Originally Posted by
dwaw
ne allows only 2 poles per fisherman. 2 hooks per pole. can't spider rig that way. spider rigging is an addictive, fun way to fish crappie. what i don't understand is: game and parks sets the limit; so what difference does it make how many poles you use to try to catch your legal limit. most people don't catch their limit anyway, even spider rigging. y'all oughta start prompting g&p to air out their thinking some.
I guess in the traditional sense of spiderigging, no a person fishing Nebraska waters may only use two poles, but I typically have both of those rods set in a traditional t-bar rod holder and push my baits. I guess this seems to me like tightlining, but no we don’t have 8 or 12 hanging off the front. Its nice when two of us are fishing then of course we have 4 rods spread out on the bow.
Iowa has just changed their regs to allow anglers to purchase a 3rd pole permit. Kansas also has this permit available. I’m pushing for this baby step here in Nebraska hopefully the commissioners here my voice.
As some insight, the regulation for two poles here in Nebraska is an ethics rule and not a biological regulation. This statue is meant to provide some kind of spreading out of the harvest so to speak and make the harvest itself ethical. As you and I both know the old saying of 10% of the fisherman catch 100% of the fish, that means, yes no matter how many rods you constrict good anglers too, they’re going to get their limit. These ethical fish and wildlife regulations have and always will have debate and I don’t know if anyone can say that they are always “right” or “wrong”. Very good debate dwaw and this is something all fishermen should discuss time to time.
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