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00:00I need to talk to you about a few things, OK?
00:12OK.
00:13This is how it was laying when I found it.
00:15Feet are all tied up.
00:17Definitely something I haven't really seen before.
00:19We're capturing sheep to move into the Cortez range.
00:22This has been years in the making.
00:25Everybody, just back up, please.
00:27Just back up.
00:28We're up here capturing smallmouth bass, stun them,
00:31net them, put them in tanks.
00:33Grab her.
00:34Don't worry about it.
00:35Don't worry about me.
00:36Ma'am, I'm conscious?
00:39Nevada, a land of extremes.
00:44From the strip to the summits, it's wild country.
00:49Home to more than 900 species and a way of life worth protecting,
00:54preserved for the people and the wildlife that call it home.
00:58One team stands guard.
01:01This is Nevada wild.
01:21The release this morning should go off around 7.
01:24My name's Mike Cox, bighorn sheep staff biologist.
01:29I've been working with bighorn sheep for 33 years here in Nevada.
01:32We are capturing desert bighorn sheep to relocate to the Cortez Mountains
01:38that haven't seen bighorn sheep probably since the early 1900s.
01:42We have too many bighorn that are trying to survive in the Mojave Desert.
01:46With recent droughts, we don't have the forage.
01:48We don't have the grasses, the forbs, and their water is limited.
01:51And we're hoping to capture approximately 140 desert bighorn sheep
01:55to move two mountain ranges to the north.
01:58They're going to have food and resources for them to survive and thrive.
02:03Good morning.
02:04Thank you for coming out and waking up early.
02:07My name is Erin.
02:09I'm the biologist for the Nevada Department of Wildlife based out of Las Vegas.
02:16These are my sheep.
02:18So we're going to treat them very kindly today.
02:21We'll have the helicopter.
02:22They're already out.
02:23They're already searching.
02:24We're capturing sheep to move into the Cortez range.
02:28This has been years in the making to try to get bighorns back in there.
02:33So, yeah, this is going to be a pretty incredible opportunity for you all to be involved.
02:42So the animals will be captured by the helicopter crews, brought back, slung in, and dropped.
02:54And then we have tables set up with evaporative coolers.
02:58It'll be 100 degrees, but it'll be 80 degrees in that tent.
03:02And then we'll process them.
03:07So I'm looking at vital signs, respiratory, heart rate, dropped blood,
03:12do nasal swabs, looking for disease and genetics.
03:16And then we'll put on collars.
03:18It's a fairly lengthy process.
03:20And so it's good to have that in a spot where we're cool and the animals can be cool.
03:26You good with loading in the back?
03:28Yeah.
03:29Okay.
03:30I'm Josh Kirk.
03:31I'm the Area 10 game biologist in Northern Nevada.
03:33I'm in the Cortez Mountains.
03:35Okay.
03:36We'll just slide.
03:37There you go.
03:38We take a body condition score, BCS score, on all of our animals just to identify with
03:42the body fat content.
03:44And we also do some ultrasounds to measure the exact amount of body fat.
03:47And doing so, we can just kind of see the condition of these animals.
03:51She's got no body fat.
03:54I gave her a 1.25.
03:56She's a little.
03:57Did you read her?
03:58I have two.
03:59There's a body condition score from one to five.
04:02And actually, a body condition of three is a rock star, Olympic athlete, wild animal.
04:10She's a one.
04:12She's gonna be happy to go to greener pastures.
04:14With the limited resources, we're seeing the decreased body conditions.
04:19So that's just another need to put them into the new place so the animals that are existing
04:23can get these resources.
04:25My name is Chris Walther, Game Warden Southern Region, which covers most of Southern Nevada,
04:46from Colorado River in Laughlin all the way up to Central Nevada.
04:52Today I'm going to be patrolling in Laughlin on the Colorado River.
04:55It's a section of river below Davis Dam.
04:58It gets very congested at times, and in some areas it's very narrow.
05:02So it creates a very unique situation for recreational boating safety.
05:18Hey!
05:19Shut it off.
05:20Shut it off.
05:21Shut it off.
05:27Okay, the reason why I'm stopping you is for splashing your buddy.
05:30Okay, sorry, buddy.
05:31Okay?
