Using a telescoping lure retriever has worked in the past. Right, Dan?

Someone should come up with a telescoping knife on a stick...for just such emergencies.

only when i'm not there, chump.

Dan, you can't see where the gill nets are so if you cross one, it get's around your prop and you're screwed unless you can remove it. That can only be done by cutting it out. You have to stand in shallow water to work on the prop from the rear. I got naked so I would have dry clothes to put on after the net was removed. Comprende?

Keep your boat in gear when you shut it off so the prop won't spin. Makes getting the net out much easier.

Can't believe you guys are fighting over the dinks that live in that creek! You can have it and the Rio Grande north of the Valeno.

I'm saving that $50/yr from now on. I've caught gill nets in my big prop twice now. Just a couple of weeks ago. I had to back my boat into shallow water, get naked (I was alone) and get in the water and cut that net loose. I was afraid I'd drop my only knife and afraid of mad fishermen if I got caught. Think I fish US water only now.

Never been checked and wouldnt ever want to without being able to produce a current Mexican licence if I were told to. Also, you dont need to be on the Mexican side to have problems with gill nets while boating at Falcon. A friend and I were fishing a bay on the US side up the river yesterday and watched three gill netters check 2 lines well into the back of the bay. When an enforcement boat came up the river they ran on plane to a place protected from sight of the opening into the river until the boat passed and then continued to harvest fish as quickly as they could and left. This happens all the time!

Never been checked and wouldnt ever want to without being able to produce a current Mexican licence if I were told to. Also, you dont need to be on the Mexican side to have problems with gill nets while boating at Falcon. A friend and I were fishing a bay on the US side up the river yesterday and watched three gill netters check 2 lines well into the back of the bay. When an enforcement boat came up the river they ran on plane to a place protected from sight of the opening into the river until the boat passed and then continued to harvest fish as quickly as they could and left. This happens all the time!

I'm saving that $50/yr from now on. I've caught gill nets in my big prop twice now. Just a couple of weeks ago. I had to back my boat into shallow water, get naked (I was alone) and get in the water and cut that net loose. I was afraid I'd drop my only knife and afraid of mad fishermen if I got caught. Think I fish US water only now.