Cast Nets

[Bray]

I assume they are legal to use with no season. I have skimmed through the 2007 sport fishing and boating guide and have found nothing contrary. That being said has anyone every used one. I have practice around the pond a couple times this spring and have caught a 2lb channel cat and a huge goldfish (not to mention 100's of small crappie and blue gill). I am thinking a cast net could be deadly later in the year. Anyone else have any expeirances?

[Xi Bowhunter]

I never could throw one worth a darn. I did happen to cast well enough to catch bait for cat fishing last year:D

[BunnyBuster]

You can clean house on river shiners and shad in the Ohio River and feeder creeks. We catch alot of them to tip jigs with for sauger. WWWWOOOOOWWW!!!, do they make a difference!!

[GSP]

I assume they are legal to use with no season. I have skimmed through the 2007 sport fishing and boating guide and have found nothing contrary. That being said has anyone every used one. I have practice around the pond a couple times this spring and have caught a 2lb channel cat and a huge goldfish (not to mention 100's of small crappie and blue gill). I am thinking a cast net could be deadly later in the year. Anyone else have any expeirances?

You can't use one in a pond, also you can only keep the bait fish.

Sport Cast Nets: Maximum sport cast net size is 20 feet in diameter with maximum 1-inch bar mesh statewide except in the following waters. Sport cast nets prohibited in: 1)lakes having fewer than 500 surface acres, 2) any of the streams and tailwaters listed in the KDFWR “Kentucky Trout Waters” section of this guide, 3) tributaries of the Cumberland River between Wolf Creek Dam and the Tennessee state line except Crocus and Marrowbone creeks where sport cast mesh size must be made of 1-inch bar mesh only, 4) from the mouth of Crocus Creek upstream for 50 yards.
All sport fish incidentally taken while capturing live bait with seines, dip nets or cast nets must be released immediately and unharmed into the water.

[wademup]

I once donated 52.50 for two 3" yellow stripes in a 5 gallon bucket of shad!
Be careful what you drop in the bucket!!!



Wademup

[Bray]

You can't use one in a pond, also you can only keep the bait fish.

Sport Cast Nets: Maximum sport cast net size is 20 feet in diameter with maximum 1-inch bar mesh statewide except in the following waters. Sport cast nets prohibited in: 1)lakes having fewer than 500 surface acres, 2) any of the streams and tailwaters listed in the KDFWR “Kentucky Trout Waters” section of this guide, 3) tributaries of the Cumberland River between Wolf Creek Dam and the Tennessee state line except Crocus and Marrowbone creeks where sport cast mesh size must be made of 1-inch bar mesh only, 4) from the mouth of Crocus Creek upstream for 50 yards.
All sport fish incidentally taken while capturing live bait with seines, dip nets or cast nets must be released immediately and unharmed into the water.

Thanks for the info. Like I said I looked over the sportfishing and boating guide and didn't find anything. I was probally looking in all the wrong places. I saw where they were talking about giging, noodling, bowfishing and other unorthadox methods of fishing but saw nothing related to casting nets.