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If they were illegal fishers, my bet is legal or illegals from SE Asia. These people since they came over after the fall of South Viet Nam, have been openingly violating many fish and game laws. The PC Fish and Game Managers and local judges have kept the Fish and Game Wardens from doing their jobs. The warders would arrest them for very serious violations. The left wing extremist judges and their buddies the ACLUers would get the cases thrown out of court inspite of tremendous evidence of poaching and killing fish or game out of season!

I know this isn't a fishing thread, but I wanted to confirm your post. This has been a problem in the South Bay as well. At Calero Reservoir, these people have been known to use very long, illegal bamboo poles to catch and keep fish that are undersized and contaminated with ostensibly dangerous levels of mercury. This despite signs posted everywhere.

There was a lake in the East Bay that had huge Striped Bass in it, 30 to 50 #ers.

Most of us released these stripers, and the kill to eat fishers concentrated on the planted trout. The community that we are talking about heard about the stripers in this lake. In a few months they caught and killed all of them. Besides the massive legal kills during the daytime. Apparently they sneaked in at night when the stripers really strike because no fishers are in that park. Vans would come up to the gates to load up bags of huge and dead stripers.

If these fish were sold to fish markets, the end users got a whole lot of chemicals that humans should not eat!