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Looks like a bad day for fishemen not reading F&W regulations??Vt. regulations specify that fishermen "must be in immediate control of ice fishing devices"!! I don't think it matters whether they are below water or above water as long as they are baited!!leaving a tipup out of the water overnight would seem just lazy and stupid!!Agree!X2!Dick
Ok .. so i have to put my 2 cents in on this topic. There is a fisherman on Bomoseen , who I see every single year put all these above water jacks up at an area , which is know as "the sandbar" on the south side of bomo and this fisherman leaves at least 30-40 of these jacks in the ice all year long. but i always get the impression that this guy is like claiming his territory by doing this, it makes me feel like no one else can fish this spot because he claimed this whole section of the lake. Personally i do not fish that part of the lake during the ice season but other local fisherman must be like **censored** Personally i believe if you are done fishing for the day, pack your stuff up and start all over the next day. I know i would not leave my boat anchored in the middle of the lake with all my poles in it . I believe this would encourage theft , vandalism, or pissed off fisherman who like to fish the spot i am in and cant because my boat is there.
If the region has no history of trap thefts, then that is not an issue.If, on the otherhand, the owner of those traps gives you any BS about setting up near his traps even when he is not using them, that is an issue.As we all know, NO ONE OWNS THE WATER THAT THEY STAND ON. It's typically first come , first serve.Setting up like this is akin to placing a "reserved" card on an entire section of ice, which you cannot do.If you are actively fishing those traps, then you have staked your "daily" claim to that section of ice.Once you pull your lines and leave, regardless of whether you left your "calling cards" or not, you are done and anyone else is free to fish that area.Sure it may be a "tradition", but then so wasn't poaching, but we try to prevent that nowadays.Bottom line: Leave your traps where ever youi want, but don't get your panties in a bunch if you come back 5-10 days later to find someone fishing around your traps.
I know exactly what you're talking about.. Tried fishing down there last year during mid week when I was out of school and you know who came out onto the ice and talked to me about setting up near his tip ups even though he wasnt even fishing... . They aren't nice people but if anyone wants to know just about every year the winning Pike for the bomo derby comes from them.
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i don't think he wants to leave a line in the water, i didn't read that anywhere, i think he just wants to leave them upright in the ice next to his holes
Screw that you leave the ice for the night your forfeit your spot, im not gonna take your tips but if is how up and your traps are there and there's not a soul on the ice your gonna find them in a pile on the shore line!
Just to be A***holes , we should get a get a bunch of guys together and jig all around his tip ups ... Just to see what he would say or do. But you know what, it would even be worth my time , because i would not catch any perch any that area of the lake anyways . I snorkel that part of that lake in summer and i never see one perch, only a sandy bottom..
Then what's it to you?!? Those families have had their shanties and tip-ups there since before you were old enough know what a fish is. Did you ever stop and ask if you could fish with them or are you just being pompous?
I think it dates back to a time when people made their own gear,fished on the local lake only, put a shanty out for the season, knew their neighbors on the ice etc. I can see some advantages to it. If you are coming back the next day or whenever it is easy to get fishing. The downside is your gear is out there to be run over, vandalized, stolen etc. Not saying if it is right or wrong. I hope this thread doesn't turn into a discussion if it is right or wrong or ethics. I know some people feel that their fellow fisherman who do this are claiming territory and so on. I see it as fisherman carrying on a the tradition that they were taught by their mentors. My sense is that it will probably be gone in a generation or two. A snapshot into what ice fishing in VT used to be.