Good relations with commercial fisherman.

[king fisher]

Where I fish there are gill nets everywhere.  I loose many lures to the nets and can get very frustrated.  I try and tell myself they are simply trying working very hard to make a living, but some times I think they are in bed with the Bait Monkey.

    Last week I caught a big Tilapia and saw a commercial panga near by, so I peddled over and gave him the fish.  The next cay I got my line, and rudder tangled in a net and had to cut some of it to get free.  Later that day I saw a commercial fisherman come paddling toward me.  I was sure he was going to yell at me for cutting his net.  He pulled along side and gave me a huge watermelon. It was the same guy that I gave the tilapia to.  When my wife asked what I caught, I told here 12 bass and a watermelon.

    Yesterday another commercial fisherman waved at me like he had something to show me.  I peddled over, and he held up an 8 pound bass he had just caught in his net.  The bass had a spinnerbait of mine in it's mouth and he wanted to give me the lure. Of course, it was my favorite spinnerbait, the bass had wrapped me around a tree the day before.  It was odd how much the bass shrank while in the gill net.  Must have lost at least 5 pounds.

    Kind acts like these remind me all we all want to do is catch some fish.

[Fishes in trees]

That is a neat story.

[jimmyjoe]

   1) What goes around, comes around. Some people are too impatient to recognize that.

   2) Kindness opens far more doors than keys do.

  

  jj

[WRB]

No commercial harvesting refresh water game fish in California. Salt water has a few restricted areas, otherwise it’s a commercial fishery. Long liners, drift nets, purse seiners, gill nets etc. always kept a good distance from any charter/cattle boats.

We were in a big tuna bite years ago when a Portuguese  mother ship wrapped the school and our boat with a giant net , sent a helicopter over and instructed to follow a pilot boat out of the their net. 

We do have professional bass fishing guides on nearly every lake fishing everyday. Like everyone else there are good guides and e few jerks, avoid them as much as possible.

Good stories are far and few between with commercial fisherman.

Tom

[CrankFate]

3 hours ago, WRB said:

 

Good stories are far and few between with commercial fisherman.

 

You’re being too nice. 

[TnRiver46]

Commercial fishing is only allowed on chickamauga and nickajack in my immediate area. Isn’t that ironic, only allowed on the most famous bass fishery 

[Deleted account]

In a perfect world, there would be no recreational fishermen to impede the working man...

 

[CrankFate]

13 hours ago, BassWhole! said:

In a perfect world, there would be no recreational fishermen to impede the working man...