05:32You understand with a jet ski, right?
05:33You lose steering when you let off the throttle?
05:35Yeah.
05:36So it's very dangerous.
05:37Whose jet ski is it?
05:38Uh, it's one of all these.
05:40Okay, go ahead.
05:41Hold onto that rope.
05:42Just hold yourself tight to the boat.
05:43Hold the rope.
05:44Right now, 3411 drive vessel.
05:46Stop.
05:47North Davis camp with a 28 California vessel.
05:53All right, so you have your ID with you?
05:55Oh, it's in the car.
05:56Okay.
05:57You know where the fire extinguisher is on this?
06:0310-4, 10-6.
06:05What's that?
06:06It's the fence.
06:07Are you sure?
06:08Yeah.
06:09Where's all your family?
06:10Right here.
06:11So it's not in the front?
06:12No.
06:13It's on the right.
06:14Okay, you mind if I take a look?
06:15Yeah, yeah.
06:16Okay, so it's supposed to go right there.
06:17Yeah, yeah.
06:18All right?
06:19What I need you to do is lift the seat and see if it's underneath the seat.
06:25Nope.
06:26Okay, have a seat.
06:27Go ahead, put it back.
06:28Have a seat.
06:29Okay, so requirements for having a jet ski on the water in Nevada.
06:33Grab the rope, please.
06:34Yep.
06:35You've got to have a fire extinguisher on board.
06:36Yes, sir.
06:37Not to mention splashing.
06:38Yeah.
06:39Okay.
06:40So you said your ID is in the car?
06:42Yeah.
06:43All right.
06:44Arena.
06:453411.
06:462729.
06:47Verbal out of California.
06:49It's going to be last of Robert, a date of birth.
06:56All right, let me explain this to you, all right?
06:57Yes, sir.
06:58This is a violation of reckless operation.
07:00Sharp turn, close proximity.
07:01All right.
07:02Total bail is 115.
07:03All right.
07:04Payable to Laughlin Justice Court by the 18th of November.
07:06Court's address is right there.
07:07Yeah, make sure you hook that lanyard up, though.
07:15I stopped at PWC due to the fact that he was splashing the other jet ski, which is a very dangerous situation.
07:23We have a statue that involves close proximity and sharp turns within another jet ski.
07:29And if for some reason he lost control of that ski, would have crashed right into his partner, potentially injuring him.
07:36So he got a ticket for basically reckless operations.
07:39It absolutely is a hard water way to keep everybody under check.
07:43It's a lot of river to cover.
07:45Offland in the summertime is usually quite busy, so we approach every shift as if something were going to occur.
08:03And if it doesn't, then great.
08:04And if it doesn't, then great.
08:05But if it does occur, then we're usually prepared to handle it the best we can.
08:10We've got an unknown amount of people in the water trying to keep from getting sucked under a dock or a walkway.
08:38Get out of the way. Get out of the way. Get out of the way.
08:40Get out of the way. Get out of the way. Get out of the way.
08:42Do not let go.
08:44Grab her. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it.
09:02We've got an unknown amount of people in the water trying to keep from getting sucked under the water.
09:07We're trying to keep from getting sucked under a dock.
09:09We have to try to figure out how to get them all safely out of the water before we even start to determine if there was an incident that occurred.
09:16On three. On three.
09:17Get out of the way. Get out of the way. Get out of the way.
09:22This is what you're going to get away from people.
09:23Get out of the way. Get out of the way.
09:24Get out of the way. Get out of the way.
09:25Don't worry about the jetski. Everybody just back up, please. Just back up. Back up, back up, back up.
09:37Just back up, please.
09:38Just back up, back up, back up, back up.
09:41Give me that life jacket.
09:42Give me that life jacket, please.
09:45OK, OK, OK.
09:47Ma'am, I'm here, I'm here.
09:48Subconscious?
09:49Yeah, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here.
09:52OK, OK.
09:53Focus on breathing, relax.
09:54We got you already, we got you already.
09:55As game wardens, we are trained as first responders,
09:58but usually it's just a matter of trying to keep them calm
10:01and just wait for everybody else to show up.
10:04Hey, get some gauze.
10:09We're code 4, we need medical.
