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<blockquote data-quote="briarcreekguy" data-source="post: 2755399" data-attributes="member: 16975"><p>Back when I was a kid, they called it Telephoning. They used old hand cranked phones to charge wires lowered into the water to stun the fish and bring them to the top. In the 1990's some enterprising soul came up with a device based off of a pacemaker. It worked much better as you hooked the device to a regular car battery and delivered a much greater jolt to the fish. The outlaw fisherman here on lake Texoma used them a lot. I was approached by a gentleman, now deceased, with the schematic and parts list for the device, and a proposal to make them ( I have a background in electronics). At the time the parts to build the device was less than 10 bucks, and he was selling them for a couple of hundred. I did a little research and found out what the fines and penalties were for manufacturing the device, if it was used to illegally capture fish. I politely declined, because as my sister once told me, " Your to pretty to go to jail". I'll bet if you googled pacemaker fishing you could probably find the schematics online. As long as you used it on your own property to electro survey your pond, you probably wouldn't have a problem with the Game Rangers. You wouldn't want to throw it in your tackle box and be caught out on the lake or river with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="briarcreekguy, post: 2755399, member: 16975"] Back when I was a kid, they called it Telephoning. They used old hand cranked phones to charge wires lowered into the water to stun the fish and bring them to the top. In the 1990's some enterprising soul came up with a device based off of a pacemaker. It worked much better as you hooked the device to a regular car battery and delivered a much greater jolt to the fish. The outlaw fisherman here on lake Texoma used them a lot. I was approached by a gentleman, now deceased, with the schematic and parts list for the device, and a proposal to make them ( I have a background in electronics). At the time the parts to build the device was less than 10 bucks, and he was selling them for a couple of hundred. I did a little research and found out what the fines and penalties were for manufacturing the device, if it was used to illegally capture fish. I politely declined, because as my sister once told me, " Your to pretty to go to jail". I'll bet if you googled pacemaker fishing you could probably find the schematics online. As long as you used it on your own property to electro survey your pond, you probably wouldn't have a problem with the Game Rangers. You wouldn't want to throw it in your tackle box and be caught out on the lake or river with it. [/QUOTE]
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