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[Tapxe]

How to Make $70K a Year Fishing for Invasive Species

Thanks to bounty programs for Northern pikeminnows, brown trout, and other invasives, you can make serious cash just by fishing.

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[itztime]

This would make a heck of a PT college job doing something fun and enjoyable. I grew up hunting/fishing, would fish my summers away on Blind River and the bayous attached. My folks had two ponds in the front yard, spring days after school all my buddies would head to my house and we would have bass tournaments.

 

[LogeEndZone]

Only bounty I know of around here is $6 per nutria. Bounty fishing sounds like a nice retirement job.

 

[Rickboy]

You can't get paid for it but there have been crawfish infestations around Colorado. Catch and eat all you want. The only downside is you have to eat them at the lake you catch them at. It's illegal to transport them. But hey, who is gonna complain about a lakeside crawfish boil that has no mosquitos.

 

[sfidc3]

You can't get paid for it but there have been crawfish infestations around Colorado. Catch and eat all you want. The only downside is you have to eat them at the lake you catch them at. It's illegal to transport them. But hey, who is gonna complain about a lakeside crawfish boil that has no mosquitos.

Is that the invasive species from the Far East that gets huge?

 

[Rickboy]

Is that the invasive species from the Far East that gets huge?

Nah, these are Rusty Crawfish that came from the Ohio river basin.
But it's lookin' like Colorado is making a push to outlaw any live mudbugs being brought here for boil.

Wildlife authorities cracking down on illegal live crawfish sales in Colorado; long-term solution sought | KRDO

Wildlife authorities cracking down on illegal live crawfish sales in Colorado

krdo.com

I can't say that I totally blame them but they're being kinda heavy handed about it.