How do you say that?

You earlier stated. Putting lines out in bad weather. Kills fish, at non-attending lines.
How the heck do you know if folks are not running them in bad-weather.
DAILY.

Right here!

If I check the weather, like all should, and know if I put the lines out that I will not be able to check them for some time due to the inclement weather then I won't put them out to soak for days and kill fish. I don't see that as something hard to understand????

Yes sir well said. I think I read the other day toyota big bass has donated over 2 million for the tpwd.

I did??? I'd like to see in this post where i spoke out against trot lines. ???

Someone asked about my take on trot lines and jugs.

Personally I don't have any experience with them. I grew up in the boat watching my grandfather and dad work them almost every weekend when I was young. Personally I have never run a line or jug other than out of my prop.

Today in the light rain my prop got really tangled up in a shallow water trotline that wasn't marked. It was obviously pretty old and still has lots of Hook's on it. I was pretty upset about it because it took a ton of time to cut it out and it has happened probably 5-6 times last year.

If you put a line out mark it, and don't leave it in the water longer than a few days. I see lines, hundreds of them in the trees up on the north end of the lake that should have any ethical line fisherman just shake his head and wonder what the heck those people were thinking.

Jugs. My deal is If u put them out stay with them and take them off when u leave the lake.

We have cut dozens of old lines out if the trees in the north end of Hubbard over the last year. People tie them across the trees and just leave them. We kayak Back there quite a bit and since the lake dropped you have to be careful. There are suspended trotlines everywhere. We have cut out the ones we found. That is the kind of stuff that needs to change. At least it is one thing.

When I duck hunted I was always afraid my gal Sallysue was going to get hug up on em So before season I would clean them up

No proof other than a Lake like Hubbard which I live at that is almost impossible to find a 40 pound blue in anymore. It is called fished out.

Just want you to know I did gave you a reply, but it was deleted.

Same way on Belton fished out and on the white bass too Wished they would just cut the limits back some

there's a pic that's floating around on facebook stating that all the fish in the boat were caught out of tawakoni ... which one of ya'll was that what done the masacre ... didn't think there was anyone left down in ya'lls vacinity that'd wipe out big fish like that but I guess I was wrong or maybe it was someone that wasn't a local that decided you texans had it too good on tawakoni so they decided they'd thin out your big fish population or something

I just now read a lot of this thread and it seems like my jealousy over what ya'll had down in texas is unfounded now as it seems as though you're losing your great fisheries. When I was down there with ya'll back in 2008 I couldn't believe how many fish was in ya'lls lake and out and about when the bigguns were on the nests. I was jealous and wished that okies would practice catch n release like ya'll did down there .. cpr could be the only reason ya'll had such great fisheries is because of good stewards of the resources but now it seems ya'll may have some outsiders coming down there just to harvest ya'lls fish... the ones that are against any protection should think about Keystone lake because in 2010 you could run around out there all day long and not find a fish over 15 lbs anywhere using side image sonar... this is what texas lakes will become if you don't take care of it and it's not the guides that kill those big breeder fish ... blues don't become successful breeders until they get up to 15 lbs or larger and it takes about 12 to 15 years to grow them that big... if they're all wiped out by people that are fish greedy like they are around here then you'll lose those great fisheries and it sounds like you're definately on that path now. I'm almost to the point that I'd risk becoming a vigilante for the catfish rigging up some manner of device to drag behind my boat to wipe those snaglines out... those should be the first to go because they target only fish that have reached maturity. Something has to be done down there or you guys lose and lose big... only way ya'll will be able to catch big fish is to go fishing to alabama or Va or someplace where they're protected by laws or poison environments where the fish can't be eaten. I sure hope ya'lls lakes don't end up like Keystone but it seems like it's coming ... outsiders don't care ... if they find out you guys have something that they want then if the laws aren't there to protect your fisheries then it's all over but the crying.