Tuesday, May 06, 2008
By BEN RAINES, Staff Reporter
Two commercial gillnetters were caught red-handed Saturday night while using a 1,200-foot net in the closed waters of Daphne's D'Olive Creek, according to state officials.
A tip phoned in to the state's Operation Gamewatch hot line led an officer from the Marine Resources Division to the creek. Once there, he cut his motor and used a push pole to ease his boat through the shallow creek mouth and silently approach the netters.
"They went in and made a set starting at the mouth (of the creek) and going up to the turn," said Officer Trey Pose, explaining that the net was placed in the stretch of D'Olive Creek adjacent to the Daphne exit ramp off the Bayway. "I watched them while they picked the net up, boated it and headed back out."
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