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fishing - redneck style in Illinois

RRP
RRP Posts: 26,022
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These Asian carp are so destructive in the IL River, but this annual event makes people happy! This was this weekend's event.
http://www.pjstar.com/news/20160806/fishing-on-fly-at-original-redneck-fishin-tournament
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  • SGH
    SGH Posts: 28,882
    edited August 2016
    @RRP
    Ron do you ever fish Lake Kinkaid? When I was working in Prarie States I use to fish it regularly. It's a small but beautiful lake.  

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  • milesvdustin
    milesvdustin Posts: 2,882
    Lake kinkaid is full of speedboats and drunks. 

    2 LBGE, Blackstone 36, Jumbo Joe

    Egging in Southern Illinois (Marion)

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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,022
    SGH said:
    @RRP
    Ron do you ever fish Lake Kinkaid? When I was working in Prarie States I use to fish it regularly. It's a small but beautiful lake.  
    What he just said! I bet fishing isn't what it was when you were there!

    OTOH was that you in that speed boat towing some drunk with the line between this legs and 2 beers raised high and mighty???
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  • Killit_and_Grillit
    Killit_and_Grillit Posts: 4,326
    Same problem in TN river, MS river, and the Cumberland here in TN. I keep a club in the boat and just whack em and toss them to the raccoons. 

    "Brought to you by bourbon, bacon, and a series of questionable life decisions."

    South of Nashville, TN

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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,022
    Killit_and_Grillit said:
    Same problem in TN river, MS river, and the Cumberland here in TN. I keep a club in the boat and just whack em and toss them to the raccoons. 
    Hopefully for your sake some idiots won't get to where IL is by introducing the alligator gar as a potential solution! WHAT A PIECE OF CRAP!!!
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,022
    RRP said:
    Killit_and_Grillit said:
    Same problem in TN river, MS river, and the Cumberland here in TN. I keep a club in the boat and just whack em and toss them to the raccoons. 
    Hopefully for your sake some idiots won't get to where IL is by introducing the alligator gar as a potential solution! WHAT A PIECE OF CRAP!!!
    Trust me... as a kid growing up on a "lake" flooded every year by the Mississippi River near Cone, IA which was near Muscatine, IA I am well aware of those trashy gars! This was back in the 1950's and when we caught them and were not choose enough to the shore then we always had branch pieces in the boat to prop their jaw open and throw those back in!
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Did someone say "raccoons"?
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  • FarmerTom
    FarmerTom Posts: 685
    nolaegghead said:
    Did someone say "raccoons"?
    They did, they did.  I'm still waiting on dldawes1 to have his raccoon cook.  I may even furnish him the protein.  We're having a real problem with them destroying bags of feed in a storage shed.  Have caught and relocated 3 small coons, but if I ever catch that big ole mama, she won't be so lucky.  

    Tommy 

    Middle of Nowhere, Northern Kentucky
       1 M, 1 XL, a BlackStone,1 old Webber, a Border Collie, a German Shepherd and 3 of her pups, and 2 Yorkies

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  • Focker
    Focker Posts: 8,364
    No bow in any of the pics...wtf?
    Brandon
    Quad Cities
    "If yer gonna denigrate, familiarity with the subject is helpful."

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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,179
    Weren't the gar native there at one point, but mostly killed off by people, then the carp were able to move in?
    Love you bro!
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,022
    Focker said:
    No bow in any of the pics...wtf?
    No - not for this event. Too many drunks would kill too many other drunks and those friggen carp would just laugh as they swam upstream to the Great Lakes. Once there then the USDC or whatever would finally get the attention of whatever congressman who can be bought off (ALL OF THEM) and gazillion$ of dollar$ will be $pent WAY too late! These horrible fish are killing our waterways!
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,022
    edited August 2016

    Legume said:
    Weren't the gar native there at one point, but mostly killed off by people, then the carp were able to move in?
    Yes and no - those Asian Carp are NOT native to the USA water ways! BTW if you read anything about these alligators gars being able to even be interested in taking an occasional bite out of a YOUNG Asian Carp then you will understand why the Illinois political scene is considered so corrupt! 
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,179
    Yes, just wondering why you are against restoring a native species that is a natural predator.
    Love you bro!
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,022
    Legume said:
    Yes, just wondering why you are against restoring a native species that is a natural predator.
    sorry - I was still in the process of editing my original post to explain that! Please read it as AG are NOT the answer, but just another way to rip off us ignorant Ill tax payers who had NO SAY in this!
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  • Focker
    Focker Posts: 8,364
    RRP said:
    Focker said:
    No bow in any of the pics...wtf?
    No - not for this event. Too many drunks would kill too many other drunks and those friggen carp would just laugh as they swam upstream to the Great Lakes. Once there then the USDC or whatever would finally get the attention of whatever congressman who can be bought off (ALL OF THEM) and gazillion$ of dollar$ will be $pent WAY too late! These horrible fish are killing our waterways!
    Sadly, I agree.  As a boy, I'd cane pole fish with my Grandpa.  He would toss the carp, dogfish, etc out in the field instead of throwing them back in.  Said it was fertilizer. Lol

    Bowfishing is making lemonade out of lemons.  Would be a blast setting up a rig with a lighter draw, and just letting loose on those bastards until you hurt. 


    Brandon
    Quad Cities
    "If yer gonna denigrate, familiarity with the subject is helpful."

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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,075
    Real redneck fishing is using dynamite.
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,400
    we need a wall to keep rednecks and asian carp out of newengland =)
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Spring Chicken
    Spring Chicken Posts: 10,255
    As a kid grow'n up in Louisiana I fancied myself become'n a real live redneck one day.  Apparently, I didn't make the cut.  I ain't git'n out thar with that bunch'a crazies to become one neither. LOL

    Spring "Sunburned Neck Was More Than I Could Handle" Chicken
    Spring Texas USA




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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,400
    edited August 2016
    hey ron, they want to stock rattlesnakes on an island on a small lake up here, what could possibly go wrong with that =)
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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