What were the limits?
Looks like three Game ‘n Fish bureaucrats needed new bass boats.
Maybe, or maybe they really were overfishing. From the article:
“Ohio law only allows fisherman to catch five bass fish per day. The men had caught 146”
Glad they were caught. 146 bass is a lot of poaching going on.
I assume they were not commercial fishermen? I am a sport fisher and believe there is a limit even if I am catching quite a bit... especially in fresh water. Not because the government says so, but as a courtesy to fellow anglers. Salt water is a different story...
Boys Walleyes are the fish to catch. Best tasting fresh water fish around! But nobody should have 146 in the freezer.
Ouch
Too bad they didn’t want some of the carp - the shores of Lake Erie are swarming with them. You can walk in and scoop ‘em up by hand.
They just needed to paint “RESEARCH” on the side of the boats and everything would have been OK.
How do you say “you ain’t from around here, are you?” in yankee?
“One of the fined man, Charles Burkhart, told the Chattanooga Times Free Press he and his buddies thought the limit was only five fish per trip onto the water.”
Oh please. What planet do they usually fish on that has limit laws like that? Is there anyplace that makes their law “per trip onto the water?!”
Who the hell would eat fish from that lake anyway? Isn’t it pretty filthy?
There is a penalty for the taking of the king’s deer...
All in all, the whole penalty is outrageous at about $500 per illegal fish.
What has happened to Sportsmanship?
“All your bass are belong to us!”
These guys ever hear about catch & release?
Maybe this wasn’t their first offense too.
It’s an AP story and the reporter is lazy. There are just too many facts missing. The sub-title says that Six Men Caught 141 Fish Too Many. Well, is it 5 fish per boat - or 5 fish per man? The article says it was a fishing trip in April. The men where from Tennessee and Georgia, so was it a one-day trip, or was it a weekend or week-long trip? The men said they thought it was five fish per trip into the water, so were they going out several times a day or once each day over a week. 30 per day X 5 days would be 150 fish ... and they would think they were within that limit. Really bad article.
They need to learn from the Asians. In Calif whether it is fresh water or bay fishing Asians fish in teams. The A-holes
have one or two guys fishing and pass off their take to buddies with licenses around the corner or in the parking lot. Fish and game seem to be blind to this. You can call in a complaint but I’ve never seen anything done about it. Fish and game only busts the white guys who have a fish that is a half inch over or you mishangled the fish.
The so called "sportsmen" of Northern Wisconsin have been over fishing the lakes and streams of Upper Michigan for many years. The worst are the professional guides who take their clients up there to show off their knowledge of an area they don't belong, day after day after day after day, or pretty much the entire fishing season. I have never had a problem with the ones who vacation there or even buy property and pay taxes. The ones who cross over the border every day just to fish, I have no use for. There has been a war over fishing between the States since before we were United. Just look at the border between Maryland and Virginia sometime and look into how it turned out that way.