I was wondering if anyone here has experience with a gill net. We have quite a few ponds/lakes on the farms, with several having being renovated in the last 10 years. We now have another that needs fish. Rather than buying fry BG I'd like to catch a few hundred from the other ponds before the spawn and put them in this newly filled lake.

So I was thinking I could put in a smaller gill net and tend it closely, running adult bluegill over to the new lake. Later it might be used to control an excessive crappie population in a couple other ponds.

I know gill netting is illegal on public waters but I'm assuming I can do as I please on my own land(?)

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