hand-lining is illegal?? i have done it with the owner of the lake watching me, he didnt say anything other than it was unusual and asked me if i had caught much...
i have also been with/around professional fisherman and a guy from the *something to do with fish laws/regulations* doing a survey of a blue-green algae outbreak in a lake, nobody mentioned it. i was even helping him by showing him the fish i caught with my hand-line...
is there any reason why it is illegal? i am the only person i know of who does it at any of the places i fish, so its unlikely to be very strictly policed if nobody really does it, which i suppose could be the reason nobody knows its illegal?