Originally Posted by Pat Babaz (Post 520121)

Thanks for the explanation on why central was left plugged, that does make some sense. As far as wasting money, the Hog was closed for a long time after Ike due to damaged docks and I was told by a federal game warden that they had recieved the money to fix them, but the stimulus had just passed and they were waiting on that money to fix it because those docks were one of Obama's shovel ready projects he was touting, to me thats double dipping. As far as the cast netting, I do blame the trashy people, but I also think the game wardens did not even try to write littering tickets and enforce the law. They took the easy way out and just shut it down for everyone over a few bad apples.

Originally Posted by Spunt Drag (Post 520173)

True, but that all comes down to not having a budget for enforcement. It's much easier and cheaper to just shut all castnetting down than to try and police the dock or do surveillance and catch a few bad apples in the act.