Thread: Bobs\North west river

They really need to do something about the commercial netters setting nets in the mouths of rivers like that. I am not against commercial fishing. My great Granddad did it and my Granddad used to set a net for us to eat fish on Sunday and any left were eaten during the work week. Grandma would cook them up while we were in the field. Talk about a heck of a lunch. those days are long gone. But my family set nets in water that was at its narrowest 3 1/2 miles across. The fish had a chance. This setting in natural funnels needs to be dealt with. Won't happen though. The commercial fishing lobby in NC is just about bullet proof. Shrimp trawlers in the Pamlico Sound have wiped it out from bicatch. The state will not outlaw trawling in the estuaries and the division of marine fisheries is just starting to "act" like something is wrong with the Pamlico after years of the recreational anglers screaming about it. If they would outlaw trawlers in the Pamlico, it would improve the fishing for all the connecting sounds including the Albemarle, currituck and tributary rivers. You ought to be able to slay the yellow perch in the rivers but won't as long as the nets are rounding them up at the mouth. I don't have anything against someone making a living but don't wipe out a resource just because You can.CF

Originally Posted by crappiefarmer

They really need to do something about the commercial netters setting nets in the mouths of rivers like that. I am not against commercial fishing. My great Granddad did it and my Granddad used to set a net for us to eat fish on Sunday and any left were eaten during the work week. Grandma would cook them up while we were in the field. Talk about a heck of a lunch. those days are long gone. But my family set nets in water that was at its narrowest 3 1/2 miles across. The fish had a chance. This setting in natural funnels needs to be dealt with. Won't happen though. The commercial fishing lobby in NC is just about bullet proof. Shrimp trawlers in the Pamlico Sound have wiped it out from bicatch. The state will not outlaw trawling in the estuaries and the division of marine fisheries is just starting to "act" like something is wrong with the Pamlico after years of the recreational anglers screaming about it. If they would outlaw trawlers in the Pamlico, it would improve the fishing for all the connecting sounds including the Albemarle, currituck and tributary rivers. You ought to be able to slay the yellow perch in the rivers but won't as long as the nets are rounding them up at the mouth. I don't have anything against someone making a living but don't wipe out a resource just because You can.CF

They have been there for many years. They operate out of a place near the mouth of Tull's Creek. We watched them pulling in a 100 yard net they had strung near the mouth of NW River. They would pull in 2 or 3 feet, take 4 or 5 gar out, and continued that for the entire length of the net. You had to see it to believe it. We asked them why they didn't kill them and they sorta laughed and said they wanted to get home that day. According to their fish finder they thought they found a large school of white perch.