Please do not believe all the lies about the gillnets. In the right hands they are a safe way to harvest fish without catching the juvenile fish. READ MY CHANNEL INFO. LOOK AT MY VID ABOUT OIL DRILLING IN FLORIDA
My grandpa gill-netted for over fifty years in the gulf and there were many times we went too. He always fished legal and didn’t allow no funny business. He was well respected in the fishing community and the wardens never bothered him. If he saw someone doing wrong on another boat he would call them on it. He was short in stature but had a big heart. Fried and smoked mullet were a staple for us every summer.
Hey Reaper, I'm a gillnet, crab, shrimp, and prawn COMMERCIAL fisherman from the west coast, Alaska, puget sound, Pacific ocean! They are pulling the same bullshit over here! They've been trying to get rid of us for years, I remember picketing at the Capital a few times and they just tell us basically get f****d! Now they are deciding that the Sport fisherman deserve to have a good time instead of us feeding our wives,kids,grandkids,greatgrandkids! Its disgusting and like you said the way things go, we will be feeding them someday,obviously with the amount of fish purchased we're already feeding millions of them! Keep on going man I was out gillnetting last night for silver salmon AKA coho! Trying to make enough so my dog can have ACL surgery! NOT CHEAP!
I started fishing with a family friend who was 4th generation Cortez Florida Commercial fisherman. My first time on his 30' Morgan launch the "Miss Linda" I was 8. His father was one of the first "Sheriff's" on Bradenton beach or Anna Maria Isl. Florida. I lived with him and his family and fishing in the summer. Graduated in 1988 and moved back to Bradenton and became active with "OFF" went to every "Ban the Nets" meeting and eventually it just couldn't be stopped and the ban went into effect. He went to work for the county. I began Purse seining bait, Long Lining for grouper. I fell in love with Grouper Digging and My girlfriend at the time was Miss Karen Bell. She introduced me too my first Charter Guy and we had a great time developing his boat. Charter guys hated me because I was a commercial guy and commercial guys didn't like me associating with "Sporties" I have 40 years on that water and it's funny the fish still aren't jumping in any ones boats proving the "Bio~Mass of mullet could and had been a sustainable fishery since late 1870's. Piece of crap "FCA" now CCA why not talk about Red tide or Okeechobee run off affecting Ft. Myers Beach. instead of fighting about who catches more fish ~ well ok stop nets but keep destroying Estuaries and building seawalls. only report the data that supports "your" agenda. Damn politics kept me from being a 5th generation Gillnetter from Cortez.
I will always fish wit a net. I fish trout and red fish the hell with the laws I follow the laws of the bible and if they can fish wit a ten thousand foot sein I can fish wit a 300 ft gill net to all commercial fishermen dont let the crooked politicians dictate how you make a living the Lord said cast your net and not your pole
To all you sport fishermen you had better learn to appreciate the commercial fisherman cause the way the country is going your children will probably have to eat out of a commercial fishermans gill net
We are all in this fight together we have got to do what we need to do to make a living you sport fisherman that are against us wake up and smell the coffee there is a good chance with the way the country is going the commercial fisherman will feed your kids with a gill net
