I've caught many a catfish using a the old beer can trot line down on White river but I never heard of anyone fishing for trout this way. But then I never really fished for trout so I don't know much about them. I thought you had to get fly gear to trout fish and that, like bass fishing, looked too much like work to me. Forget that, put me on a mess of crappie with a minnow under a float and cold drink in my hand. Heaven has to be a bit like that.
ping
An ad placed by Ireland’s tourist authority in a German news magazine described how the Irish catch fish:
The fisherman throws hunks of bread soaked in beer into the water, and the fish eat them. Then, all he has to do is scoop ut the intoxicated fish with a net.
My fishing days ended when I stopped being able to flip a line in a Canadian lake or creek between two lakes and pull out a 6 or 7 pound walleye with every other cast....that was in about 1947 and '48.
What river do they run in....and how many is it legal to have in your posession?
LOL
“DNR officials accuse the three men of illegally tying fishing lines to empty beer cans, then dragging the cans with the catch to shore. Authorities seized the trout, illegal fishing lines, rods and reels, beer and a van with Wisconsin license plates.”
But yet, the government has seen fit to cut off all salmon fishing for US citizens on the west coast. The irony is thick enough to wall up that entire border.
see post 36.
“Illegal immigrants not only harm the environment, but keep our law enforcement/DNR Agencies busy. “
Indeed. In the Pac. N.W, our sheriffs spend all their time busting armed Mexican drug cartels growing dope in our national parks and forests. It’s destroying the habitat. Homeland security says it isn’t their problem.
Photos and more here:
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=invasion+800+miles
“These guys were illegals and had no idea what they were doing was illegal. “
Oh, please! Like they didn’t know crossing the border was illegal, or using your SS # was illegal or lying to get a job to get unlawful employment....
Please! Ignorance doesn’t excuse a US citizen, why should it an alien?
Build the fence!
Actually Viet Namese and Laotians have been caught in illegal fishing processes for years. Limits and fishing regulations have no meaning to them. As far as they are concerned they are back home subsitance fishing.
I think you're missing my point: illegals that rob people and take part in gang violence don't get sent back, but illegals that break fishing laws do!?!
I say send them all back, but sheesh, we're spending money to send guys fishing back, and saving money by letting the rapists, thieves and gang members stay?!?
Something's really wrong with that.
I am NOT calling a thread hijack on that, because I've seen illegals fishing with beer cans.
They take mono-filament line, tie it to a beer (or soft drink can) and put a hook and sinker on the other end.
Then, they take the string and wind it onto the can, from the back toward the front. To throw the line, they just use an underhand motion and the weight will pull the line off the can.
One problem, big fish tend to break the line since there is no rod to absorb and shock when the fish takes off. Lots of broken lines and trashed shorelines.
oh ok, my bad
Understood. Thanks.
“””Its all right there in the Mexican Gov’t issued pamphlet “Illegal Migrant living in the US on $3 a day”.”””
“””””I am NOT calling a thread hijack on that, because I’ve seen illegals fishing with beer cans”””””
I hope you didn’t misunderstand me. I was trying to be a bit ‘tongue in cheek’ there.
Knot the line around the neck to anchor it. Then, wind the line around the bottle. Attach a casting weight and hook(s) on the end of the line.
Grasp the neck of the bottle and cast the line, just as you would with a rod. The Coke bottle essentially performs as a spinning reel.
This is a clearly case of alcohol abuse . . pure and simple!!!
Getting fish drunk to catch them is disgusting
If the river were whiskey
And I were a duck
I would swim to the bottom
And never come up
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