I saw the DNR with the big net out at Point Douglas Park last Sunday. I could not stay long enough for them to bring in enough of the net to see what was in it. Anybody else see it? Pictures? That was a lot of net. There must have been lots of good stuff in it!!
it’s the carp netters
Correct. It’s the netters with DNR oversight.
Why does the McDonalds “Gimme my Fillet O’ Fish, Gimme that Fish” come to mind???
-J.
Used to see some really big eye’s released when netters pulled in at Douglas point. One year saw fish being loaded into semi trailer on a city street near the controversial ayport access road. That was a year when that dirt road was really busted up, trenched and rutted. Anybody have any pix from that year?
Looked like the DNR was in the parking lot no where near the netters. The netting boat was ‘manned’ by 3 kids. One maybe 18 and the other two around 12. They were launching lots of drum, eyes and saugers. IMO clearly mishandling the fish. The smaller ones were stunned from the launching and lots of fish were belly up and washing on the rocks. Surely there was fish kill.
Short story/report on this in todays Strib. Check out the huge musky in the pic!
Commercial fishermen working on the St. Croix River last week between Hastings and Prescott, Wis., primarily targeted big- and smallmouth buffalo. These fish are sent to Chicago, New York City and other points east — in some cases shipped live, in tanker trucks — where they are considered by some to be highly delectable, if not delicacies.
Here, of course, they’re generally thought to be rough fish.
Most interesting to bystanders who watched the fishermen gather their long mesh seine Friday along the beach near the Prescott dam were the game fish that also were caught in the net. Among them were giant muskies — at least one in the 50-inch range — and gargantuan walleyes, at least a couple weighing 12 pounds or more.
Those fish were quickly released back into the St. Croix.
Neil Vanderbosch, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’s commercial fisheries coordinator, said most commercial fish netting in the state occurs in rivers, primarily the Mississippi and St. Croix.
DENNIS ANDERSON
-J.
ya, the picture shows one of the kids who is about to toss that monster muskie at least 5 feet to clear that net. i am guessing he probably was not strong enough to clear it the first time and the fish took a couple of blows before making it back to the water. Hopefully it lived.
these kids left multiple eyes and saugs floating belly up stunned and left for dead after launching them back into the water in the short time I was there. It is bull**** imo.
it appeared as though there was DNR in the parking lot, but they were not even in sight of the ‘net clearing’.
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