Re: NANFA-- RE: Shiner Scooper

Stan Perkins (stanperkins_at_academicplanet.com)
Sun, 5 Oct 2003 22:34:25 -0500

BG's contraption sounds interesting has anyone got a picture of it on line?

Stan Perkins
"Gone fishin'"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Irate Mormon" <archimed_at_netdoor.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Cc: "Frank Gibson" <fgibson_at_memphisnet.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- RE: Shiner Scooper

> For those who don't know, the unofficial name of BG's contraption is
"welaka getter". It's a great design, especially for dry-foot types
> like BG :-)
>
> On 3 Oct 2003 at 19:13, B.G. Granier wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Back in the days of old, say about 1992 or so, I found this creek that
> > had an extremely fast current and even faster fish that would just
> > turn on their F-16 afterburners at the mere sight of a stupid dip-net
> > that was being swung after them in the clear, cool waters of their
> > habitat. What was even more insulting to me was that they'd then hang
> > just out of reach of my dip-net and point their pectoral fins and
> > giggle and laugh about my futile attempts to snare a few of them. (
> > When I state that it was an extremely fast current, please know that
> > where I live in Bayou country, most of our waterways are slow moving,
> > sluggish, turbid colored bayous or sloughs.) I wasn't used to clear,
> > spring-fed creeks at all. Especially not those that I could actually
> > SEE minnows in it's depths.
> >
> > Soooooo........I went back home and went to the drawing board trying
> > to figure out a design that that would be not as obvious and at the
> > same time, be more effective at capturing some samples of these (F-16)
> > types of supersonic fish.
> >
> > After perusing several of my local bait shops and the Walmart, K-Mart
> > and several other suppliers of bait and minnow net suppliers, I found
> > an example of a "Shad net" in the Memphis Net and Twine catalog that
> > just might work. But, I didn't need such a large mesh and net that was
> > depicted to be towed behind a boat that was designed to catch shad for
> > baitfish.
> >
> > Then an idea struck me! Get a stainless steel hoop, hang a dip-net bag
> > on it. Then rig a bridle system just like that displayed in the
> > Memphis Net and Twine catalog and attach a hand-line to it....But
> > scale it down to a usable, human-operated scoop net.
> >
> > The first time I took it out, VOILA! Those F-16 Shiners weren't
> > laughing at me anymore! And as a plus, there were no more wet feet,
> > destroyed habitat and a lot less stress and trauma on both me or the
> > fish! Sometimes it was so easy that all I had to do was toss the net
> > out into the stream, position it in an upright position and wait for
> > them to swim into it or right in front of the net! I couldn't believe
> > how well it worked!
> >
> > So, if anyone could use such an efficient net in their territory,
> > please contact me. I will be assembling some at an initial cost of $40
> > per net that is fully rigged and ready to catch an F-16.......minnow
> > that is.
> >
> > Postage/Shipping not included, sorry.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > BG
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> Prost,
>
> Martin
> --
> The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any
toys. But
> this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks,
and he
> would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man,
I think
> my heart almost broke. Later the boy came up and offered to give me the
toy. This
> was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him
down
> and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these
people.

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