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Here’s a quiz for ya: How many non-pro, non-tournament organizations paid out $1.2 million in just over 5 months this year for landing rod-caught fish?
None? Nope. The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).
Recently, a recreational angler from Gresham, OR earned $51,000 by the end of August. How? By catching pikeminnows (squawfish), a fish native to Oregon and Washington.
Money’s involved because pikeminnows eat salmon, which are protected by every environmental law ever created by bureaucrats’ rubber brains, and since the BPA has to protect salmon, one thing they do is pay average Joes to go out there, catch and remove these fish, formerly known as squawfish.
According to the BPA, fishermen get paid $4 to $8 for northern pikeminnows 9 inches and larger caught in the lower Columbia and Snake rivers. The more pikeminnows caught, the more the program pays: After 400 fish are turned in, pikeminnow are worth $8 each. As an added incentive, specially tagged fish are worth $500.
One fisherman earned $81,366 this season, handily eclipsing the previous record of $58K. No name has been released yet, but that top earner this year caught 13 of the tagged fish. That’s $6,500 right there – and no entry fees….
My thinking is this: Forget about Vegas. Go to Oregon or Washington for vacation, fish the whole time, come back with a net profit for the trip. Best of all, there are no entry fees, no "pre-fishing" costs, no sponsors to coddle, no "egos" to deal with....it's a no-brainer! Heck, make it fulltime job, then you won't have to deal with clocking in, cranky customers, and unmanagable managers.
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