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I hope the CO’s has enough sense to set up a few trail cams in the area in a attempt to catch these buggers poaching our streams. a case like this should have as much enforcement as needed to catch these guys then have the full extent of the laws thrown at them.

Hello All, The point of this thread isn't to give myself a digital pat on the back, it's to bring you all aware of what's going on out there. I highly promote self limiting pressure and not fishing during the brown trout spawn. Today I saw the negative of this approach, more fishing equals more eyes on the water. I was out looking for redds and I noticed a huge trap in the water, the size of a 50 gallon drum, just like a crayfish trap magnified 10xs. I had never seen one of these so I pulled it in for a look. inside were some suckers and a brown. I was weirded out. I walked up the creek further and found another, and I started to notice at most of the animal slides into the water were fresh, new cable snares.... weirded out more. Further up the creek I found a make shift live well, stuffed with fish.... stuffed. I didn't go further and called RAP. The CO was horrified as I am. This appeared to be fairly new gear and I speculate this gear was placed after the slow of fishing pressure due to the spawn and/or the snow. Get out there and walk your favorite brown trout haunts, I was last out in this area 3 days ago.

I agree, 30 fish out of a creek could set it back for years to come... I also fear the cost of replacing some nets is not going to be much of a deterrent. They will just move further upstream where access is more difficult.

Let everyone know what ends up happening

Try some beeswax on the ferrules.