Post by: pianoman9701 on June 18, 2019, 11:45:07 AM
Post by: Whitpirate on June 18, 2019, 12:24:08 PM
Post by: boneaddict on June 18, 2019, 12:32:04 PM
(for instance, you catch bass in a lake where there "are just trout", you still treat it as a gamefish) :yeah:
Post by: Pegasus on June 18, 2019, 12:38:35 PM
Post by: Jake Dogfish on June 18, 2019, 12:39:31 PM
Catch and release only.
Post by: boneaddict on June 18, 2019, 12:40:22 PM
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Better alert the WDFW so they use rotenone to kill those suckers.
:chuckle: i had the same thought...... maybe i need fitted for that tinfoil hat
Post by: Pegasus on June 18, 2019, 01:45:01 PM
Post by: jackelope on June 18, 2019, 07:50:38 PM
https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/01998/wdfw01998.pdf
Page 14. No mention made of any invasive anything. Sturgeon is catch and release during open game fish or salmon seasons statewide. Special rules apply to specific areas is the way I read it.
Post by: pianoman9701 on June 19, 2019, 08:07:25 AM
Post by: Pegasus on June 24, 2019, 10:24:50 AM
Thanks for all the responses, gang. I kind of figured it to be so. The Vermont spearing and shooting video is interesting. I grew up in NH near the VT border and never heard of such a thing. Shooting at the water kind of goes against my Hunter Ed instincts but that was cool. I've certainly caught some big northerns in the CT River between NH and VT, and chain pickerel in NH and MA. Lots of fun when you hook a 3 footer.
Grew up on the other side of the CT river from you. I never heard about shooting pike in Vermont until many years after leaving the state. Trust me if I had heard of this in my high school days I would have gone fishing with a bunch of buddies and our 30-30's without our dads' approvals and given it a try. Prolly not a good idea...
Post by: pianoman9701 on June 24, 2019, 12:01:05 PM
Thanks for all the responses, gang. I kind of figured it to be so. The Vermont spearing and shooting video is interesting. I grew up in NH near the VT border and never heard of such a thing. Shooting at the water kind of goes against my Hunter Ed instincts but that was cool. I've certainly caught some big northerns in the CT River between NH and VT, and chain pickerel in NH and MA. Lots of fun when you hook a 3 footer.
Grew up on the other side of the CT river from you. I never heard about shooting pike in Vermont until many years after leaving the state. Trust me if I had heard of this in my high school days I would have gone fishing with a bunch of buddies and our 30-30's without our dads' approvals and given it a try. Prolly not a good idea...
Where were you living there? Ever hear of the Fitzwilliam Inn south of Keene? That was my folks place from '73-2001.
Post by: bigtex on June 24, 2019, 12:02:17 PM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190619/a55f41a6f8f9833a24fca5da6700a132.jpg):yeah:
https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/01998/wdfw01998.pdf
Page 14. No mention made of any invasive anything. Sturgeon is catch and release during open game fish or salmon seasons statewide. Special rules apply to specific areas is the way I read it.
Definitely not invasive
Post by: Pegasus on June 24, 2019, 12:42:12 PM
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190619/a55f41a6f8f9833a24fca5da6700a132.jpg):yeah:
https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/01998/wdfw01998.pdf
Page 14. No mention made of any invasive anything. Sturgeon is catch and release during open game fish or salmon seasons statewide. Special rules apply to specific areas is the way I read it.
Definitely not invasive
Doubtful that those fish were left there after the last ice-age retreated. That lake had a mill on it with a fish screen finally installed in 1940 to save some of the fish from destruction in the mill usage of the water after the mill had previously been in operation for 55 years. The lake was earlier dammed in 1883 to raise the water level 12 feet for the mill usage. It wasn't much of a lake prior to the dams, more of a ditch. It is more likely some enterprising mill employee released the fish or fertilized eggs many years ago. The WDFW may not consider them as invasive since sturgeon exist naturally in other areas of the state.