Just when you thought.........

.........you've seen or heard of everything......on the Erie Tribs that is! Talked to Blacknosedace on the phone the other night and he said that he was fishing upper Elk the other weekend and a younger fella came walking down creek dragging something in the creek and when he got close enough BND said that the kid was dragging fish around in a mesh laundry bag still alive. I guess the kid had 6 fish in the bag and proceeded to tell BND that 3 were his and 3 were his buddies who was just up creek and that when they catch a bigger fish they release a smaller fish that they have been dragging around for who knows how long.....Basically a walking live well.......unreal......

LOL  too funny

I donno  how legal it is, but the "walking live well"  idea sounds good.....


..L.T.A.

fishing lower elk on black friday 3 guys came through in kayaks, helmets and all. They needed em when the group of guys beside me started firing hardware at em.

ORIGINAL: Hefalump

Reminds me of when I had a cabin right on a tiny brook with native Brook Trout in upstate NY...
Once in a while I saw a person come downstream with a burlap bag full of maybe 20 to 30 Brook Trout.  When I asked what he was doing... he told me he was feeding his family.

So if that individual was doing the same... what's wrong with it? 
Hope to get more pros then cons, especialy this time of year.

   Mike 

 
Whats wrong with it?? Its against the law because the possesion limit is only 3. That is whats wrong with it.

I believe there is an exemption for ( PF&BC approved ) tournaments, but in all other cases the "culling" of fish is illegal in Penna.

spoon said it right culling is illeagal in PA no matter what you use to hold fish in or on , stringer , sack , basket , or bucket, or even a land locked small pool of water. once you catch and dont release immedietly then you have harvested a fish and the leagal limit is all you are entitled to posses.

If the guy needs to feed his family, let him get food stamps.....The feeding his family explanation was a quick response to a tough question.....

Looks like someone is trolling here!!!!!!!!!   Maybe he's caught a few. At least I hope he is .

Keeping more than your daily limit in one container or rope is illegal.  I have had that discussion with people on the streams before.  People just don't seem to understand that you cannot combine two people's fish together.  I know it does not really make sense, but it is the law.  Also, as mentioned culling is illegal.  I have seen people do it, or give away a fish.  If you give a fish away it counts towards your limit for the day, so if you have three fish and give any of the three away, if you keep another fish you are over your limit.
 
reference: http://www.fish.state.pa.us/fishpub/summary/violations.html
 

To have on a stringer or in a container or otherwise in possession, while in or along waters of the Commonwealth or immediately returning therefrom, more than the daily creel limit of any fish for one person.

To fail to immediately return unharmed to the waters from which it was taken, any fish caught out of season, or undersize, or over the daily creel limit. Any fish placed on a stringer, in any container or given away, counts toward the possession limit of the person having caught it, and the person to whom it was given.
 
As for the argument about keeping more than a daily limit to feed your family, that is a tough one.  I feel for people who are having problems, but breaking the law is breaking the law.  Once we start thinking the law does not apply to us or we have excuses that give us license to break the law we are heading down a slippy slope towards chaos and anarchy.  There are ways to fed your family that do not involve breaking the law.

ORIGINAL: Bughawk

As for the argument about keeping more than a daily limit to feed your family, that is a tough one.  I feel for people who are having problems, but breaking the law is breaking the law.  Once we start thinking the law does not apply to us or we have excuses that give us license to break the law we are heading down a slippy slope towards chaos and anarchy.  There are ways to fed your family that do not involve breaking the law.

 
IMHO
If you are feeding your family more than 3 fish a day they may or will have more problems than needing food.   I'm thinking about the mercury content in fish.

ORIGINAL: Bughawk

Keeping more than your daily limit in one container or rope is illegal.  I have had that discussion with people on the streams before.  People just don't seem to understand that you cannot combine two people's fish together.  I know it does not really make sense, but it is the law.  Also, as mentioned culling is illegal.  I have seen people do it, or give away a fish.  If you give a fish away it counts towards your limit for the day, so if you have three fish and give any of the three away, if you keep another fish you are over your limit.

reference: http://www.fish.state.pa.us/fishpub/summary/violations.html

To have on a stringer or in a container or otherwise in possession, while in or along waters of the Commonwealth or immediately returning therefrom, more than the daily creel limit of any fish for one person.

To fail to immediately return unharmed to the waters from which it was taken, any fish caught out of season, or undersize, or over the daily creel limit. Any fish placed on a stringer, in any container or given away, counts toward the possession limit of the person having caught it, and the person to whom it was given.

As for the argument about keeping more than a daily limit to feed your family, that is a tough one.  I feel for people who are having problems, but breaking the law is breaking the law.  Once we start thinking the law does not apply to us or we have excuses that give us license to break the law we are heading down a slippy slope towards chaos and anarchy.  There are ways to fed your family that do not involve breaking the law.

Does this apply to charter captians as well ? Every charter I've ever been on they throw all of the fish in one cooler. How about if you are in your own boat, do you need more than one cooler or livewell ?

I one time figured out each Steelhead I keep costs me $122.45.  Thats IF I keep my three.  I keep 20 per year, that's it.  And that calculation doesn't include my boat, just stream gear, travel, rooms, etc.

Breaking the law SPORT fishing to feed your family is stupid and as others pointed out uneconomical.Will be really costly if you are caught by the law.A better idea is get a JOB.

Breaking the law is breaking the law. Yes I would turn him in. There are government programs out there that would help them, so there is no excuse.

There He was completely wasting, out of work and down
All inside its so frustrating as he drifts from town to town
Feel as though nobody cares if he lives or dies
So he might as well begin to catch some brook trout for his wife

Breaking the law, Breaking the law
Breaking the law, Breaking the law
Breaking the law, Breaking the law