They were biting good


A Minnesota couple was charged with possessing too many crappies after an anonymous caller tipped off the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

According to The Kansas City Star, a group of six was spotted by another angler catching crappies and keeping them at Lake Sisseton. The unidentified angler, who thought there were more than 100 fish that had been hooked by the group, called the Turn in Poachers hotline to report them.

Authorities followed the tip and tracked down two vehicles belonging to the group reported at the lake. One of the vehicles led to Mountain Lake couple, Isouvahn Xayachack, 70, and Chanhthone Phongsim, 60, the Star reported.

The couple originally denied that they had any crappies in their home, but Xayachack, who told officers the fish “were biting good” that day, allowed authorities check the freezer.

According to the Star, the conservation officers found no crappies in the first freezer, but found “a large amount of packaged crappies” in the second freezer.

The DNR totaled 273 crappies altogether – 253 crappies over the legal imit and an amount conservation officer Dustin Miller told Newsweek was “the largest fish case I’ve had in my career.”

Fishing regulations for 2018 in Minnesota limits the amount of crappies to 10 per person.

The authorities allowed the couple “to keep their legal possession limit of 20” – 10 per person, the Star reported. The couple was informed they would have to eat their crappies before catching more.

The couple was charged with having more than the legal limit of crappies in their possession – if found guilty, the couple could be fined and ordered to pay restitution up to $3,000, the Star reported.

Others in the group were contacted and investigated, but no other instances of illegal crappie possession were found. However, Kaew Chakvong, a member of the group, was cited for fishing without a valid license, the Star reported.


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I can't abide folks like that. Simply can't. Sure, fish the whole damn lake out because you wanna eat cheap. Assholes.

That's a big crappie investigation!

The Hmong immigrants seem to have a tough time grasping game and fish laws despite having been in the country for 30 years.

Back in the 90s, a couple smoked a pair of swans in a park in St Cloud.

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Originally posted by MNSIG:
The Hmong immigrants seem to have a tough time grasping game and fish laws despite having been in the country for 30 years.

Back in the 90s, a couple smoked a pair of swans in a park in St Cloud.

When I was at school in Richmond, every weekend in the spring there would be a group of Asians, Vietnamese, from the sound of it, so maybe Hmong, who would come and fish in the campus lake and fill coolers with their catch. What's up with that? Is it a cultural thing? I mean, there were no signs posted about not fishing in the lake, but it's clearly an ornamental lake and I don't really recall many other people ever fishing in it except for this group.

That doesn't sound right. The legal limit to catch is10.
But not being able to fill a home Freezer?
I'm not gonna go look it up but i can go every day catch my10 go home and put them up. Come back the next do the same.

I'm not an expert but i think this isn't correct ...

Most states have a daily limit and a possession limit. The ones in the freezer count towards the possession limit.

^^^^^^

Not in MN. The possession and daily limits are the same. Dumb law.

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That doesn't sound right. The legal limit to catch is10.
But not being able to fill a home Freezer?
I'm not gonna go look it up but i can go every day catch my10 go home and put them up. Come back the next do the same.

I'm not an expert but i think this isn't correct ...

Crappy reporting here. No pun intended. Important details likely left out. I do not think this is a cultural thing. Learn the damn rules and follow them. It is a moral issue. One of the most dangerous jobs in the country is a Wildlife Agent. These people ignore the rules and expect to get by.

I enjoy watching shows like "Lone Star Law" and "North Woods Law". Quite frequently, for whatever reason, when they bust individuals for poaching fish, over limit, or size limit violations the violators are of Asian descent. On a few occasions after being ticket and even having boats and equipment seized they expected to be able to keep the fish.

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The couple was informed they would have to eat their crappies before catching more.

LOL

Had to look it up: Louisiana has a 50 daily with 100 fish possession limit with lower limits in certain areas (25-50).

How a Cajun can live within this limit is beyond me. I am surprised that we even have a limit on sac-a-lait. My Grand-père must be flipping in his grave.

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I've seen Asians shoot way over their limit hunting mourning doves in Colorado. They set up shop with a cooker and eat them as they bring them from the field. They also camp (when hunting doves) for several days, even though camping isn't allowed. There's no limit to the selfishness.

Ukrainians are the prime offenders here.

The most I’ve ever seen is 48. 253 is quite the “catch” so to speak.

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Originally posted by MNSIG:
The Hmong immigrants seem to have a tough time grasping game and fish laws despite having been in the country for 30 years.

Back in the 90s, a couple smoked a pair of swans in a park in St Cloud.

Folks from the mountains, talk to the Vietnamese and they regard them as hillbillies or, rednecks. Great fighters during the war but, there's a reason why they didn't get along with each other and only worked with Americans.

253...that's beyond willful ignorance but, outright flaunting the law.

We have a Hmong population here, and they're known for cleaning out fishing holes. The limit of trout is seven, and they'll fill a cooler from one hole right after it's been stocked. Same with the local stocked catfish pond.
They road hunt for deer, and kill anything that moves. I don't know if it's all of them, but one neighborhood is well known for it.

The Vietnamese I work with here hate them. They call them the mountain people.

They say they strip the land of every living thing and move on the next area to decimate. It's just part of their "culture".

There are no deer left to hunt in Vietnam, so whenever I get deer meat, the Vietnamese here offer me hundreds of dollars for a section to freeze and take back to their family there.

In my neck of the woods it's mostly folks from Central and South America getting caught up in this type of thing. Taking cast nets to the river and harvesting everything to feed their families.

We have quite a few springs flowing out of the mountains. It used to be you could just stop on a mountain road and fill up a water jug at a spring. Now it's not safe due to immigrants washing clothes and bathing at the springs.

that's very excessive

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