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Fishing lines sink boat
On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:24:58 -0000, wrote:
On Aug 7, 7:20 am, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 07:13:17 -0400, "Bill Kearney"
wkearney-99@hot-mail-com wrote:
Mr. Koryak was cited for failure to have a proper lookout, Sgt. Turner said.
That's interesting.
Around here, you couldn't see the bouys on a fishing net at night -
they aren't lighted.
I wonder why they didn't cite the commercial fisher for deploying an
unsafe net in a waterway.
When the guys are fishing for shad or bunker in the CT river, they are
supposed to have a light at each end of the net. Stll tough from a low
boat to tell if it is a net light, or a stern light of a vessel moving
away.
These things are about 150 yards long, designed to guide the fish to a trap
at the end. They do have lights on the ends, the yellow flashers that are
use for road construction, powered by a six volt battery in the compartment
right below the light. The lights are there, but I've never seen them
working.
I wish the CG would do something about them, but apparently they didn't.
--
John H
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