They have just as much right to fish and keep fish as we do.

and believe me,they are going to read this because they all have computers and internet service.

The Amish I have run into while fishing have been nice. However, on these few occasions I did notice that they kept every single fish they caught regardless of size or species. I watched an Amish kid fish for about an hour one day. I was wading around casting and every time I glanced over, he was putting a fish in the bucket. Bass, panfish, trout, etc.

they dabble in all kinds of money making ventures, puppymills was the current topic on world news.
look in the newspaper,see puppies for sale with "No Sunday Sales" thats them.
I wonder if they pay taxes on that?

The steelhead were put in Erie by man. Walleyes in Pymy were put there by man with your license money.

ORIGINAL: steelheadfillet

The steelhead were put in Erie by man. Walleyes in Pymy were put there by man with your license money.

 
Who said I buy a license???

enywon haV enY pituRes of aMish chiks /





stRayt amisH mUnchR

enywon haV enY pituRes of aMish chiks /

 

ORIGINAL: youngguru

enywon haV enY pituRes of aMish chiks /





stRayt amisH mUnchR

 

If they could just practice a little conservation it would go along way..

Many of us here do alot of fishing and throw a lot of small fish back to catch another day.

When you see the meat wagon I call it..10 men on a pontoon boat leaving a swath of death 30' wide every drift it kinda has a tendency to **** off the fishermen that do practice a little C&R..

If we all as a society harvested our game and fish the way they do we would be done hunting and fishing in a couple years..Our game and fish populations couldn't sustain that kind of pressure...

I understand right now the amish communities are hurting...Many of the mills around here are closed..
If they aren't worken and they are hungry our fish and game are going to take a serious hit...

I'm looking out the window at my neighbors there are 11 of them, That's 22 straight up deer tags..So till you fellas come down and hunt this neck of the woods don't even begin to defend it's legal they can do what they want..Yes it's legal but when there are 6-10 households just like that on the same square of ground you live on it makes a big difference, there are 4x more tags than deer....Makes it tough....

I got good money that says if they were to invade the walleye grounds on Erie and some of you fellas got a taste of your honey hole gettin raped you might not have as much respect for their legal harvest practices...
 
To quote Eggy(mabee he's guiding them)
 
"Bible says God put these critters on this planet for our use and I never read anywere it saying we had to be ethicaly sporting to get them."



 

I live in Lancaster PA which is the center of the Amish population in the US and there's really no way to generalize the whole group as "fish hogs" or killing all the deer they see in or out of season. They have people that  legally buy tags  and licenses and those that don't and shoot fawns with spots just like there are are non-Amish who do and do not. Some don't believe that they have to comply with those laws to get their food connsidering thats one of a few ways they choose to get it. Plus, most Amish families live on acres of farmland and woods where it is easy for them to walk into the field and knock out 2-3 deer a day. This isnt right but thats one reason they do it. just cant generalize because a lot of them follow the law.

hope the game commission knows what has to be done to compensate the high rate of fish taken by the amish lol. sucks if things slow down for the poeple who pay the license fee, and abide by the laws and regulations. i understand the amish rely on game as a major food source, i just hope things dont get slowed up.

ORIGINAL: bingsbaits

I got good money that says if they were to invade the walleye grounds on Erie and some of you fellas got a taste of your honey hole gettin raped you might not have as much respect for their legal harvest practices...

 
Go stand at Conneaut Ohio Boat ramps for a day....They are there in full force.......

IMAO... That would be one hella of a fight

ORIGINAL: Mountian Man

Well, you can always send them to Highland Park

Oh no you DIDN'T!

I just have one nagging question: in places other than Pymy, like KPD, where limits and size minimums DO apply...WHY aren't they being cited? It would soon get far more expensive than doing things the legal way, in spite of the free fish. If the WCOs just 'let them go' even though they're doing things illegal, there needs to be more attention brought to the matter. Like several have stated, we all pay for licenses, and part of the understanding is that if you fish the state's water, you play by their rules. If they're doing the former, and not the latter, they need to be taken to task for it, not pitied because "the amish community is going through a tough time". Check the market data, nobody is exactly having a boom period right now.

Nobody forces them to live the way they do. Its a choice. If my religion refuses to live with the modern convenience of a credit card, does that mean we can write the store an I.O.U. and take whatever we like? No, of course not. You cant just take what you want from society and ignore the things that dont benefit you directly.

Itd be interesting, though, to see the amish and the russians get in a battle royale in the walnut parking lot over the stopsign hole! It'd be like braveheart meets the fight scene from anchorman.