Are Indiana’s river monsters under danger?
Dale Sides holds a catfish that is 50-pound caught in the Ohio River, this year. Photo given by Dale Sides (Picture: Kelly Wilkinson/The Star) purchase Photo
VEVAY, Ind. — On an overcast that is recent, Dale Sides dropped his lines 25 legs into the base regarding the murky Ohio River. Just then, a boat that is green past.
A couple of hundred yards from where Sides had been anchored, the boater, a commercial fisherman, started pulling up submerged hoops big sufficient for a human being to swim through. Or even for the nets attached.
Sides wasn’t delighted.
“we view him pull five, six, seven nets all the way through this area here, in which he’s pulling seafood out,” Sides said. “He’s fishing it on a daily basis a day, seven days per week.”
The angler that is commercial the green ship is Sides’ opponent in a contentious debate which have pitted sport and commercial fishermen against one another in at the very least four states. Continue reading