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Gill Net Safety Concerns

  • Avoid trolling near or between marker buoys.
  • Always pass shoreward of the nearshore buoy and lakeward of the deep-water buoy.
  • On a fish finder a gill net often looks like a sudden rise in the bottom of the lake.
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Overhead view of a Gill Net

gill net illustration

Gill Nets



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Updated: 11/11/09