Reply With QuoteThank you for the info.I know we and I mean a lot fisherman would rip gill nets and toss them in the trash back in the 70's and 80's
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URGENT..........Alabama HB258 to allow gill nets in the Tennessee River and her lakes
Ok fishermen and friends......Time is short and your action is VERY important as there is a Bill before the Alabama Senate, HB 258, that will allow gill nets to be used in the Tennessee River and our awesome lake(actually all the lakes on the TN River in Alabama). If you remember when our crappie population was real low in the 70s and 80s it was due to the use of gill nets. Lots of other game fish also saw their numbers decline because of the nets used by commercial fishermen. I don't know the year but at some point the nets were made illegal to use and we've seen a very healthy increase in our crappie and bass populations. If the nets are allowed to return we'll see our crappie and bass populations decimated. BASS tournaments will see the impact and the money that they bring in will decrease. These commercial fishermen that use gill nets can't be monitored 24/7 and game fish are legally bought/sold in neighboring states even though they can't be sold, legally, in Alabama. They bring good money in these other states and this WILL happen if WE don't stop the bill from becoming law.
Lynn Greer from legislative District 2, Limestone/Lauderdale Counties sponsored HB258 and it passed the Alabama House. He does not have anybody's best interest at heart but his own although I have not yet found the money trail. We MUST stop it in the senate.
I have contacted Senator Schofield and Mayor Dollar in hopes that HB258 can be stopped.
If Bentley closes our state park and gill nets become legal to use in our lake, Guntersville will be changed in a very bad way.
I urge all of you to call and email Senator Schofield and Mayor Dollar and and the other mayors and politicians that represent areas on the TN River to make your opposition to HB258 known.
Contact Senator Schofield here...
http://www.legislature.state.al.us/aliswww/Senator.aspx…
And Mayor Dollar here....
The City of Guntersville, Alabama - Mayor & City Council
256-571-7560
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Thank you for the info.I know we and I mean a lot fisherman would rip gill nets and toss them in the trash back in the 70's and 80's
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It would be a crying shame.
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I had hoped for more response to this post but as long as y'all contact the people that can stop HB258 the replies on here don't matter. In my gut though I feel like everybody is sitting back and depending on somebody else to carry the water. If so we only have ourselves to blame when catching a 12inch crappie becomes a thing of the past.
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This is true. Scary stuff.
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Guys we have them here at and Below Pickwick Dam. Do I like them? No but will not mess with there nets. Would not want anyone to screw with my boat. And its no different when someone is doing something legal and you mess up there nets.. I agree make it where they can't fish them. But don't mess with the mans way of making a living. As you may be the one that gets shot by an old man that feels your stealing his boat. Think how you would feel to come up on someone staling stuff out of your boat?
Hope you can stop it there in Al and hope we can stop it in Tn. But its legal here so they have the right to fish them for now.
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ShilohRed,
Thanks for the input. I hope they don't change the law, but I agree with you. I've always told my kids that a man doesn't pick and choose which laws he follows. If the law passes and you don't like it, then help chance your reprehensive.
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IF you need Email addresses I have all of the Alabama Senators I have written 3 emails already to each and every one I can find an email address.
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I did see a giant shovel Bill Catfish in a gillnet over at the state park in Guntersville maybe it was a sturgeon ,I know they are all just about gone from this area.New Hope at the old Buddy Vanes bait store in the 70's with my dad listening commercial fisherman talking about selling game fish up in Indiana. When we would fish channel ledges we would from time to time lose a pole or break off several times while drifting channels running into nets.
If they would keep the nets in the main river channels that would be less of a problem.Now if you put gillnets in a place like Bellefont were Jack likes to fish and me too it would wipe that area out.
