Netting on Lake Mille Lacs

Erik Parsons and his cousin Josh Kalk carry on a family and cultural tradition of netting fish along Lake Mille Lacs.

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[bbosch31]

@diezbassist Ya natives need their booze money

[diezbassist]

@bluewavexx ..I cant see any of these White people step up to the docks and tell them that.. they'll get scalped ! lol...and people tampering with them..cutting the markers isn't the smartest thing to do...they turn into lifetime fishermen down there them nets! and they only hurt themselves by doing that!

[diezbassist]

@a6763w Yous White Folks came from the ocean from the other side of the world on a ship..How can we be taking from all of you people when Your people came over and just took everything from Us!! all of our natural resources, our trees, our water, our land and animals!!!, we take what we need to survive, These people dont do it to get rich, they do it to live!. sustain themselves!..and put food on thier table just like everyone else.

[MNxLeGeNdZz]

@that70sguy1975 Its kinda bullshit that they netted 300,000 pounds of fish mille lacs thats fucking bullshit

[stopnetting]

Tribal netting is a racist practice and what I call selective sovereignty. These are Americans that are taking advantage of the system that allows them to do so. We are are supposed to be equal but a certain group of Americans are allowed to have casinos, rape our lakes during spawning, and dodge our tax system. This is wrong and nothing else.

[coldcarlo]

all i can say is if your a dirty indian that wants to rape a natural resource then you should at least do it in a canoe like these savages.

[SecularTechnology]

That's a pretty big lake to use a Canoe

[bigbadbrow]

fuckin gay ass native americans, fish like real ppl

[xXJlidXx16]

while the walleye are doing fine on this lake i am jealous,

and by the way people, they are most likely commercial, not sport.

[that70sguy1975]

Sounds like we have some very ignorant people who are jealous because they cannot catch walleyes like that with a hook and line. I see nothing wrong with what these guys are doing. It is their right. It's not like there are thousands of people coming to Mille Lacs to net Walleyes in this manner. And it's a large enough lake to sustain a population of walleyes on it's own.