10:11Please advise Bullhead, we'll have three PWCs floating
10:16downriver that need to be secured.
10:19Wiggle your toes.
10:20When Moelo down, it'll be good.
10:22Moelo, it's good, it's good, it's good.
10:24So what happened?
10:26We were turning the jetpack, and when I turned around,
10:29she kind of went to the side, and she got in fear.
10:32She panicked and jumped up, and when she jumped up,
10:35that's when I jumped up.
10:38We have Clark County Medical en route.
10:40They were going to return the skis.
10:42She got scared for some reason, turned sideways.
10:46These two females were together.
10:48Somehow she pulled her into the water.
10:50They both were off the skis, floated right
10:52into the front of the boat.
10:54They were hanging on for dear life.
10:57Any day you survive a shift in Laughlin is a great day.
11:02Yes, we did have a couple of people
11:04that were taken to the hospital for some minor injuries.
11:07But as long as we're out there and we're trying to help
11:11the public and enforce recreational boating safety,
11:13I mean, that's all you can do.
11:14Today is supposed to get right around 108 to 111.
11:28Maybe a little bit hotter right here in the landing zone
11:31with this blacktop.
11:33Yeah, I mean, that one's 101.
11:36We are concerned about their temperatures.
11:38We start early, and the capture crew is told to try
11:42to limit your chase time.
11:45OK.
11:47Towels, towels.
11:50We've got all the processes to cool them down.
11:53We've got cool ice bath towels.
11:56We'll give IV fluids if they're warm,
11:59and that will cool their core down.
12:01Give me those, give me those.
12:03Big towels.
12:04There's some right here.
12:05Bigger, bigger towels.
12:08We'll give IV fluids if they're warm,
12:10and that will cool their core down.
12:13How's the temp doing?
12:14Temp?
12:15It's dropping a little, yeah.
12:16Good, good.
12:16Definitely have a nice, mature ewe.
12:20We're going to add some oxygen to her.
12:24Breathe a little bit easier on the table.
12:28Matt has got the ear tag, so we can identify the animals
12:32from a distance.
12:34Alana's going to draw some blood, primarily for looking at serology.
12:40Primary bacteria that is involved with pneumonia.
12:44We're going to look at her teeth, so the blood is removed.
12:49And she is an old one.
12:52You can see that her teeth, she's
12:54weared a lot of the enamel off, and they're not sharp anymore.
12:58She's nine.
13:00We've had ewees all the way up to 18 years of age here
13:05around the Lake Mead area.
13:07Maybe a little bit rougher winters up north,
13:11but I'll bet you she'll go to at least 12, 13 years of age.
13:15So we're putting a GPS collar.
13:18This particular collar actually has solar panels on top.
13:22We've been told by the manufacturer
13:24that we can get six to seven years of battery life.
13:27Typically, we only get like two and a half, three and a half.
13:30The collar has an expansion magnets that fold on top of each other.
13:35I think it's always good to have some sort of expansion
13:38because they're losing weight and gaining weight.
13:41They're getting pregnant.
13:42They're giving birth.
13:44There's a lot happening on an annual basis
13:46that neck size expands and contracts.
13:49She's going to go back in the trailer with the rest of the sheep.
14:03Got the legs up, which is good.
14:05Legs up.
14:06Keep coming in.
14:08That's a picture-perfect loading of a ewe.
14:13Let's get some more.
14:16I'm Joe Bennett.
14:17I'm a wildlife staff specialist for the Nevada Department of Wildlife.
14:21Moving 150 sheep in a two-week time frame is kind of unprecedented.
14:26As you can imagine, that's fairly expensive.
14:28It's $10,000 to $15,000 per day operating that helicopter.
14:33We're talking a million-dollar project,
14:35and we wouldn't be able to do it
14:36without these enthusiastic, passionate people.
14:40Good deal.
14:44We just wrapped up the last animal.
14:46We loaded into the trailer, and all the animals are looking great.
14:53They've got a slight sedative that lasts for a couple hours.
14:56But all in all, the animals are really in great shape, very alert.
15:01We can release these animals in the Cortez Mountains,
15:04which is almost 200 miles to the north.
15:07To see them liberated, it's going to be a treat at the release site.
15:14My name's James Mortimer.
