You see poachers, what would you do?

romanfishing · Post by **romanfishing** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:58 pm

Found a gill net in a lake full of white fish and some walleyes. What would you do?

Post by **Amx** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 2:09 pm

Take pictures and call the WDFW.

Post by **Gringo Pescador** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 2:37 pm

Poaching Hotline
1-877-933-9847

Post by **G-Man** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 4:51 pm

All of the above and mention that you will stay at the site until someone shows up. Because of budget issues you may be asked to report it through 911.

edge540 · Post by **edge540** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:32 pm

I would also stand buy in the distance and continue fishing to see who shows up. If fish and wildlife cant show up quickly I would take pics and video of anybody that shows up to pull the net.

God I hate this crap, Man the deck guns and give em a few shots below the water line

YellowBear · Post by **YellowBear** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:04 am

Make sure the nets do not belong to WDFW first.
If there is no ID on the nets, then call the law.

Anglinarcher · Post by **Anglinarcher** » Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:50 am

All excellent advise, but one word of caution - don't get caught by the poachers!

The WDFW will probably tell you NOT to take pictures of the criminals because they don't want you getting into an altercation. Nevertheless, I probably would do it, just a little covertly.

AJ's Dad · Post by **AJ's Dad** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:16 pm

Don't read too much into this gill net finding, folks.

It's probably just the Kalispel Tribe and the WDFW doing some "Studies" and trying to see how many fish are in that lake. Don't worry, they aren't rying to "Eradicate" anything.

I found a few gill nets up at the Pend Oreille River last year. LOL

Anglinarcher · Post by **Anglinarcher** » Wed Nov 30, 2011 4:56 pm

AJ's Dad wrote:Don't read too much into this gill net finding, folks.

It's probably just the Kalispel Tribe and the WDFW doing some "Studies" and trying to see how many fish are in that lake. Don't worry, they aren't rying to "Eradicate" anything.

I found a few of them up at the Pend Oreille River last year

LOL - but they are trying to eradicate the pike in the PO.

Let's see, going to change the listing on Pike from Game fish to prohibited species next year? That is what I heard last. Even carp are considered food fish.

sivart33 · Post by **sivart33** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:05 pm

not advocating it but i hear that in canada, they throw hail bails through them.

edge540 · Post by **edge540** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:13 pm

sivart33 wrote:not advocating it but i hear that in canada, they throw hail bails through them.

That sir is a family tradition for some of us

Only problem is that the op was talking about nets in a lake, we usually threw em in up river...

Post by **Bodofish** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:24 am

I can neither confirm or deny that it is a tactic of Boldt protesters........

Upstream is good and old 55 gal drums mostly filled with water work miracles

sivart33 · Post by **sivart33** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:11 pm

ya, calling in is the right thing to do, but like most poaching, it will just be pulled from the lake, they won't waste anymore of there time on it. And not prosocute anyone unless they catch them in the act. Its bogas but true they don't. Waste to much time unless they catch them in the act.

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