Originally Posted by
WY21lmb
Never tried dynamite, though I had uncles that had. Where I grew up the ditches were deep, and when they flooded in the spring the spawning fish went up them, later to all be trapped and everything died when the water all dried up. So we did use traps made of clothes line wire (#9 wire) for structure and covered with chicken wire. They worked modestly well, as did the old fashioned cherry bombs. Many neighbors used pitchforks, or shotguns. Dad smoked a lot of fish in the spring, he never fished himself, the neighbors gave him fish, as we lived on a crossroads and they liked a heads up if we seen a Game Warden drive by.