15:27I'm a game warden out of Reno.
15:29Another game warden, Travis Chapman, he's out on a dead deer down in the Gardnerville area of Nevada.
15:35Right now, the information from the warden is bound with whatever it may be,
15:42either rope or twine or something like that, and there's drag marks and everything.
15:46So we don't know what to make of it yet, whether this animal's been poached
15:49and or it's just a dead animal that was on somebody's property.
15:53The warden just sent me some photos.
15:55It's a doe mule deer, no obvious bullet holes or bullet wounds.
16:02There are some markings in the front of the head as if maybe it was shot.
16:05But the warden's saying that he's unable to find any sort of trauma
16:09that would be consistent with a bullet hole.
16:11So it's not uncommon that somebody would want to drag a dead deer off their property.
16:16But to leave it bound and tied like this is definitely worth something investigating.
16:21So if you're looking at different violations, this could range up to felony unlawful killing
16:28of the game.
16:29Right now, we don't have any mule deer open seasons going on.
16:32That and none of the meat has been taken.
16:34So this animal has possibly been poached and left to rot.
16:37Or it could range to a misdemeanor to somebody moving that animal off this property.
16:51Travis, how are you?
16:56Jimmy, how are you?
16:58Looks like it's been dragged because it's got the feet all tied up.
17:03I'm not seeing too many drag marks.
17:05It's probably been here a couple of days.
17:07OK.
17:08So we're not stepping on anything if we go this way?
17:09I don't believe so.
17:11Maybe tire tracks at most.
17:12OK.
17:13This is how it was laying when I found it.
17:15Yeah.
17:16Feet are all tied up.
17:18OK.
17:19There's a strap on there.
17:22The boundings, definitely some I haven't really seen before.
17:26I only followed it to about the main road.
17:29Yeah.
17:30And then it blends in with all the other tracks of people driving by and walking by.
17:34So lots of people coming in and out?
17:35Lots of people walking.
17:36That's who found this was somebody walking their dog.
17:38OK.
17:39How long ago did they call that in?
17:41That was last night.
17:42I checked it out first thing this morning.
17:44The call is suspicious, one being that the animal is bound by some rope or twine
17:48around its ankles, and the second being the location of the animal.
17:52It is an area in which there's a lot of UTV and side-by-sides that have the opportunity
17:57to take a shot at one of these deers.
17:59It does have some sort of markings on its eye, as if maybe there was a bullet hole there.
18:04We won't know until we start to dig through this.
18:06Right now, we'll just start on the necropsy.
18:09It's starting to bloat?
18:11Yeah.
18:12I'm looking at three or four days, too.
18:13More just looking at the maggot growth, too, and then obviously him finding it.
18:16Right.
18:17The necropsy is similar to an autopsy that's done on a human to determine the cause of death,
18:26whether that be from a bullet or natural causes.
18:30You can see the pus coming out of here, and you can feel the pus here.
18:33Right.
18:34I'm wondering if that has anything to do with possible hit-by-car, and...
18:38And somebody didn't want to deal with it and drug it out here?
18:42Yeah.
18:43The process that we'll go through for this necropsy, we'll skin it back on one side.
18:47If there is any sort of bullet hole or trauma, we'll follow that back into the internal parts
18:52of the animal, pulling it back layer by layer.
18:54Looking at it, this looks like it's coming from the intestines.
18:57It's kind of green and would come from maybe one of its stomach compartments, which could
19:01show some sort of internal rupture, whether that's blunt force trauma by a car or the travel
19:07of the bullet if this was shot.
19:13Oh, crap.
19:14Huh?
19:15Baby fetus.
19:16Oh, that sucks.
19:18She had twins.
19:19Twins?
19:20Yeah.
19:21Ah.
19:22That's sickening.
19:23It's usually around this time that mule deer are dropping fawns.
19:40It could be that this mule deer has passed from complications with birth.
19:44Right now, I'm not really seeing any entry and or exit wounds to be consistent with any
19:49sort of rifle.
19:50I mean, you have a couple of different scenarios, right?
19:52We have the fawns that were inside.
19:55She could have been trying to give birth to these fawns and because of complications passed
20:00away.
