Anglers Charged With a Shocking Crime

[Champ]

OCALA -- The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says it arrested two Ocala brothers after they caught about 40 pounds of catfish in Putnam County by "monkey fishing," an offense the pair were also charged with 25 years ago.

Leo Gerald Bright, 60, and his brother, Luther George Bright, 50, both of 6491 Northwest 65th Place, were both charged Thursday with taking freshwater fish in Bear Creek off the Ocklawaha River in Putnam County by using an illegal method called "monkey fishing."

Once highly popular, a monkeyfishing angler uses a homemade device to send an electrical charge into the water. To escape the shocks, the fish swim to the surface where fishermen scoop the stunned fish out of the water with a long-handled dip net.

The Bright brothers were each charged with taking freshwater fish by an illegal method -- an electric shocking device -- and possession of illegal gear, according to a FWC news release. Both charges are second-degree misdemeanors, with each carrying a maximum penalty of a $500 fine and 60 days in jail. The Bright brothers' court date is scheduled for June 12 in the Putnam County Courthouse.

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040529/NEWS/405290358/0/FRONTPAGE

[Cuban_Liberal]

1. Silly bastards!

Everyone knows dynamite works better!

:P

[RC]

2. Be sure to throw it and not just drop it overboard.

[traco]

5. .

Are you speaking from experience?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. And hand grenades even better yet.

[jmowreader]

3. In the Army we called it "phoning for dinner"

The ringer crank on a TA-312 field phone, generates 90 volts when you crank it. If you strip the insulation from a lot of field wire, throw it in the water (after hooking it to the phone, naturally) and crank the shit out of the phone, the same thing happens.

Fortunately for the fish, most people can't crank the phone long enough to stun fish.

Hey, it beats going to the field kitchen and coming back bald because the sergeant major decided that tonight would be a good night to shave everyone's head.

[Deja Q]

4. YIPES!

That's disgusting, but funny for some sick reason.

Now if they go to jail, they'll get shocked in another way...

[Ksec]

6. use the electric probes to get worms to come out of the groud

I saw a guy do this once. It was amazing to watch. He stuck two metal probes a few inches under the ground and in a few seconds worms were beatin there way out of the ground. I couldnt believe it !

I was just a kid so no animal cruelty cracks.