Gill netting on Wab

Jaymann · #1 01-16-2018, 05:30 PM

So, we were out on wabamun today and saw a bunch of guys putting a gill net down the hole. Is this legal even if you're a treaty member? The guys weren't from around the lake they were asking about where to fish. Cause the regs do say no fish can be kept. Pretty sure they weren't going to catch and release.

needmoretoys · #2 01-16-2018, 05:42 PM

Call it in and let the power to be decide if this is correct or not. Most nets are left in for a day or more, so they should be able to find it. It should also be marked with the owners info.

Jaymann · #3 01-16-2018, 05:53 PM

Thanks. Doing it now.

pikeman06 · #4 01-16-2018, 08:49 PM

I honestly know some of the natives out there and when the walleyes took over and ruined the pike fishery and whitefish they said they just waiting till they big enough to get their heads in the mesh then they were gonna net the buggers out so they could help the whitefish out. No b.s.

Kim473 · #5 01-17-2018, 06:06 AM

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Originally Posted by needmoretoys

Call it in and let the power to be decide if this is correct or not. Most nets are left in for a day or more, so they should be able to find it. It should also be marked with the owners info.

This

1bluZebec · #6 01-16-2018, 08:58 PM

Lol maybe they will sit their catches

that's great

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Red Neck · #7 01-17-2018, 10:45 AM

The lake has really changed last 2 years and the mesh size should show what they are targeting? But would really like to be there when it got pulled? just to see how many of what speices the do cath? No matter who you are, just me but no nets!!!! in a closed lake?? I hope Jaymann has sucsess with the powers that be??
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NSR Fisher · #8 01-17-2018, 12:24 PM

I remember someone posting here a few weeks ago that he had spoken with the local band and that they were hoping to pull walleye this winter.

I don't hear about guys hauling in the whites like the old days anymore so I highly doubt they are netting the lake for those.

Lowrance Fishburn · #9 01-17-2018, 12:31 PM

Netting is total BS this day and age and should be outlawed altogether.

JDK71 · #10 01-17-2018, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Lowrance Fishburn

Netting is total BS this day and age and should be outlawed altogether.

with you on that

CPT_420 · #11 01-17-2018, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Lowrance Fishburn

Netting is total BS this day and age and should be outlawed altogether.

I agree, unless its useless stunted walleye that have completely ruined a great lake that are being targeted, in which case I fully support it. Fill the whole lake with nets IMO

The Spank · #12 01-17-2018, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Lowrance Fishburn

Netting is total BS this day and age and should be outlawed altogether.

Agreed! Actually my feelings are stuff them down the hole with their nets.

Supergrit · #13 01-17-2018, 05:28 PM

Now the nets are going to pull out what little big walleyes are in the lake and the stunted small ones will pass through the mesh and survive.

RavYak · #14 01-18-2018, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Lowrance Fishburn

Netting is total BS this day and age and should be outlawed altogether.

At the recent information session they made it clear that native rights come before anglers. If and when it comes to the point where the two can't coexist it will be anglers that get the shaft.

In regards to the netting on Wab, I hope they net half the lake empty... It would speed up the recovery process immensely.

NSR Fisher · #15 01-18-2018, 06:08 PM

Yeah i don't mind the local native's netting Wab for walleye. It will actually lead to bigger walleye and pike, imagine how much more food there will be for the fish that survive the winter.

I wonder if the powers that be plan on re-populating the whitefish in Wabamun now that the hot water effluent is shut down and they could spawn properly. Imagine how big the pike would get with a thinned out walleye population and a healthy population of whites? Probably the best bet at getting anything close to the old days.

buckmaster · #16 01-17-2018, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by NSR Fisher

I remember someone posting here a few weeks ago that he had spoken with the local band and that they were hoping to pull walleye this winter.

I don't hear about guys hauling in the whites like the old days anymore so I highly doubt they are netting the lake for those.

commercial netting has been shut down in Alberta for quite a few years now. Exception of subsistence netting.