A couple in Minnesota were busted earlier this year for having 253 crappies over the limit (you’re permitted 10 per person). Game officials received an anonymous tip from another angler that a group of individuals had tied into some crappies on Lake Sisseton and kept upwards of 100 fish. “The man was identified as Isouvahn Xayachack, 70, of Mountain Lake [I’m guessing Laotian, Hmong] with his wife, 60-year-old Chanhthone Phongsim.” More
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Stupid rule u can only have 10 per Fisherman in the freezer too doesnt make sense to me. I get a limit on the water. Id be screwed
That’s pronounced “croppy,” not “crappy,” so my Iowa grandpa told me.
I’ve got a few thousand down in the pond. They are just fodder for my LMB here though.
LMB? Liga Mexicana de Beisbol? Laboratory of Molecular Biology? Left Mouse Button? Low Maintenance Battery? League of Michigan Bicyclists?
LOL @ Uncle Al.
Large Mouth Bassist?
It’s a school, not a band, right?
@ Burner- I knew one of those once. SOB took my girl, he did.
Good eatin’. Down here we have the similar Atomic Sunfish, an invasive from S. America. No limit on them. Caught several but ain’t ate one yet.
IL no size or number limit. You can make a first class pigs of yourself if you get into them.
Actually found them great as bait for Mr. Flathead that I’ve wrestled with up to around a hundred pounds. When I was young and stupid I “noodled” for them. I’ll send Mr.big a picture to back up my claims. After losing the skin and some flesh of a couple of fingers I stopped playing that game. Not to mention that there’s big snapping turtles and sometimes snakes to contend with… Again, young and STUPID!
Some of the turtles we caught could have taken a hand off. But that’s another story altogether. Aligator snapping turtles that I have no idea on weight but as big around as an old galvanized wash tub that probably held 15 gallons or more. Scary critters when they get to that size…
Ah the stories…
From Boobie:”That’s pronounced “croppy,” not “crappy,” so my Iowa grandpa told me.”
We may not laugh out loud at hearing that here (Georgia), but we will roll our eyes when you ain’t looking.
Hmong or Laotian because they take everything no matter what it is. They caught a ring of them here. I happened on them one day walking (I knew what they were doing). There were 10 of them lined up on the lakes edge fishing. I asked the one who had just caught a big mouth bass that was maybe 5 inches long what length it was and did he know the legal length to keep it. “I keep everything!” I said well look up there in the parking lot, see that guy with the binoculars? He’s the game warden and he coming down here to pay all of you a visit. There was a car parked there with buckets in the trunk filled with fish. I walked off a ways but watched the ordeal. The warden was waiting for back up (Sheriff). The warden confiscated their equipment and when backup showed up, they were all arrested. The Hmongs and Laotians trap and steal everything from duck eggs to squirrels. Citizens turn them in, they are not liked in our community. They took care of the packs of dogs running wild on the cattle ranches. Ranchers were happy.
P.S. The Hmong poachers were taking the fish to Oakland, CA to the Chinese restaurants and selling the fish.
Goldenfoxx
Speaking from personal experience, within the last several years I would see families of boat people lining the banks of rivers that I would go to fish.
They would fish with illegal methods, they did not respect creel or length limits, or protected species.
Then one day a game warden rounded everyone up and I have seen any of them since then.
Now we’re just overrun with Mexicans who trash the shore lines with Modelo cans, mexican snack bags and other general filth.
Last year, I arrived one morning around 4:30 am at a spot that I go to and saw a car was already there. A car – no big deal. Round the corner and there are maybe 8 Mexicans who’ve been up partying all night. One laying face down on the ground that I know has been covered in mud, feet and fish guts at some point.
Noped right the fuck out of there.
When the Hmong first arrived here some of them flooded the basements with water and kept carp in it for later eating.
In Minneapolis back in the 70’s Hmong would crap in the back yard because they’d never seen a toilet before, some were seen in public restrooms crapping in the urinals. The county/state had to send people in to train them, but you know most of them love America especially the ones that came over initially, the next generation not so much.
Anymouse, You noodled!? You crazy! lol. I’ve never done that but I’ve seen video. Yikes!
That’s kind of bs how many they can keep in their freezer and not anything I’ve ever heard of before. Around here you have a limit on game fish, but it’s a daily limit, not a season limit and you have to be caught in the act with over your daily limit.
Fishing laws can be very confusing in my state because certain lakes have different size limits and daily limits, so you have to know the rules for almost every lake if you fish a lot of different lakes.
If you think about it you’re not too free when you have to buy a license to fish and then told how many you can keep and what size they must be.
On the other side of that coin though is the idiots who will catch and keep hundreds damaging the fish population.