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[BigGun]

I know duck season isn't quite over, but i'm already looking forward to fishing. I have heard that a catfishing device can be made from a crank telephone. I'm sure it has something to do with knocking them out with an electric field. Anyone have any details on how to do this. I know this has to be illegal, but i was just wondering how it is done.

[NOHERE]

yep,it is illegal, from what i HEAR , it works.

[judge jb]

are you talking about a CRANK PHONE CALL....? leave your phone at home... it carrys a minimum fine of 2000.oo bucks, non suspendable by a Judge... just as well use explosives if you dare.... also loose your hunting and fishing privledges for a year at minimum....

judge jb

[damnyankee]

Well that's about as off the subject as you can get!!
I have seen one of these used before in Yankee land, they like to use them in horseshoes of big creeks, and yes illegal as hell.

[BigGun]

I know they are illegal, just wondered how you'd rig it up to work. Just interested, thats all. Wasn't planning on using one seeing how my rods cost too much to sit in the garage.

[damnyankee]

You hook a couple wires to the two leads, toss them in the water and crank like heck.
Fish slowly float to the suface not a whole to it.

[SkippyJ]

Hey Judge, is the fine the same for sinking a sack of green walnut limbs in a deep hole as cranking? Never done it of course but heard it works rather well but frowned upon also...... [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]

[msdawg]

Doesn't necessarily get all the bottom feeders up. The MDWFP and Mississippi State use a device based on the same princple as the crank telephone to check the fish population in lakes. They have a pretty neat boat rigg at State to do this, has a couple of probes that send the current into the water. Pretty steep fines to be screwing around with. Dynamite works well but be carefull if you are using the old stuff. It eat your hands off and kempak is hard to get a hold of without a license right now. And you don't have to worry I hadn't been doing this, we use dynamite in construction from time to time and for blowing up beaver dams. I catch my fish the old fashioned way by Basket, whoops I mean by rod and reel.

[WNE Driver]

Fella down the road had one. He said it worked well on flatheads, big blues and channels, but anything under about 6 or 7 lbs just got to the surface and skittered along to fast to net.

Then, about five years after he tells me about it, I was workin' at Radio Shack when in this fella walks. He wants to order some big capacitors. I asked what he has buildin'. He tells me about he is gonna take a ghetto blaster and gut it, then mount a little radio in it so it plays music but the rest will be fish shocker that he will hook up to a 12volt battery.

This guy was quite the tinkerer and outlaw. Built his own airboats and satelite dish.

[mississippi_duc_htr]

Yep they state boys like catching guys doing it. From what I been told for years works best with a gravel bottom doesnt take much electricity to bring em up. I had a fishing friend of mine motor short out. the motor would still run just idle was all. He went down the channel aways looked back behind him and was floating catfish up. He of course netted them but couldnt weigh them in in the tournament he was in though as he was bass fishing......... had a couple of nice flatheads though and some channels too. found out that his motor was shorting through the foot in to the water>>>

[LongBarrel]

Sounds like a damn fine way for a redneck to electrocute himself.

Take a look at the boat MSU uses. It is slap full of rubber matting and plastic milk crates to stand on to advoid the electrical currents.

Oh. Buckeye hulls work well too, just crush 'em up and pour 'em in. So I heard...

[Welldoggie]

...tombstone epitaph: he said "hey ya'll, watch this"

[msdawg]

Dang right longbarrel, you better be carefull if you are playing around with electricity, exspecially in the water.

[Unkljohn]

Yep, it does work, I went once about 20 years ago with an outlaw friend of mine. Definately not something I would suggest doing though. The possum cops really frown on it!!! [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]
JT

[crow]

Now tell the truth...any of you boys ever pee on an electric fence?! [img]images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img]