20:01There is a little bit of trauma that could be consistent with hit by car, but nothing crazy
20:05like broken bones or anything like that.
20:07We just wrapped up the necropsy.
20:12It didn't seem to be that there was any human involvement in this other than the animal being
20:18bound by rope and twine.
20:20So still, there's some violations that's going on here.
20:23I think the best route is just kind of talk to people that are around here.
20:26Okay.
20:27See what they know.
20:28Yeah.
20:29Well, if you need me, let me know.
20:30I can come back down.
20:31Yeah.
20:32See you around.
20:33See ya.
20:34It's very odd to see a mule deer like that bound around the ankles and then tied up with
20:44a ratchet strap and dragged from a certain amount of distance.
20:48We weren't able to follow tracks to really see how far, but it's not just one mule deer
20:52that we're investigating here.
20:53It's the mule deer fawns that also weren't able to be born that could continue the population
20:58growth here in the state.
20:59We need to complete the investigation, just make sure it wasn't unlawfully killed.
21:11Like setting up camp is the worst thing in the world.
21:24Travis Hawks, Western Region Fisheries Biologist, and I cover Truckee River, Tahoe Basin, and
21:29Washoe County Fisheries.
21:31We're up here capturing smallmouth bass, and we've got a reservoir right now that the bass
21:36are overpopulating, and so they're not getting very big.
21:39The anglers kind of want to catch bigger fish, so we're going to capture a bunch using our
21:42electrofishing boat.
21:44So we stun them, net them, put them in tanks.
21:46We'll also do some fishing, try to capture a few, and then we're going to take them back
21:50to some fisheries that aren't as productive.
21:53So there's one in the Reno Sparks area called Sparks Marina that gets a lot of use.
21:58A lot of people like to fish it, but not as many fish.
22:00So we'll use this surplus we have out of here to repopulate some of those other spots and
22:05give the anglers something to target.
22:08The entire boat is an electrofishing unit, and so off the front you've got those two
22:13probes is what we call them, and they'll hang in the water and they're putting out an electrical
22:17current, and then the hull of the boat is actually receiving that electrical current, and so we're
22:22able to basically stun any fish within a 20- to 30-foot area.
22:26They'll float up to the top, they're not really immobilized, but it just slows them down, and
22:32then we'll have a couple guys, Cody and Jake will be on the front, and they'll be netting those fish
22:37as they see them, and then putting them onto the boat in the live well, that'll hold them.
22:42The boat's high voltage, there is the potential to shock people, so we're really careful about that.
22:47Brad, who's running the boat, he's been trained on it, he knows what he's doing.
22:50If you touch the water, you're going to get shocked. If you reach in and try to grab a fish with your
22:56hand, you're going to get shocked. I have a kill switch back here to shut off everything, so I'll
23:02always be paying attention in case anybody goes in or we need to shut down. Guys up front, if we see a
23:08hazard or rock or anything sticking up, get my attention and wave me off.
23:20So right now we're just trying to find where a lot of fish are hanging out, so when we come back
23:23after dark and they're closer to the surface, we're able to capture as many as possible.
23:31Jake, I caught a fish!
23:32So these are what we're after, smallmouth bass. It's a pretty small one. We actually want the
23:44smaller ones. The smaller the fish, the easier they are to haul, and the more of them we can take in
23:49a fish truck. The bigger ones are more mature, and they're the reproducing ones in this reservoir,
23:55so we kind of want to leave them. So smallmouth have these spines on their back. It's kind of a
23:59defense from bigger fish. They basically don't, you know, a fish doesn't want to bite that because
24:04when they stick those things up, that's bone, and it'll stab into you, and it can, it'll make you bleed
24:09if you're not careful. So when you grab them, you always want to either do that, you know, hold them
24:13down so they're not stabbing you, or just grab them by the lift.
24:20You know, after the first day, if we're getting a lot of fish, then we're able to get more selective
24:23and only keep the small ones, but for now we're going to keep everything.
24:29We've all been through training on running the electrofishers, and we all know how to run the
24:38equipment and keep it at frequencies low enough that all it really does is stun them and kind of
24:43just temporarily immobilizes them and allows us to capture them.
24:47We're getting quite a few fish. Are you? Yeah. So are we.
