Carp nets in Jonathan Creek

As much as I support the commercial fishermen and their efforts to kill the last Asian carp, I was an unhappy camper today when my trolling motor tangled in a net. There was a low-profile marker like bass fishermen use that was no more than 6 inches square about 40 feet from the bank. I looked all over for another marker on the deep side but found none. I was at least 50 yards from the bank in 10 feet of water when I heard myTerrova hit it. I shut it off and was
able to untangle. No damage to either party.

I saw the second one on side scan just before it ate 4 jig rigs. The markers were the same.

This is ridiculous. I can imagine lots of folks aren’t going to be as understanding. Mark the nets!! period!!


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Hopefully the new regulations will pass and the new flags will be required starting later this year.

Wade White of Lyon Co posted a video the other day of the new flags. Here's a picture from it:

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Right now they are voluntary.


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I know if I were the owner of those nets, I would definitely be marking with the flags! Those nets aren't cheap!

I ran through one about 3 years ago in the dark at 5 am, I had headlights/spotlight on and actually saw the tiny markers and was able to shut down in time to coast over it, the boat behind me wasn't running lights and tore it all to heck wide open.

I just got a call from Jessica at KY F&W. She is on it.

When I went to load my boat at Sportsman's, they told me somebody staying there had gotten their outboard tangled in one this morning and the rescue boat from Sportsman's had to go out to help. Probably the same net and after my mishap.

This is a bad start to the relationship of spring crappie fishermen to netters.

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I know if I were the owner of those nets, I would definitely be marking with the flags! Those nets aren't cheap!

I ran through one about 3 years ago in the dark at 5 am, I had headlights/spotlight on and actually saw the tiny markers and was able to shut down in time to coast over it, the boat behind me wasn't running lights and tore it all to heck wide open.

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A netter at the F&W meeting at Eddyville Thursday night said to not slow down if you realize a net is in your path. Much less damage to the net and boat at high speed. Probably zero prop damage.

They were netting pretty hard in West Sandy weekend before last, I seen them checking nets so I went in the opposite direction out to Big Sandy. 5 hours later I came back to the dock and dropped my passenger off to get the truck. I am waiting at the ramp about 50 yards out and did a circle to line up and just happen to see the old styrofoam marker 25 yards or so from me.
I had already ran over the top of the net and had no idea but luckily never touched it!!
The foam looked like a piece from underneath an old dock or something.......black, stained and blended VERY well with the water. It was only about 6-8 inches square and looked to be 3-4 inches thick.
I like the flag idea and hope they make it mandatory!!

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A netter at the F&W meeting at Eddyville Thursday night said to not slow down if you realize a net is in your path. Much less damage to the net and boat at high speed. Probably zero prop damage.

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Thanks for that info!

Yep, sounds like a problem for this spring trying to troll cranks, push/pull jigs and long lining for crappie unless you can find these nets ahead of time as bad as it seems how they are currently marked in the previous posts. This will probably get fixed, but again, it's like pushing a rope until it gets fixed. Hopefully the nice looking marker flags are not real expensive if eventually the commercial fishermen have to purchase these for use to continue their operations. If not, most will get 'borrowed' to mark their nets unless there is a way to permanently identify the original purchaser of these markers. But, I'm sure a solution will be found.

I might be mistaken but I thought I read they were going to give them out free.....??

Trip planned for late April early May,
Jonathan creek area, are these nets
a big problem here. Don't want to cancel
but don't want to tear up anything either

I wouldn't cancel a trip because of carp nets. The guy who put those nets I first posted about will have either lost them, had them cut into 1000 pieces, decided to move to another bay, or started marking them.

I talked to a commercial fisherman at Paris Landing yesterday and he got furious when I told him about the unmarked nets. The commercial guys will probably brow-beat the guys who don't mark them. They know the only way we can all get along is to know where the nets are and stay away from them.

Thank you M R Dux for the reply, haven't
been to the lake for awhile and didn't
know about the nets. Wife and I are looking
forward to getting back to do a little crappie,
bluegill and shellcracker fishing. Thanks
again for the information.

Maybe a sticky thread about current netting locations??

I passed over a big net today in Willow Bay. It was marked by an eight inch chartreuse colored foam marker. It was about the size of a box of cheese nips and tucked in tightly against the waves couldn't be seen until i was basically on top of it. I got lucky because i was up on plane at a decent clip and no damage was sustained to my boat or the net.

Boy, marking these things with small markers isn't going to fly....don't know what else to say.

saw a center console boat inside the break wall this weekend at Kentucky Dam Marina putting out a net....I was shocked that can not be legal

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saw a center console boat inside the break wall this weekend at Kentucky Dam Marina putting out a net....I was shocked that can not be legal

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I can only hope they put some on Barkley in Tennessee. These carp are out of control. Hopefully they will mark them.

From what I was told, the commercial guys at the meeting a couple of weeks ago were refusing to use the markers, even though they are free. Not sure where the logic is in that. It's not like catching carp is a cutthroat business and the lakes are swarming with guys trying to catch them.

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From what I was told, the commercial guys at the meeting a couple of weeks ago were refusing to use the markers, even though they are free. Not sure where the logic is in that. It's not like catching carp is a cutthroat business and the lakes are swarming with guys trying to catch them.

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So you’re saying keep a sharp knife handy cause they don’t care if you get tangled in them. :yikes

I ran up on a net Sunday afternoon south of Sledd Creek that went across the secondary channel on the west side that many use to navigate the lake at winter pool. It was marked with a 12x12 piece of white styrofoam that I mistook for a piece of dock floatation. Be on the lookout this year. I wish the yellow flags were mandatory now that the season has been extended.