This is not a slam on commercial fishermen...
Last week I was fishing the Hiwasse river in Price creek and ran into about a 100 feet long net stretched across the slough, it was unmarked along it's length except for a light gray antifreeze jug at one end. luckily I had my gas motor trimmed up and it caught the skeg and not the prop. I later saw the same nets, unmarked, in Legacy creek.
I wonder if anyone else has got a net caught in their prop and if these nets shouldn't be marked along their length? My guess is this netter put them out at dusk and was taking them up at dawn but still it seems like they should be marked.
Not looking to have the seals replaced on my outboard after getting a net caught around the prop. I didn't know nets were even used in Tennessee, not completely sure but it looked like a gill net.
Last week I was fishing the Hiwasse river in Price creek and ran into about a 100 feet long net stretched across the slough, it was unmarked along it's length except for a light gray antifreeze jug at one end. luckily I had my gas motor trimmed up and it caught the skeg and not the prop. I later saw the same nets, unmarked, in Legacy creek.
I wonder if anyone else has got a net caught in their prop and if these nets shouldn't be marked along their length? My guess is this netter put them out at dusk and was taking them up at dawn but still it seems like they should be marked.
Not looking to have the seals replaced on my outboard after getting a net caught around the prop. I didn't know nets were even used in Tennessee, not completely sure but it looked like a gill net.