24:51Yeah. After dark is where we do the majority of the work. Once the sun goes down and those fish
24:59come close to the surface, we'll get several hundred in an hour. Jake, you're missing them.
25:05I'm running these fish back to the holding pens we've got. It's hard on them if we leave them in
25:18these tanks for too long, so we like to get them back and put them in those holding pens that are
25:23actually in the lake. It's the water they're used to, the right oxygen amount. It's just easier on them.
25:28Best we've ever done is about 1,800 in a couple of days, but things look really good this year,
25:35so I'm thinking we'll break 2,000. And then that's 2,000 more fish in the Sparks Marina.
25:43So our urban fisheries are actually the most important recreational fisheries we have in the
25:48state. These ones like this out in the desert a long ways away from everywhere are really cool,
25:53but those urban fisheries provide opportunity for basically everyone. So there's a lot of people
25:58that aren't able to drive three hours and come up to a reservoir like this. And so, you know,
26:03by taking these fish and moving them closer to town, what it does is it increases license sales. It
26:09gets kids involved in fishing. I mean, that's how 90% of us started, was fishing small ponds in our
26:15towns. And so they're super important for us and for the state. Get as close as possible.
26:23Basically all they are is just some mesh netting that will string over that PVC and then we'll sink
26:31a couple rocks in there to keep them from tipping over because when you get some wind and some wave
26:37action, they tend to roll. And basically it just keeps the fish in their natural environment until
26:43we're ready to take them out and put them in a truck. After we eat and then come back out, we'll just
26:51fish for about an hour and we'll do our boat versus their boat, whoever gets more.
27:03I'm Jason Jackson. I'm a game board and with Department of Wildlife. I'm out here today at South Fork
27:16Reservoir. It was built in the late 80s, mainly as a recreational reservoir. It gets fairly busy at
27:23times. It is not a huge reservoir. It's fairly confined. Our boats are highly visible. I'm going
27:29to be patrolling on a patrol boat and just going to be checking safety inspections on vessels,
27:35looking for reckless operation.
27:44There's something worthy of a traffic stop.
27:47So we're going to use lights and sirens probably for these guys.
27:54What I'm seeing with this vessel is that there's somebody riding on the engine cover,
27:58which is in the state of Nevada, reckless operation. It gives us a reason to stop
28:02and then do a further safety inspection.
28:11How are you guys doing today? Good. I need to talk to you about a few things,
28:15okay? Okay. Where you guys are sitting right now in the state of Nevada, if you're operating above
28:20a weightless speed, it's considered reckless operation. Okay, so we can set up. So, yeah,
28:25I don't want to mess up. Since I got you here, I just want to do a safety inspection. Make sure
28:31you have all your safety equipment, your paperwork that's required and everything else, okay?
28:38Okay, enough life jackets for everybody on board? A charge fire extinguisher?
28:41Yeah, we got all for up. Okay, can you pull them out and hold them up for me?
28:48Okay. Those are all dope?
28:51Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
28:54I see that. That's awesome.
28:55The one in here, too. He does have another one?
28:58Yeah. There it is.
28:59Perfect. Do you mind if I take a look at it?
29:00Yeah. So it should say U.S. Coast Guard approved on it.
29:05That means that it's a good one. It's going to save your life, right?
29:08You can't do any swimming. You wear that one? Awesome. If you're operating this vessel in
29:14Nevada, these can't be in a stored compartment when you're operating. Okay, how about a charge
29:19fire extinguisher? You got one of those on board? Hi.
29:22I don't think we do, no. Okay. How about a Type 4 throwable? Do you know what that is?
29:26No. No. No?
29:28No? Okay.
29:29Sorry, man. Yeah.
29:31Okay. Any paperwork, registration, any of that? Do you have it?
29:34We have our registration. We just don't have the sticker yet.
29:37Who bought it?
29:39Me and him both. You guys are both on the, on the co-owners on their loan?
29:44One thing I'm looking for, just to make sure it's not stolen, okay?
29:46Yeah. This is all about the trailer and stuff like that.
29:50Okay. Something you need.
29:51All right. So right now, I have no fire extinguisher.
29:56I have no Type 4 throwable. You do need one of those, okay?
29:59And you're operating recklessly. So that's a whole lot of things going wrong right now, okay?
