Gill Nets

[Jo-boater]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

Gill nets are only ILlegal in a few freshwater areas, not sure about Fausse Point. You have to have a commercial license to use them and the webbing has to be a certain size. It is ILLEGAL to destroy them on purpose. Thats like running someones crab traps or crawfish nets or destroying them actually.

Thanks for all the info. And to ease everyone's mind, I put holes in the parts that tangled around my equipment and left his fish in the net. The troll motor and engine weren't running at the time, the wind had actually blew into the net after we discovered what the spinnerbait was hung in. Kind of a small problem got potentially worse situation. His net and fish are still there in one piece today.