Which one of you baws was shocking catfish

Wasn’t even a lithium battery, rookies

Well at least they’re not from Mamou

Having shocked catfish and fished with a livescope, i'd say shocking them is more sporting and thats not a joke. Except for flatheads, they just roll up like logs but bluecats run on top the water.

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It's OK if you're acting on behalf of the government, but God forbid you want some fish for yourself.

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are you this dumb IRL too?

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t's OK if you're acting on behalf of the government, but God forbid you want some fish for yourself.

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Hey baw you from Evangeline parish ??

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are you this dumb IRL too?

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Tell me more about why this is illegal, but setting cans out or noodling and harvesting fish in their nest to lay eggs isn't illegal.

And yes, I have issues with authority.

Ex. You cannot raise Bobwhite quail in captivity in Louisiana unless you get a permit to do so. However, I can get a piece of paper that allows me to hunt them into local extinction.

History repeats itself.

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Electrofishing is an illegal fishing method for recreational fishers nearly everywhere in the U.S., with the exception of just four counties in North Carolina. This peculiar exception is a holdover of a bizarre fishing method known as “telephoning,” in which Southern fishers in the 1950s jury-rigged components of old crank-style telephones to send an electric current through the water and stun fish. This manually operated electrofisher does not generate enough power to shock fishes with scales, but it is quite effective in stunning catfish (which are scaleless). Telephoning was outlawed in many places in the 1950s, as it was believed to be decimating catfish populations, but “hand-crank electrofishing” was made legal in North Carolina in 1985.

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He said "Jury-rigged"

Step 1 Find the positive and negative posts on the rear of the magneto.

Step 2 Cut the #10 stranded wire into two 15-foot lengths. Strip 2 inches of the insulation off one end of the two 15-foot lengths. Attach the stripped end of one wire to the magneto's negative post and the stripped end of the other wire to the magneto's positive post. Strip about 10 inches of insulation off each wire's trailing end.

Step 3 Row the boat to an area where fish are likely to school or hide. Drop one wire over one side of the boat and the other wire over the opposite side of the boat. It's best to have at least two people for successful "electrofishing".

Step 4 Crank the magneto, being careful not to touch any area near the rear of the magneto, where electricity is generated. A telephone magneto can generate 8 to 110 volts of electricity, depending on the size of the magneto and how fast you crank. Stop cranking as soon as you see fish rising to the water's surface. Have your companion scoop them up with the net.

Yeah, it's stilled called "telephoning" fish around here. My dad lost a boat when I was a kid when he got caught doing it. He and my uncle had to do weekend jail time until the Sheriff commutated their sentence in exchange for enough catfish to do a fish fry. Which they telephoned, of course.