|
08-17-2013, 06:15 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 4
|
|
Sad Find On the Bow Today
I was fishing on the Bow River today by Fish Creek Park (By Lafarge) and was shocked to see this.
Heavy line baited with 2 large barbed hooks baited with smelts submerged and anchored by a big rock. I would have never noticed it if the poor bird wasn't hooked and desperately trying to get loose. I was able to cast my spinner towards the line and bring the bird to shore. To my amazement the bird was calm and did not make any move until I was able to cut the hook and set it free. After destroying the guy's setup I called Fish and Wildlife and showed them the spot and rig the guy was using.
It is sad to see that people will go to such means to catch a fish when they can buy one for $10 that tastes way better.
I'm posting this so those of us who fish that section on the river will keep their eyes for suspicious activities.
|
08-17-2013, 06:23 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Fort Saskatchewan Ab
Posts: 8,926
|
|
Sickening , some People's kids .
|
08-17-2013, 06:28 PM
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: on a mishn for fishn.
Posts: 8,790
|
|
Thank you sir for outstanding effort , freeing the snagged bird and following thru by reporting the poacher rigged set line. Cheers to you.
|
08-17-2013, 06:36 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2010
Location: edmonton
Posts: 3,835
|
|
put a bear trap in that spot, might get lucky @ night when the *****hole go retrieve his fish .
|
08-17-2013, 06:36 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Medicine Hat
Posts: 2,015
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by fish gunner
Thank you sir for outstanding effort , freeing the snagged bird and following thru by reporting the poacher rigged set line. Cheers to you.
|
Big Fat X2!
Hats off, well done.
|
08-17-2013, 06:48 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 1,484
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by fish gunner
Thank you sir for outstanding effort , freeing the snagged bird and following thru by reporting the poacher rigged set line. Cheers to you.
|
X3.... Sad what some people do. A couple years ago i found something similar onanother river but it had a dead Bull Trout on it...
|
08-17-2013, 06:52 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Look behind you :)
Posts: 27,775
|
|
Nice work!
Someone should set up a trailcam in the area and get pics of the guy when he comes to check his setup.
LC
__________________
|
08-17-2013, 07:06 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 469
|
|
Great work and hats off to you !! May the fish gods be good to you. Alberta has to get way tougher on these ****heads. Lock them up I say.
|
08-17-2013, 07:10 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Calgary
Posts: 3,816
|
|
Some people make me sick, good job!!
|
08-17-2013, 07:26 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 1,692
|
|
Unbelievable
It's hard to believe some total a___hole would have the gaul to do that right in the City (?). Thank you for taking it out and reporting it. I wonder if bozo was trying to catch a fish or the bird? My solution though - put a couple of store-boughts on the hooks (Tilapia - someone that ignorant won't know that there are no such in the Bow), after injecting them with a quantity of ....(pick your poison)... and put it back. Not so much, I guess, because bozo may have kids - scary thought if he is bringing them up that way (?). Makes one wonder how much of this sort of thing is going undetected.
|
08-17-2013, 07:41 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Alberta
Posts: 1,731
|
|
You have my respect that was a good thing you did the bird has a chance. Its Unfortunate someone broke the rules and it resulted in that. Definitely bugs me.
|
08-17-2013, 07:43 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 4
|
|
Thanks, I was just in the right place at the right time. Although I spent 3 hours without a single bite, saving this bird made my day. I just wish F&W catch this guy in the act.
|
08-17-2013, 10:28 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 1,593
|
|
good going man on helping the little guy out. myself and a buddy (adam) from lomond did the same thing only this was on travers and a rather huge fiesty pelican. we chased the pelican clean across the lake with the boat and caught it with a huge fishing net. then adam screams at me grab the beak grab the beak as i unarmed and now jousting with the darn thing till i grabbed the beak, removed all the line and sinkers and cut one line close to his throat because he swallowed one of the hooks. we figure we gave it a fighting chance. hope he survived. but this was a snagged and broken off line near the shore not a deliberate set up to poach.
|
08-17-2013, 11:05 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 3,269
|
|
Nice save!
|
08-17-2013, 11:34 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Calgary
Posts: 4,083
|
|
good on you for saving the grebe , at least it looks like one? I've also found and dismantled set lines . Luckily there was nothing in the ones we found
|
08-18-2013, 07:09 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 2,100
|
|
Great Job. Hope the CO's can stake out the area and catch the guy.
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 03:53 PM.
|