Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Some illegal shad harvesting going on at fletchers

Dang.. Are they eating all these fish? I don't get it.. what's the point? Seems like way more fish than anyone needs.  Clearly I'm naïve to this

On Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 2:41:12 PM UTC-4 rfa...@gmail.com wrote:

Yeah – they clean them on the water to make it easier to take their illegal haul up the rocks.

 

Rob Snowhite sees this a lot when guiding and it's usually the same thing.  One guy spots an enforcement agent, they start whistling, and everyone drops their gear and dumps their fish and they walk back up to their cars with no evidence.

 

R

 

From: Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders <tidal-potoma...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of martyworm <mbruc...@gmail.com>
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Date: Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 2:00 PM
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Subject: Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Some illegal shad harvesting going on at fletchers

 

yea maybe.  These look like they've already been filleted though.  Either way, contacted harbor patrol who basically said it was tough to police from a boat... 

On Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 1:33:09 PM UTC-4 rfa...@gmail.com wrote:

That's usually poachers who spook when they see someone coming and they dump their bag and bail.

 

 

From: Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders <tidal-potoma...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of namfos <mark....@gmail.com>
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Date: Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 12:37 PM
To: Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders <tidal-potoma...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Some illegal shad harvesting going on at fletchers

 

DC/NPS enforcement is so lax it's not even "spotty."

 

On Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 12:33:23 PM UTC-4 martyworm wrote:

Wife and I were fishing at fletchers yesterday evening, got into about 40 shad, one good sized american, a walleye, and 2 stripers! Fantastic evening of fishing as usual, but as we were packing up we saw this on the path by the parking lot.  These look filleted.  Pretty disheartening.

 

 

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