30:16Right now, I have no fire extinguisher. I have no Type 4 throwable. You're operating recklessly.
30:22So that's a whole lot of things going wrong right now, okay?
30:25This has a tendency to lead us to look further. Is this guy intoxicated? Why did he not take the
30:31initiative as a captain of this vessel to get his stuff together and follow the rules of all required
30:37safety equipment? And I see some alcohol on the board. You as an operator, have you had anything
30:42to drink today? No, sir. No alcohol at all? No. Okay. Do I have a driver's license with you?
30:47Well, no, I don't. It's in my truck. It's in your truck. Okay.
30:49I buy fishing licenses on licenses from us. You do? Okay. So you'll be in our...
30:54Yeah. Well, we put in online. Stand by. I'm going to push off.
30:57I just don't want to scratch the guy's boat, okay? Okay.
31:00I'll just run in and I'll be right back with you, okay?
31:02All right.
31:03Reno, 24-10 on Elko. I'll tell you a 27, 29 of that.
31:07It'll come back no match. They have no paperwork, no nothing with it.
31:14At 10-4, and be advised, your subject is showing a 10-61 Charles,
31:18and it's coming back clear and current.
31:20For Reno, I copy that. I'll be code for 10-6 citation.
31:2410-4.
31:26I'm choosing to write this guy a citation for reckless operation because it's more significant
31:32in that somebody could potentially get hurt. It's a $295 up to $400 potential violation.
31:40There's other violations that I could issue citations for. I'm choosing to issue them for
31:45warnings, but the biggest one that could have a detrimental effect to anybody on this vessel
31:51is the reckless operation. I just want to explain the citation to you, okay?
31:55I cited you for operating in an unsafe manner, okay? Because of the fact that people were up there,
32:01it is considered reckless operation in the state of Nevada. So now you know.
32:05I could also cite you for no Type 4, no fire extinguisher, and the fact that your life jackets
32:11are in a stowed compartment that are not easily accessible.
32:15I would have people sit on them and just make sure they're readily accessible.
32:22Yeah. So anyways, a whole lot of warnings there,
32:24but the citation is for operating in an unsafe manner or condition.
32:27Okay.
32:28Okay, riding on the engine cover, like I said, which is right.
32:30Right, yeah, yeah.
32:31Um, okay, your signature at the bottom is non-dimensioned guilt.
32:34Just promise to appear to take care of my ticket, okay?
32:37So I want you guys to be safe. There's online classes you can take.
32:41There's so many rules of the road, and there's so much equipment
32:43that you guys are required to have, right?
32:46When you're on a vessel as either one of you as a captain.
32:49So just so you're aware, okay?
32:50Cool.
32:51Okay.
32:51All right.
32:51Thanks for being so cordial, guys.
32:53Of course.
32:54Hope you have a safe weekend.
32:55Yeah.
32:55Take care, little man.
32:57Goodbye.
32:57Bye.
32:58Bye, buddy.
32:59Next time is a better time.
33:01Hopefully.
33:02Next time I see you, you'll be riding those wakes.
33:06Multiple violations that we detected.
33:08A citation was issued along with that.
33:11I think we educated a few people, and it changes quickly out here,
33:15depending upon the numbers of people that come and go.
33:19We just got to the Cortez range.
33:32Drove about eight hours from Southern Nevada where we got these sheep.
33:37It's a complete different environment, a lot more forage, a lot more water.
33:40I've heard that we could have 100 people and cheering on the animals as they're
33:45running out of the trailers.
33:47So it's going to be really cool to see Bighorn back there again.
33:56It was one of the biggest captures I've been on.
33:59And a life experience and the gift to be a wildlife biologist restoring Bighorn sheep.
34:15It is just really gratifying to see them in a new place that's very productive and they can
34:27grow and be successful.
34:41It's just really cool to see them in a new place.
34:43It's just really cool to see them in a new place.
34:49Whenever you guys are set, I'm ready.
34:52Getting out in the daylight with hook and line and then a little bit with the electricity earlier
34:57today, gave us an idea of where there's some big concentrations of fish right now.
35:02And we're going to work this damn phase.
35:05Bass in general are going to be closer to the surface when it gets dark.
