Cliff Hilbert wrote:
Brent, on the Norfolk River in North Central Arkansas nighttime is considered the best time for catching huge browns and rainbows.
Cliff: Not surprised! Have you tried it yourself? What's it like?
I used to do a lot of backcountry canoe camping, and we'd always hear very large fish smashing around in the darkness, in places where we'd caught smallish fish a few hours earlier. Sadly, our current law is based upon a long history of people poaching atlantic salmon at night on the Miramichi, Restigouche, and a handful of other rivers, mostly with nets. Rather than just rely upon existing laws precluding netting, the 'government' simply shut down the rivers at dark. That way, anyone found on the river at night could be charged. Same deal with a law we have that precludes fishing from bridges - ANY bridges. Poachers used to stand on bridges on salmon rivers and 'jig' salmon in the deep pools that form under bridges. So, no one can fish from bridges anywhere in the Province.
In my time in the dept, I initiated a couple of conversations directed at ending such laws, but there was no political will to do so.
brent