Marthin
Sealiner
Hi,
often i've read posts regarding the treknetters. today after fishing with Baldrick they were busy pulling out a net near palletjies. I was under the impression these were unscrupelous harvesters, taking everything in the net.
All undersize kob were released. An elderly chap picked up three injured ones that were still reviving and put them into a bag. The treknetters quickly told him the odds if he took one more struggling fish that has been released!!!
A big steenbras was caught in the net. The moment it was visible it was taken with great care by a scruffy looking chap and released, swam off like a train!!
All non edibles, blue ray, eagle/bull ray, some lesser sandies, and 2 normal brown rays were taken. All under a 30cm wingspan safely released. 3 electric skates?? were also released, and gave 3 innocent helpers a shocking experience.
All small maasbanker that were fit were released, and the dying were handed out to eager fishermen as bait.
One thing bothered me, ALL ELF were taken. there was about 14 in the net, different sizes and they were all taken and sold like hotcakes.
A nice catch of BIG mullet was taken.
3 Nice Belman
2 Very big strepies
About 4 size kob.
Except for the ELF, i have to say the guys tried their best to get undersize and illegal fish back in the water chop chop like, and didnt stop at idle threats if "innocent bystanders" tried to scale a fish that should be released. Now i havent seen what happens if they get a school of tail or kob, and the slaughter it might be, but today was an eyeopener to me.
often i've read posts regarding the treknetters. today after fishing with Baldrick they were busy pulling out a net near palletjies. I was under the impression these were unscrupelous harvesters, taking everything in the net.
All undersize kob were released. An elderly chap picked up three injured ones that were still reviving and put them into a bag. The treknetters quickly told him the odds if he took one more struggling fish that has been released!!!
A big steenbras was caught in the net. The moment it was visible it was taken with great care by a scruffy looking chap and released, swam off like a train!!
All non edibles, blue ray, eagle/bull ray, some lesser sandies, and 2 normal brown rays were taken. All under a 30cm wingspan safely released. 3 electric skates?? were also released, and gave 3 innocent helpers a shocking experience.
All small maasbanker that were fit were released, and the dying were handed out to eager fishermen as bait.
One thing bothered me, ALL ELF were taken. there was about 14 in the net, different sizes and they were all taken and sold like hotcakes.
A nice catch of BIG mullet was taken.
3 Nice Belman
2 Very big strepies
About 4 size kob.
Except for the ELF, i have to say the guys tried their best to get undersize and illegal fish back in the water chop chop like, and didnt stop at idle threats if "innocent bystanders" tried to scale a fish that should be released. Now i havent seen what happens if they get a school of tail or kob, and the slaughter it might be, but today was an eyeopener to me.