35:09They're ambush predators.
35:11So the way they feed is they like to sit in the dark and wait for smaller fish to swim by.
35:17So during the daytime, they're typically pretty deep where there's not a lot of sunlight.
35:22At night, they all come out and move into the shallow water along the shoreline.
35:26And so those bass that we're after are all going to be cruising along that shoreline looking for
35:30those smaller fish.
35:34We're watching, just kind of keeping an eye on them, making sure that everything's going well.
35:39And then as they get too many fish, because they've got a pretty small live whale on that boat,
35:44when they get a bunch of fish, we'll pull up next to them, offload those fish onto this boat,
35:49and then run them back to the live pens we have where we're camped.
35:53It looks like actually right now they need an offload because they just shut down the lights.
36:02This right here is where it gets interesting when you're trying to
36:06offload fish in the wind, in the dark, and not crash into the shoreline.
36:20This right here is where it gets interesting when you're trying to
36:24offload fish in the wind, in the dark, and not crash into the shoreline.
36:31Are we offloading?
36:32Yeah.
36:33Okay.
36:33And so there, you can see the guys pushing off the shoreline because he's needing help from
36:39running aground.
36:41With the angle we're taking it at right now, it's just pushing us into the shoreline, into the rocks.
36:47It just makes it tough with this big boat. It doesn't navigate very well in the wind.
36:53That's going to hit me.
36:57Got it.
37:00I'll just hold us to me.
37:03Oh, we got a rogue rainbow in there.
37:05That's all right.
37:15We'll run these back. The wind's shifted. So after we run the dam one more time, if the waves aren't too
37:21bad, maybe we'll try to get up on the head of this.
37:24Yeah. We'll try to figure it out.
37:28We're going to try to inch our way back towards the live pens because we just offloaded about 200 fish
37:35from Brad's boat. If this wind picks up a little bit more in the dark in a boat, you've got to be
37:40beyond careful just because you can't see what's coming. You really can't see where you're headed
37:46outside of your headlights. We made it. Now I just have to get up next to it in the waves and the wind
37:55and get these fish out.
38:05This wind is making it really fun because every time you stop focusing on one thing, the boat drifts
38:16and you've got to pull yourself back.
38:18So this guy right here is a trout. And I mean, he's a good fish, but we're not trying to transport him. So I'm going to let him go.
38:33People have no idea the amount of work that goes into providing urban fisheries. And when people do
38:40realize like how much work actually goes into it, they're super appreciative. And that's what makes me,
38:45you know, keep doing this working at midnight in a windstorm on the wall canyon reservoir to capture
38:53a few thousand fish just so someone can catch them a few weeks down the road. With this load that they're
38:58they're putting in the pens right now, I think we're going to be well over 500 fish, which is
39:04more than I expected. So hopefully by the end of the night, we're over a thou- I think easily we'll be over a thousand.
39:09So we can come across and work back into these smaller coves.
39:15Okay. We'll head over there and give it a try.
39:17All right. Hey, Jake, don't miss any fish.
39:23Jake, Brad's son, is helping us out. And he's 13 now and he's been doing this since he's been about
39:29six years old. And he knows what he's doing as well as just about any of us. And so it's awesome to have
39:35him. And he's fun to make fun of. So it makes me feel better about myself. However, he is taller than
39:41me now, which is also super frustrating. I'm watching them net right now. And every time I see them go
39:50down and miss a fish, I get a little upset. So I'm swapping out with someone.
39:57All right, Trap, get your probe out there.
39:59All right, Jake. Let's see who gets more fish, huh?
40:12Jake, right there. There's a thousand of them.
40:19Jake, my arms are getting tired because I'm getting so many.
40:22That's a good amount of fish. I think we can pretty well call it. We got more than I was hoping
40:34for and it's getting pretty late.
40:40These fish are going to get loaded up and some of them are going to go to Rye Patch Reservoir in
40:45northern Nevada. And the rest are going to go to Sparks Marina in the Reno area. And hopefully some
40:51anglers can catch them. And then the ones that don't get caught, hopefully they reproduce and
40:56provide more fishing opportunity for the anglers of Nevada. Good work.
41:03I mean, I got more than you, but...
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41:24,
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