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I've been watching as a group of guys from out of town have been filming their musky fishing for what appears to be some type of show on my home water.I've been amazed with the poor ethics and the rude behavior exhibited by these gentlemen. We fish the known spots on our local lake and give each other their space(have fished here for years with no problem). These fellows often find it neccassary to cut people off in their drifts. One of my friends had a verbal altercation with the camera crew the other night after they cut between him and shore. One of the "pros" invited my friend to settle it on shore. We all had a good laugh about it.
I wouldn't be writing to complain, but tonight something very aggravating happened. The guys got a nice fish(snagged in the tail) and finnally netted it. It took them about 10 minutes to then deal with it in the net. They then took about 20 minutes to measure and talk about it and put it in the livewell(or the floor, but I hope it was the livewell). They then drove the boat out into the channel, talked about the great experience it was catching this fish, and after about a half hour put the fish in the water while filming. My friend said "the fish is probably on the bottom of the river now".
There is no reason in this heat,(83 degree surface down here)to net a fish, let the livewell fill, then drive the fish around for a half hour, then hold it for the camera for filming and a 10 minute photo session(the fish was out of the water probably 20 minutes). If these guys were such experts, they'd realize they just killed a musky.
I'm sorry to vent here, and I won't mention the show that is filming, because I'm not even sure it was those guys tonight. I just wish some of these fly by night experts doing their show, would learn about fish handling(heat related stress on muskies), ethics, and respect, before trying to become the next Joe Bucher(who they should probably take a few lessons from)!!!!!!!
They can cut me off all they want, but after the smoke clears and a few big muskies are dead, they'll just move on to the next lake(maybe yours).
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| Yeah, sometimes the 'pros' are none too professional. I always heard the rule that the fishshould only be out of water for as long as you can hold your breath. I was watching Roland Martin last night on TV at a lake in Mexico catching the big big bass they have down there. He got one, netted it (!), put it on the carpeted floor of his Triton to get a girth measurement, talked thru a calculation on how to get weight from length & girth, waved the fish around for a while, said his farewells to the camera, then started to put the fish back. Not a good way to treat the resource.
By the way, his formula was : w = l x g squared / 800. m[:bigsmile:] |
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| Reef Hawg- My stepson was out the other night and told me about a crew filming north of "Devils Elbow", he said there were total six boats including camera boat in the area (8 fish caught)he was fishing. He was surprised by number of boats in the area. He didn't remember the guy's names, but he did say one of the guy's gave him his number. The two "pro's" were from Milwaukee.
Billy got a 44.5" & released it (his personal best), the "pro's watched him catch it and perhap's filmed it. Billy said, because it was the largest fish caught that night, they told him they might use the fish's picture, if they didn't catch anything larger. Go figure!
Al Warner
www.icantplayfindmyfoot.com
Could this be the same crew? |
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| Snagged in the tail? Seems to me this would constitute an illegally caught fish. It should have been immediatley released. A fish in the livewell counts against your daily limit, and as such, a snagged fish put in the livewell is a violation. At least that's how I see it.
Tight Lines,
Shep[:sun:] |
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| Yep, it was definately snagged, hence the reason they didn't turn the camera on till the capture. It just ticked me off to see these put the "glamour" of filming in front of the fish's welfare. Friends and I spend our own time and money to raise and stock fish each year into this system, where are they when we need help seigning minnows???? |
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