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Title: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: Shannon on January 08, 2010, 08:13:34 AM
I don't get to riled up about the indians netting on the Skagit because I know there is nothing we can do about it, but what I saw yesterday really pisses me off. I was walking my dog on one of the dikes and I see a net with antifreeze jugs tied to it laying in the water by the rocks. I investigate it and its full of dead steelhead and not one is hatchery. How they can get by with even having a net in the water with virtually extinct levels of natives is beyond me. That got the blood boiling.
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: kbyers on January 08, 2010, 09:20:44 AM
Pictures are worth a thousand words.  And I am sure that you could find a newspaper reporter that needs a story
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: JackOfAllTrades on January 08, 2010, 09:24:49 AM
I'm sure that if I typed what I really want to say, my post would be deleted.

-Steve
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: tomy salami on January 08, 2010, 09:29:20 AM
.............hmmmm. Should I?
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: Shootmoore on January 08, 2010, 09:30:13 AM
Photo's and pass it on to the newspaper. 

Shootmoore
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: huntnphool on January 08, 2010, 10:09:57 AM
Go get some pics, and if you don't have a camera then find someone that does.(https://hunting-washington.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10123/worthless.gif)
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: hogsniper on January 08, 2010, 10:24:42 AM
Thats terrible.  I got a camera just tell me where and Ill go get some pics!!! Doesnt surprise me tho, they can do whatever they want anymore!!!
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: Shannon on January 08, 2010, 10:32:35 AM
I didn't have a camera with me and I had a meeting I had to get to. I was thinking about going back today after work and see if its still there. Justin, if you want to go its on Lafayette Road where they have been dumping brush and top soil along the dike. If you take the access road (which has been open lately) at the sharp curve in the road and walk it up on the dike, theres a gate that blocks a short road covered in grass that dies at the river. Look along the rocks right there you'll see it if its still there. The antifreeze jugs were white. Let me know if you get some pics.
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: Alchase on January 08, 2010, 12:39:49 PM
I reported the same thing on the Duwamish a few years ago. I was told that the WDFW can do nothing! The tribes are self policing.
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: NWBREW on January 08, 2010, 12:48:05 PM
Get some pics and get it reported to the news. Probobly won't do any good, but I'd do it anyways.
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: hogsniper on January 08, 2010, 01:11:19 PM
Im gonna go try to find it in a few minutes!  Ill post any pics if I get em!   What a waste!!!!
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: huntnphool on January 08, 2010, 04:35:51 PM
I found and took pics last year of a elk carcass that had been dumped by natives in the Puyallup, witnessed by several city of Tacoma empoyees. I sent the pics, location and info to F&G and never heard a word.
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: tomy salami on January 08, 2010, 04:42:59 PM
Would it be bad, if somebody started doing the old "hay bale off the bridge" trick somewhere up river?

...........really don't solve nuffin. State would end up buyin em new nets, and it puts ghost nets out that will never be retrieved.

Sounds so good sometimes. Ooops.
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: woodswalker on January 08, 2010, 04:53:52 PM
Would it be bad, if somebody started doing the old "hay bale off the bridge" trick somewhere up river?

...........really don't solve nuffin. State would end up buyin em new nets, and it puts ghost nets out that will never be retrieved.

Sounds so good sometimes. Ooops.

no but a nice sharp knife and reel the net onto a pole and burn it works.
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: tomy salami on January 08, 2010, 05:12:02 PM
Really?................

Never heard that one.

Oops.
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: 7mmfan on January 08, 2010, 05:18:22 PM
The part that really irks me is that there is not enough wild fish projected back to that system this year to have a Catch and Release season, yet, the $*^#$&^%#$*!&#^% indians can net them. Time to play some cowboys and indians if you ask me. you didn't hear that from me though... :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: tomy salami on January 08, 2010, 05:22:52 PM
I like where this is going..............

Aint gonna last long. I smell it.

Ever hear of a guy just yankin all their gear in at night? No ghost nets, and enough eggs for all your friends, if they help............just a rumor, though. Heard a story like that, once, somewhere, forgot who told me.
Title: Re: Nets on the Skagit
Post by: 3dsheetmetal on January 08, 2010, 08:22:22 PM
I know a guy that floated the Nooksack one night and pulled about 26 nets.Left them on the bank minus the fish in them.                                   
  As far as I know he did it quite often.He only got caught once by an indian and that didn't turn out to well for the injun. :nono:
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