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PostPosted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 10:17 pm
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""If you shoot a high-powered rifle, you can get a big mare and six or seven little bucks,"

(I'm thinking there's a place here for a load of double-ought buck....)

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www.taipeitimes.com/Ne...2003155191

US hunters insist on right to bear arms against fish

It may be unsportsmanlike and dangerous, but Americans are not going to stop shooting fish anytime soon

NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , ST ALBANS BAY, VERMONT
Wednesday, May 12, 2004,Page 16

The hunter's prey darted into the shadows, just out of reach of Henry Demar's gun.
"Come on, stand up and be counted," Demar muttered. "There was a ripple that came out of the weeds. There's something out there."

Dressed in camouflage, gripping his .357-caliber Magnum, Demar was primed to shoot. But this time, no such luck. With a flick of its tail, his quarry -- a slick, silvery fish -- was gone.

Fish shooting is a sport in Vermont, and every spring, hunters break out their artillery -- high-caliber pistols, shotguns, even AK-47s -- and head to the marshes to exercise their right to bear arms against fish.

It is a controversial pastime, and Vermont's fish-and-wildlife regulators have repeatedly tried to ban it. They call it unsportsmanlike and dangerous, warning a bullet striking water can ricochet across the water like a skipping stone.

But fish shooting has survived, a cherished tradition for some Vermont families and a novelty to some teenagers and twenty-somethings. Every spring, fixated fish hunters climb into trees overhanging the water or perch on the banks of marshes that lace Lake Champlain, on Vermont's northwest border.

Kyle Paquette fires at a fish in Guay's Marsh in St. Albans Bay, Vermont. Fish shooting is a sport in Vermont and every spring, hunters break out their artillery and head to the marshes to exercise their right to shoot fish. It is a controversial pastime and Vermont's fish-and-wildlife regulators have repeatedly tried to ban it.
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"They call us crazy, I guess, to go sit in a tree and wait for fish to come out," said Dean Paquette, 66, as he struggled to describe the fish-shooting rush. "It's something that once you've done it ...."

Paquette, a retired locomotive engineer, has passed fish shooting on to his children and grandchildren, including his daughter, Nicki, a nurse. "You have to be a good shot," said Paquette, 31, who started shooting at age six. "It's a challenge. I think that's why people do it."

"They call us crazy, I guess, to go sit in a tree and wait for fish to come out. It's something that once you've done it ....."

Dean Paquette, a dedicated fish-shooter

Her 87-year-old great uncle, Earl Picard, is so hooked that, against the better judgment of his relatives, he frequently drives 1000km from his home in Newport to Lake Champlain. Picard still climbs trees, although "most of the trees that I used to climb in are gone," he said. "You can sit up there in the sun and the birds will come and perch on your hat and look you in the eye."

There is art, or at least science, to shooting fish, aficionados say. Most fish hunters do not want to shoot the actual fish, because then "you can't really eat them," Paquette said. "They just kind of shatter."

Instead, said Demar, "you try to shoot just in front of the fish's nose or head." The bullet torpedoes to the marsh bottom and creates "enough concussion that it breaks the fish's air bladder and it floats to the surface."

Often the target is a female fish come to spawn in shallow water, accompanied by several male acolytes who might also be killed, or stunned, by the concussion.

"If you shoot a high-powered rifle, you can get a big mare and six or seven little bucks," Paquette said.

Permitted from March 25 to May 25, and only on Lake Champlain, fish shooting has probably existed for a century. (Picard was 10 when he started.) It also used to be legal in the state of New York, which also borders the huge apostrophe-shaped lake.

State officials say that fish shooting disturbs nesting birds and that killing spawning females could endanger the northern pike population (although so far there is no evidence it has).

Worst of all, state officials say, many shooters do not retrieve all the fish they kill. They leave behind fish they cannot find or do not want to wade after and fish that exceed the state's five-pike-a-day limit or fall under the minimum length for northern pike. Marcelle recently found 18 dead fish left to rot.

Two dead fish recently greeted Demar and his companions at the marsh, a species he called mudfish. There were some frolicking muskrats, chickadees in the ash and willow trees, and shell casings from an 8mm Mauser. ("Oh, that's made for blowing them out of the water," Rushford said.)

There were not, however, enough live fish to shoot. So Demar tested his gun on a log in the water, and spray shot up.

"I got a little water on my sunglasses," he said sheepishly. "That's the thing about pickerel shooting. Afterward, you have to turn away, or you get sprayed in the face."

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Somehow a 'tree stand' for hunting fish just don't seem right...lol

Good story...:wink:
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Somehow a 'tree stand' for hunting fish just don't seem right...lol

Good story...:wink:


I agree....a real sportsman would don a pair of hip waders and just stick the muzzle of your favorite goose gun into the water and knock those lil' suckers unconcious!

I'd go long barrel to try to keep my hair from getting wet.....

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:13 am
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THIS IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!

Finally an excuse to break out my trusty Remington 870!!!!!!! The kid loves to fish too and he can use the Ruger 10-22!!!!!!

Modified choke oughta be just right for the smallmouth Bass in these parts, y'think?

OUTSTANDING!!!!

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PostPosted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 7:17 am
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Vermonter goes fishin'....

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ORRRRRRRRR if you could get your hands on one, try nades or an anti-tank device

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ORRRRRRRRR if you could get your hands on one, try nades or an anti-tank device


BTDT (with 'nades). Standard ARVN fishing technique...more disposed to take on fish than NVA on many occasions. Outcome was usually better, too. Wink

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ORRRRRRRRR if you could get your hands on one, try nades or an anti-tank device


I was thinking one of those missing suitcase nukes.
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