Vague for a reason, so yo azz can get a ticket then up to you to prove your innocence or pay the ticket.

What we need is more government control.

Are private pond caught fish considered “wild” caught?

I likes to catch bluegill to use for flathead fishing

This is great plan and probably won’t work. It’s all about them Asian carp. Most people can’t tell them from gizzard shad when they are small. But they gonna come one way or another

The Asian carp already are in Pickwick and I think someone said they're in Wilson. If so, only a matter of time before they're in Wheeler and then Guntersville IF they're not already in both.

The damned things might help Wheeler if they could survive all the chemcal chit dumped in the river.


On an upside, Asian carp are FINE EATING when filleted and fried. I've had them side-by-side with fried catfish and would rather have the carp. Everyone else I was with at the event where we had it pretty much agreed.

I make bream baskets for the creeks and use the baits, “creek bream, horny heads, spot tails, crawfish etc” for bait. May have to haul em 20 miles at a time, but I’ll take my chances I guess. Can’t catch that bait in the lake, or I can’t anyway.

On a side note, I know a guy that asked the GW what was the difference in using a crappie for bait instead of a bream, GW said $50!! Lol

Seriously? Huh.

This guy knows what he's doing.

I don't wanna get hit the head running 80 in my boat... ...piss on them nasty carps good for nothings...

I've caught shad at Guntersville and Ohatchee to carry to Smith Lake several times in years past. I've even caught them at Ohatchee and Leesburg to carry them to Guntersville Dam when they were scarce there a few times. I don't see anything wrong with that as long as you're not bringing in a non-native species.

What happens if you catch shad below Neely Dam (Logan Martin Lake) and drive down to fish just above the Logan Martin dam and you get stopped somewhere along the 50 mile ride? Or you catch shad below Neely Dam and fish right above Neely Dam? Hmm, They are the same shad above and below the dam, but two separate lakes. If the dams weren't there there would be no "separate". Oh yeah and don't forget locks, open spillways and floods that co-mingle the water between separate lakes along the same chain of lakes. Chucky and gang and on another stupidity run if you ask me. Wonder if a similar Georgia regulation made Striper Soup go out of the shad business in Georgia? Hmm.

icducks is 100% correct. This is an attempt at slowing the spread of Asian Carp. Clem is also correct, fried Asian Carp is delicious. I'd rank it up there with crappie, bream and bass. Seriously.

Whatever we have to do and however bad it might suck, stopping the spread of Asian carp should be paramount for anyone who fishes the TN river chain. They're coming... and they will seriously hurt the fishery. Talk to some of the KY lake guys. They'll tell you.

Another fuckkin solution lookin for a problem. Those sonofabitches in Montgomery that sit around and think this schit up should be publicly drawn and quartered. I swear I'm real close to hating 100% of those bastards down there.

Haven't done this a lot but we had a go to spot down on Cedar Creek for yellow tail shad when we couldn't get them on the river. I think my dad would've drove to the Moon and back for bait to catch a smallmouth

I always have went to shoal creek and caught a bucket full of stone rollers before I go to the dam fishing, they will bite those before anything in my experience

are you kidding me? We catch our stripes on gizzard shad we catch at the warrior river. This is ridiculous.

Ive never seen one asian carp in our tanks..just freaking shad. We also catch big red horse suckers in the winter.

This means that we wont catch crap for stripes. You bass guys that complain to me all the time about the stripes eating your bass? Wait until they over populate Smith lake then see how the bass fishing is.

Every day bass guys are complaining the stripes are killing the bass there. I believe em as Ive never seen so many big arse stripes. Ive caught over 150 over 15 pounds this year alone.

Once again the idiots at Al F & G with there heads up their posteriors.

We do that all the time...from the Warrior river to Smith. Its like the nazis..when people said..well that doesnt affect me ..so heck..thats ok!

Really? Way too much govt over reach. the dam state these days is worse then the feds.

Try netting them on Smith and PM me when you get a dozen. Not holding my breath.

We all do on Smith. Every ONE of us.

I hate when people think more rules are great if they dont affect THEM. Problem with America these days.

Then when they do affect them..I guess the rest of us already screwed are supposed to give a chit.

Just like when Obozocare hit us small business owners first. Guys with company paid health insurance that didnt get hit until after the election were like..I dont care..MINE is still good.

Now that theyre screwed too they cry like the rest of us are supposed to care when they just bent over. Freaking idots.

Same thing here. Wait until black salties and other bait are outlawed too...but dont come crying to us. You were fine with US getting screwed so phuck yall too.

Your freedoms are taken incrementally..not all at once..but some on here just accept it. Quite freaking sad actually. Same thing will happen to your gun rights..or your freedom of speech. Oh thats right..it already is isnt it? Just keep bending over and letting it happen...

unless they actually catch you launching the boat with the bait or see you net them somewhere else how in the heck can they prove they were transported from another body of water as opposed to being bought at the bait shop or raised in a tank if you just refuse to be interrogated? Its the LEO job to prove the burden of guilt you do not have to prove your innocence they have to prove you're guilty Gw "can i see your license" "Sure here you go" GW " was this bait caught in another location" "do you have reason to believe they were? if not may I please have my license back and continue my fishing trip" your not required to answer anything a LEO asked besides showing legal document like ID License etc.... you can be completely mute and it aint nothing they can do.