royhandy
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Twin Lakes 5/6
I got there around 9 am. Found a spot next to two young guys. There was a couple down from them. The wife kept talking about the rainbow that was swimming near the shore. As I was fishing, a WestCo Park Police officer came walking up towards the boathouse. He stopped to shoot the breeze with the two guys about a drunk diabetic that he had been forced to deal with the day before. Actually, they stopped him to find out what the deal had been. In the meantime, the wife had walked down to the boathouse for coffee or something. Her husband caught the 'rainbow' while she was gone. It turned out it was a largemouth that was spawning in the shallows. The guy put it down on the walkway and, with a Park Police officer not 10 feet away, gave the fish a big old boot back into the water. The Park Police officer lit into him but didn't do anything else.
I ended up getting skunked as usual. I caught a really pretty perch (he was 9") on a waxworm but that was it. Saw lots of dead trout floating around, too.
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RE: Twin Lakes 5/6
2007/05/07 15:29:54
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Largemouth > Trout
ALL DAY.
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royhandy
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RE: Twin Lakes 5/6
2007/05/07 15:34:58
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Largemouth > Trout
ALL DAY.
They are my personal preference, too, but I don't fish for them out of season.
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JMZ82
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RE: Twin Lakes 5/6
2007/05/07 15:43:55
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No harm done as long as they are returned to the water unharmed.
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royhandy
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RE: Twin Lakes 5/6
2007/05/07 16:07:24
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Yeah, it's just catch and release, right? The guy next to me was catching them on those Banjo lures you see on TV. He was pretty psyched. Said they were the first fish he ever caught in four years of fishing.
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RE: Twin Lakes 5/6
2007/05/07 16:19:13
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Yeah, ill fish for them out of season but I'm always sure to get them back in as fast as possible. If it is one you can see on its bed it will usually go right back to it or stick around, they usually have enough smarts not to bite again though. I have used the banjo minnow before, it works at times and has its uses. I couldn't imagine fishing for four years and not catching a fish though, talk about a dry spell, I usually am a little disappointed if I go once and don't catch a fish let along 4 years.
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RE: Twin Lakes 5/6
2007/05/07 16:56:22
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If I went a couple trips without catching something, I think I'd have to sell all my gear and take up something else.
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RE: Twin Lakes 5/6
2007/05/07 17:54:44
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so he kicked the bass back into the water? did he get fined?
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RE: Twin Lakes 5/6
2007/05/07 17:58:26
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Could be wrong here, but royhandy said the cop was a westmoreland co. parks cop. I'm pretty sure they don't have the authority to write citations for fishing violations. Only the Fish Commission can do that. Even if they did have that authority, I don't think that guy's stupidity rises to the level of rules violation. Think the county parks cops deal with fines for littering, after hours park use and things of that sort.
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royhandy
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RE: Twin Lakes 5/6
2007/05/07 18:13:09
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so he kicked the bass back into the water? did he get fined?
Yeah he kicked it back into the water. He kicked it hard, too. He told the Officer he was mad because his wife spent 2 hours trying to catch it and it wasn't even a trout. Which...even my 8 year old can tell a trout from a bass in water as clear as Twin Lakes was on Sunday. The Officer just told him pretty firmly that he needed to be more careful with fish in the future. I checked out the Park Police website but it doesn't list the extent of their duties.
post edited by royhandy - 2007/05/07 18:16:42
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RE: Twin Lakes 5/6
2007/05/07 19:50:27
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rsquared is right, county park cop has no authority on fish laws.
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