sorry about your trot line...

to the guy that had a 100 ft trot line out in the lake that got wrapped around my trollin motor..it is now not there. and neither are the fish that was on it... those hooks should make excellent spinnerbait trailers though. thanks

Did you get any good fillets off the fish that were on the line? Some good cat fillets should help ease the pain of unwinding that line off the trolling motor prop,

thought about it, but it fell off when i pulled it up. bad thing was ,there was a 17 inch crappie about cut in half on there . had been dead awhile looked like

so annoying when that happens...thats why they have to be MARKED

There is one great fishing spot on KY lake that's full of trot lines. I could not fish crank baits or troll crank baits or spoons though this area without getting hung up on a trot line.

I wanted to cut them all and remove them but I was told that it was illegal to do so and that if I got caught messing with someone's legal trot lines that I could be shot down in KY.

So I went and fished elsewhere.

I don't like them anymore than any other bass fishermen but I guess it's something we have to put up with.

I wish that they would make them illegal myself but then again that would be unfair to the guys that fish the trot lines for cat fish and other fish.


But to me it's like one guy staking out the best spot in the lake and fishing it to the exclusion of others for days on end. To me that's not fair to the recreational fishermen. Although the commercial fishermen love it.

Can't please everyone I guess.

The mouth of a cove where the creek runs into the old TN river is a great fishing spot that everyone wants to fish.

[QUOTE=Moveon;429369]There is one great fishing spot on KY lake that's full of trot lines. I could not fish crank baits or troll crank baits or spoons though this area without getting hung up on a trot line.

I wanted to cut them all and remove them but I was told that it was illegal to do so and that if I got caught messing with someone's legal trot lines that I could be shot down in KY.

So I went and fished elsewhere.

I don't like them anymore than any other bass fishermen but I guess it's something we have to put up with.

I wish that they would make them illegal myself but then again that would be unfair to the guys that fish the trot lines for cat fish and other fish.


But to me it's like one guy staking out the best spot in the lake and fishing it to the exclusion of others for days on end. To me that's not fair to the recreational fishermen. Although the commercial fishermen love it.

Can't please everyone I guess.

The mouth of a cove where the creek runs into the old TN river is a great fishing spot that everyone wants to fish.[/QUOTE]

If the trot line is high enough in the water column to get caught in a trolling motor or outboard, the it is NOT LEGAL.

Also, when embrey stated he wound up the line, it didn't have a clearly marked NAME and ADDRESS......therefore also making it illegal.

Later,

Geo

if i put one out that blocked off over half a bay, i wouldnt really expect it be there when i came back...