I have heard that a smoked fish can go for 120.00 on the streets of New York

I watched a car at Trout Run years back about 5 am. still dark, pull up, a guy got out with a large handled net, run upstream and made a scoop and ran back with 3-4 fish in the net.
He tossed them into a cooler slammed the truck closed and they took off all in about 3 minutes ! 
I couldn't tell you what the car was in the dark let alone a license plate it was that fast !
 
No doubt with a lookout parked up the road at 3 am. those professional poachers could wreck havoc on those fish in 20 minutes ! And probably have once the fishing traffic slows down............pitiful.

"Come on over here kid, I got a kilo of home smoked Erie fish just for you, remember you don't know where you got this" !

genieman77

rmcmillen09
I have heard that a smoked fish can go for 120.00 on the streets of New York

 
heard from whom??
 
don't they have legal  fish markets in NY??
 
..L.T.A.

A Fish cop told my wife and me this down at walnut access a few years back , when we were watching the circus at the stop sign hole. We were talking about the people who had a bunch of steelhead hidden along the stream that got caught. 

rmcmillen09
 


A Fish cop told my wife and me this down at walnut access a few years back ,

 
interesting..thanks
I don't know any fish cops
But I know a lot of regular cops
Shoot with 'em  in competition and have taken  advanced combative handgun   classes with them .
I know a bunch,  associate with many (some have been to my training classes) ...
and a few cops i call friends  
 
I only mention the above to suggest I'm not a cop basher
cause i'm about to say.....you can't believe everything you hear  just because it came  from a cop 
 
one the other hand.....Maybe that fish cop does indeed know people in NY dumb enough to pay  $120 for one of  Poor Richard's secret sauce fish...but I'm a tad a skeptical  no matter HOW dee-lish-uss PR's fish are
 
 

 
 

 
 
..L.T.A.
 

Fall 2015 fishing oak orchard .. got bored down stream so went up to the snagging wall trying to drift beads close for browns .. same two ppl drifting egg sacs days in a row .. mid wall .. last day they started talking to me said they were local and asked if I needed money .. was curious so I inquired as to how I'd get it .. said take salmon to Medina walk up to closest black person and sell em .. now I'm not trying to sound racist , these are their words not mine .. but I imagine several locals up there make bank from anybody willing to buy those nasty things ..

Russians suck
 
make em eat dem fish
 
 

properly smoked trout or salmon are delish on Ritz crackers with cheese AND good whiskey to clean the pallete . IF you will provide the fish, i,ll guarantee to provide the crowd to partake of it. wire     

Panther99
Russians suck make em eat dem fish  

Next time you are running the highways and byways, of our great nation on your way to your favorite fishin' hole, give some serious thought as to who is driving the 'big truck' that just "blew your doors off".

Smallsac
I figure the truck with the hammer down must've been a Russian with several coolers full trying to get back to NY before they spoil...  lol j/k

10-4.... probably pulling the same wagon "they" used to haul a load of garbage from NYC to Poland then pick-up a load of nasty fish back to NYC and I doubt there is coolers.


Yummy lol.

Or could just be a bob tailin', gear grindin', jake brakin' blurry eyed b.stard trying to avoid being a yard jockey...

Smallsac
Or could just be a bob tailin', gear grindin', jake brakin' blurry eyed b.stard trying to avoid being a yard jockey...

That is a Jockey 10-4?


I know.... I know..... wrong thread. lol

We be gone!

I ran into a foreigner...assuming Russian...an hour or so before daylight on 16 Mile last year. He hustled past a buddy and I and went to the stream bank where he grabbed a large sack and disappeared down stream. I wasn't aware of these night time activities at the time or I would of definitely stopped him. So it's definitely happening in Pa waters! 

Oh it happens in PA, has been for years. A dear ole friend of these boards, Doccy Do Nuffin, a.k.a Grendel, then a DWCO was involved in a large case on Walnut one evening 10+ years back.  The details escape me, but a number of suspects were apprehended with many fish in burlap bags. There was also case that involved individuals pitch forking fish and chucking them in 55 gallon drums.
 
PT2
 
 

 Home >  Sports >  OutdoorsPoachers get hooked in steelhead haul
Sunday, October 27, 2002
By Deborah Weisberg
Three Parma, Ohio, men were caught poaching steelhead Monday night.
They netted 53 fish weighing more than 300 pounds -- landing, in the process, $5,000 in fines.
The men -- Anatoliy Zozulya, 40; Eugeniusz Sroka, 43; and Vladimir Yewtukh, 48 -- apparently took advantage of streams deserted by Steelers fans, but didn't count on state waterways conservation officers to be on patrol.
At about the time of the Steelers kickoff, WCO Mark Kerr and deputy Mark McSkimming were walking through the woods, upstream of the Manchester Hole, when they spotted three individuals netting fish at the chutes just above the hole, according to John Bowser, the WCO in charge of Erie, whom Kerr alerted at home. "When Kerr and McSkimming approached the suspects and turned on their flashlights, the three fled. As they ran up a steep hill, one slipped and fell, enabling the officers to apprehend him and take him into custody at the Walnut Creek access area. The others got away."
"Past experience told me where their car might be parked, and that, when you find the car, you'll eventually find the suspects," said Bowser, who ordered deputies to the Manchester Nursing Home parking lot, about a half-mile south of the Walnut access center, where they saw a suspicious vehicle. "State police gave us the owner's name."
While two deputies kept watch on the car, Bowser and deputies Duane English and Randy Leighton circled the area, and saw two men in chest waders -- without rods. "I called out the name of the guy the car was registered to. I knew I had them when they turned around."
They, too, were taken to the Walnut access center. But Bowser and his deputies still had to find the evidence. "Officer Kerr returned to the chutes and uncovered 25 fish on one stringer," said Bowser, who went back to the site the next morning and found another stringer with 28 more.
Seventeen of the fish were trophy-size steelhead. Two-thirds were female. Chinook salmon were among them. "Any angler would have been thrilled to catch any three," said Bowser.
All of the fish had been netted. Two of the men were unlicensed. In all, 22 citations were issued. They have 30 days to pay the $5,000 in fines, request a hearing or face a summons, said Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission spokesman Dan Tredinnick. "We're not talking out-of-town parking tickets. This is serious business."
The fish were taken to Poor Richard's Bait and Tackle, where Gary Heubel cleaned and smoked them for free. Bowser plans to donate them to property owners as a gesture of thanks for their keeping their land un-posted, despite crowds of anglers who don't always practice responsible behavior.
 
 
 
this is nothing new.  people are naïve to think different..  Poachers come in all types..  Burlap bags or Loomis rods.  Back in the mid 90's and beyond the people in this article were no worse than the groups of 3-4 guys who would take their 3 fish limit then come back in evening to take more.   seen it too many times....