grand bayou weirs

[jdunbar]

can you go back there at night? Or is this one of the places where you have to wait for daylight?

[Smalls]

Pretty sure the enture area closes at sundown.

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[cduhon]

Originally Posted by jdunbar

can you go back there at night? Or is this one of the places where you have to wait for daylight?

Cannot go in before sunrise and gotta be out before sunset

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[WildPig911]

http://www.fws.gov/southeast/pubs/SWLAcomplex_Fish.pdf

Boat admittance into the refuge is permitted from one hour before legal sunrise until one hour after legal sunset; however, recreational fishing, crabbing, and cast netting activities are prohibited until legal sunrise and after legal sunset.

[jdunbar]

thanks for that link, been lookin for something like that

["W"]

You can if you like prison time!!!


Also during the shrimp run they had 3 undercovers that were sitting on the bank and wrote about 35 tickets in a week for people throwing castnets, fishing lines and crab lines in water before legal sunrise

[redroaster]

how you get back there..i saw couple of boats killing the redfish and nice trout on the marsh side while we were sucking on the lake side
passage only through lamberts?

[jchief]

Boat passage is at Grand Bayou only.

[redroaster]

what is the name of the first wier from heberts?

[YellowMouth7]

buddies went Friday afternoon and stayed back there after dark some time before midnight a LDWF officer walked out on the wier and told them to come back through the wier to the lake and get their ticket. Tide was pulling hard from the marsh into the lake and when they approched the wier to exit the marsh the motor died and the current pulled them sideways pining them against the wier. the current was so strong it actually pulled the boat under the water. they were able to climb up onto the wier and hang out with the LDWF agent until the tide slacked enough for them to drag the boat through and pump out the water........BAD DEAL.........................so lesson here dont go back there after dark, dont let others drive your boat, ware your life jacket. everyine was ok but he lost his 4 stroke, 3 rods and reels a yeti and a K2, and a good nights sleep. He gained a valuable lesson and a ticket.

So if anyone finds a yeti floating around in the lake, it has an 8lb trout in it they were going to weigh in for the star :-)

TB

[YellowMouth7]

BTW let me know if yall find his icechest

[Lake Chuck Duck]

I wonder if since they were fishing illegally, their fish would have been confiscated, including the 8#.

[cduhon]

Originally Posted by Lake Chuck Duck

I wonder if since they were fishing illegally, their fish would have been confiscated, including the 8#.

Fish could not have been weighed into the STAR tournament since it was caught illegally. Would have been disqualified

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[Duck Butter]

That sucks man, glad they made it out alright though


on a lighter note:

that trout will be fine for upwards of a month if that Yeti was pre-chilled and the ice was frozen from inside out

[1fastmerc]

Originally Posted by YellowMouth7

buddies went Friday afternoon and stayed back there after dark some time before midnight a LDWF officer walked out on the wier and told them to come back through the wier to the lake and get their ticket. Tide was pulling hard from the marsh into the lake and when they approched the wier to exit the marsh the motor died and the current pulled them sideways pining them against the wier. the current was so strong it actually pulled the boat under the water. they were able to climb up onto the wier and hang out with the LDWF agent until the tide slacked enough for them to drag the boat through and pump out the water........BAD DEAL.........................so lesson here dont go back there after dark, dont let others drive your boat, ware your life jacket. everyine was ok but he lost his 4 stroke, 3 rods and reels a yeti and a K2, and a good nights sleep. He gained a valuable lesson and a ticket.

So if anyone finds a yeti floating around in the lake, it has an 8lb trout in it they were going to weigh in for the star :-)

TB

There seems to be a lot of wrong in this story. Glad everybody was ok though.


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[YellowMouth7]

So since the fish was caught with plenty of daylight left it would be illegal?

[cduhon]

Originally Posted by YellowMouth7

So since the fish was caught with plenty of daylight left it would be illegal?

Chances are if boat wouldn't have sank, then game wardens would have confiscated fish, crabs or shrimp leaving the weirs since boat was back there illegally after dark. If you catch shrimp or crabs over limit behind weirs they confiscate both. Would of been hard to prove fish was caught with daylight left when warden busted boat many hours after daylight. Would have been interesting scenerio. STAR rules state all participants and fish must comply with rules and regulations of state governing body. Since your buddy was ticketed illegally behind a restricted area it would have been interesting.

And Dink- fish has to be hooked by angler on conventional rod, hook and line exclusively, doubt hooking the chest would qualify.



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["W"]

Originally Posted by YellowMouth7

So since the fish was caught with plenty of daylight left it would be illegal?

As stated yes it is still a illegal fish because once you break the sundown mark everything becomes illegal
As stated it would of been taken and probably another ticket for taking fish after sundown

[redaddiction]

I guess in America, You're no longer innocent until proven guilty. Do the wardens just say it was caught after dark and it is so? They have no proof either way

[Top Dawg]

I bet the skeeters was bad