Nets

or should i better say what are the flags out there i guess i dont really know if nets are under them

Trying to grow enough hair to dare try the BIG lake I found wander's question to be of interest. So me being me I thought it might be a good idea, before getting tangled up in such a device, I should do some research on this important matter.

Having found such information and me being me, I felt it would be a nice gesture on my part (me being me) to share what I found.


PS. No thanks necessary except to wander for bringing, this matter to light.


Addendum:

Forgot. Dam old timers.

http://www.fishlakeerie.c./reports/trapnets-pa.htm

workcanwait....
 BTDT they are in high traffic area and poorly marked by faded flag and some"buoys" so be  careful...WCW

Thank you WCW I been trying to get up to PI for a look see and eventually get my feet wet in the bay. Be
my luck the lake would be calm and I'd get brave, and end up tangled in one of those nets. 😳

Stupid nets.....

I've actually stopped trolling for eyes,and went over and watched them wench up the nets. Everything in them,perch,eyes,goats,and surprisingly tons of huge suckers. They net perch but there allowed X amount of eyes. Goes by poundage. Back in the early 80's one netter told me he was allowed 20,000 lbs of eyes. I'm glad he was perch fishing.lol

and also what happened to the erie stamp paying the commercial fishermen to quit don't understand was always told that was what it was for

I don't know what the stamp money goes for. Don't know if it is just the trout or both stamps but last I read the money goes into the general coffers. From there the money can, I believe be used for whatever. Including SOS, but I shall stand corrected.

Also, if hooking a net with fishing gear, you cut your line. you are not to pull the nets.

In addition if you, have my luck, get tangled in a net you are to call the coast guard.

Dam.... maybe I should stay home.

Those net markers are near impossible to see until you're right on top of them. I've nearly run my gear through them three or four times this year trolling off the point because the buoys are so tiny. Thankfully I only run a 2-4 rod spread and can turn on a dime, it's got to be h**l maneuvering around those things for the guys that run 8-12+ rods.

Yeah, the LE stamp was to subsidize the losses the commercial fishermen suffered when gill nets were finally banned, that program was supposed to last either 3 or 5 years, can't remember which.  I think we're down to only 1 commercial fisherman now, aren't we?  I thought Mathers got out of the game after getting popped a few times for slipping gill nets into his spread, and the other is going to be Bubba's boyfriend on death row.  Pees me off if Lake Erie Stamp monies are being used throughout the state, it was all to stay right here for Lake Erie programs.  Heaven forbid if Pennsylvania's pellet-head stocking has to suffer.  Trout meat is supposed to be pink/orange, not that nasty white color out of the hatchery.  When I fished the streams, I'd hike back for miles on my 2 favorites before even casting a line and catch big holdovers who's meat had returned to the color it's supposed to be.  Fine eating right there.  

Just like a new tax, almost never repealed, once it is started.  Many toll roads or bridges start out as " temporary," esp. in other states, to pay for the infrastructure but, they never, ever go away. 
 
Back in the day, you used to get a little sticker to put on your license for the Erie stamp.

Remember reading that the commercial fisherman who killed his wife story was he was sick and went out to clean the rotting fish from his nets because he was sick earlier in the week and she must have fell over board when he wasn't looking. Now I have read on the Ohiogamefishing website where there have been fishermen out on the lake coming across large amounts of dead perch floating near the commercial fishing nets.Makes me wonder if these people should be out there at all. The story a couple weeks back in the Erie Times featuring a commercial fisherman who,s boat could not go out unless the waves were two feet or less ! How many fish are just pulled out of the nets and discarded after a few days of not being able to tend their nets? The quota they can fill is not counted into the dead loss so how many fish are just being wasted. Not very good management 

crawlerman2
I wonder if the lack of gill nets, which increased the walleye, is the reason for the lack of steelhead return. 
 
 

crawlerman2 While I believe that the increased walleye have done a number on the steelhead, it maybe an interesting fact that the gill net restriction caused it.  Someone else on here said the same idea about when the walleye were abnormally high, the steelhead decrease, and when the walleye were down (in the early 2000's) the steelhead fishery was abnormally high. 

Meatball
lake fishermen who don't give a ****e about steelhead are paying for easements. Go figure. Steelhead numbers are down. Geez, no kidding. Look how many hungry walleye are around. They LOVE young nutritious oily steelhead. What else is there for them to eat?

Well... i guess the steelhead stockings that lake fishermen don’t care about are doing wonders for the walleye fishing huh?