Gill net found on Winnie with rotten fish!

[DavidH]

Funny all the complaints about Natives fishing/netting/spearing Red lake, Leech and Winnie and there are over 10,000 lakes here in Minnesota. Surely one can find another lake to fish on where there is no Native fishing/netting/spearing.

Or are there ulterior motives to some of these complaints?

[GunDr]

If the Red lake is truly sovereign, can I buy my cigs, gas and booze, without having to pay any fed or state taxes?

Just curious.

Windsurfer...glad you found this site. See ya around the TS site. How close are you to the Brainerd area. I'm just north of Pine River

Doug

[Chris Haley]

It's dry res. so you can't buy your booze there. I don't think they pay state sales tax though. There is a commercial for a repair shop that has a trailer at the end stating "and you always save 6.5%"

[JP Z]

I would like to point out just so people know that all netters aren't from the Res. Mille Lacs used to have a gill-netting season for Whitefish/Tulibees and my dad and I netted it. Was quite a fun experience.......except when someone snagged a net while trolling and thought it would be fun to drop it off a 20' foot hole. Of course they thought they were saving the fish of course you drop it in that depth and all it will catch is Eyes. My dad went out and drug his anchor until he snagged it. See some of us netters do care about where our nets end up.

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Tight Lines,
JP Z

[bigbucks]

The only comments I wanted to make, are sticking to the actual subject. Although it would appear that the owner of the net found on Winnie & shown in the picture was a negligent slob regardless of race, we don't know that's for sure the case. Now maybe someone knows the guy & knows the circumstances, but how do we know he didn't have a heart attack or some one in his family get deathly ill, etc. & he hasn't even remembered or been capable of remembering that he put a net out? Here's another possibility too, someone didn't like the guy for some reason, so they moved it to another spot & set it up just like he would have set it, so it looks like negligence, yet he doesn't even know where it is.

What makes me think of this scenario is I once had a 4 X 6 permanent fishhouse on runners, that was very light. I came out to go fishing on Saturday afternoon & it wasn't there. In the past that house had blown accross the lakes if we got like 40+ mph winds during a thaw, but this wasn't the case. I reported it stolen & like two days later received a fine for have my fish house on the lake without my name or driver's license # on it, the citation was from 5 days "before" I even knew it was missing. The first thing I asked the CO was, "Where is the fish house?" He tells me it's on a different lake less than a mile from the one it had been on. I went & checked it out, sure enough it had been bashed in, the insides burned, & my name sign ripped off. It took some convincing, but I did get them to drop the fine. Anyway I'm just saying it's possible this net isn't this guy's fault.

[deadminnowcatcher]

I just spent way more time than I care to admit, reading the posts on this topic. I cannot belive some of the replies. "our fish, there fish, here a fish, there a fish, everywhere a fish fish. With that being said if you find a net with rotten fish in it- You mark the location and call a game warden. If they do nothing about it, you call a supervisor. Let them investigate it and see if the owner died or what. Now if you have a problem with a group of people allowed to net fish-you are not alone-what can you do about it-probably nothing. If you think one should just go to one of the other 10,000 lakes- well maybe one does not feel like going to some other lake. Suckers carp, rough fish- whats the point. Why speculate.

[ricqik]

TS sit???

[pjfweb]

I can't believe I read through all this.

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Patrick (pjfweb)
Bloomington, MN
www.sirpatrick.com

[disco]

how much DNR stocking takes place in the lakes in question to supplant those yanked out in nets?

is there a way to find this out or knowledgable folks on here who might be privy to this kinda info?

[windsurferlawman]

There was a little something about the net in the cuffs and collars report in the June 18th Outdoors news-

michael

[Nuclear Fishin]

I would like to respond to those who say this is an isolated incident that might have occurred under strange circumstances (storm, death in the family, etc.).

As a person who grew up in Northern Minnesota I can say (as well as anyone who has hunted and fished in this area their entire life) that these pictures don't surprise me at ALL. This kind of thing is not all that uncommon.

I've personally seen gill nets washed up on shore on Pike Bay full of fish that rotted with a name and tribal number on them. The only reason I can come up with as to why they leave the name and number on them is that they don't care if they are caught because nothing is done. We've called authorities and reported it. I've also seen the many dump piles in the woods with some fish cleaned, others just left for the eagles and crows.

This kinda stuff happens alot and I'm glad someone posted the pictures so people from other areas can see what I've seen my whole life.