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00:10I 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.
00:27We're up here capturing smallmouth bass, stun them, net them,
00:32put them in tanks.
00:33Grab it.
00:34Don't worry about it.
00:35Don't worry about me.
00:36Ma'am.
00:37Subconscious?
00:40Nevada, a land of extremes.
00:44From the strip to the summits, it's wild country.
00:48Home to more than 900 species and a way of life worth protecting.
00:54Preserved for the people and the wildlife that call it home.
00:59One team stands guard.
01:01This is...
01:03Nevada Wild.ennes
01:3133 years here in Nevada. We are capturing desert bighorn sheep to relocate to the Cortez Mountains
01:38that haven't seen bighorn sheep probably since the early 1900s. We have too many bighorn that
01:44are trying to survive in the Mojave Desert. With recent droughts, we don't have the forage, we
01:50don't have the grasses, the forbs, and their water is limited. And we're hoping to capture
01:55approximately 140 desert bighorn sheep to move two mountain ranges to the north. They're going to
02:01have food and resources for them to survive and thrive. Good morning! Thank you for coming out and
02:08waking up early. My name is Erin. I'm the biologist for Nevada Department of Wildlife based out of Las
02:15Vegas. These are my sheep, so we're going to treat them very kindly today. We'll have the helicopter.
02:22They're already out. They're already searching. We're capturing sheep to to move into the Cortez
02:28range. This has been years in the making to try to get bighorns back in there. So
02:35yeah, this is going to be a pretty incredible opportunity for you all to be involved.
02:41So the animals will be captured by the helicopter crews, brought back, slung in, and dropped.
02:53And then we have tables set up with evaporative coolers. It'll be 100 degrees,
02:59but it'll be 80 degrees in that tent. And then we'll process them.
03:07So I'm looking at vital signs, respiratory, heart rate, draw blood, do nasal swabs, looking for disease
03:14and genetics. And then we'll put on collars. It's a fairly lengthy process. And so it's good to have
03:22that in a spot where we're cool and the animals can be cool. You good with loading in the back?
03:28Yeah. Okay. I'm Josh Kirk. I'm the Area 10 game biologist in Northern Nevada. I'm in the
03:34Gortez Mountains. Okay. We'll just slide. There you go. We take a body condition score,
03:40BCS score on all of our animals, just to identify with the body fat content. And we also do some
03:45ultrasounds to measure the exact amount of body fat. And in doing so, we can just kind of see
03:49the condition of these animals. She's got no body fat. I gave her a 1.25.
03:58There's a body condition score from one to five. And actually, a body condition of three
04:05is a rock star, Olympic athlete, wild animal. She's a one. She's going to be happy to go to
04:13greener pastures. With the limited resources, we're seeing the decreased body condition. So
04:20that's just another need to put them into the new place. So the animals that are existing can
04:24get these resources.
04:40My name is Chris Walther of Game Warden Southern Region, which covers most of Southern Nevada from
04:47Colorado River and Laughlin all the way up to Central Nevada.
04:52Today, I'm going to be patrolling in Laughlin on the Colorado River. It's a section of river below
04:57Davis Dam. It 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.
05:17Hey! Shut it off. Shut it off.
05:27Okay, the reason why I'm stopping you is for splashing your buddy.
05:29Okay? You understand with a jet ski, right? You lose steering when you let off the throttle?
05:35Yeah. So it's very dangerous. Whose jet ski is it?
05:39Okay, go ahead. Hold on to that rope. Just hold yourself tight to the boat. Hold the rope.
05:45Arena 3411 Drive Vessel. Stop. North Davis Camp. Route 28 California Vessel.
05:53All right, sir. You have your ID with you?
05:54Ah, it's in the car. Okay. You know where the fire extinguisher is on this?
06:0310-4, 10-6. What's that? Are you sure? Yeah.
06:08Where's your camp at? Where's all your family? So it's not in the front? No.
06:13Okay, you mind if I take a look? Yeah, yeah.
06:15Okay, so it's supposed to go right there. Yeah, yeah.
06:17All right? What I need you to do is lift the seat and see if it's underneath the seat.
06:20All right.
06:25Nope. Okay, have a seat. Go ahead. Put it back. Have a seat.
06:29Okay, so requirements for having a jet ski on the water in Nevada. Grab the rope, please.
06:34Yeah. You've got to have a fire extinguisher on board.
06:35Yes, sir. Okay, it's a violation to not have it.
06:37Yes, sir. Not to mention splashing.
06:39Yeah. Okay. So you said your ID is in the car?
06:42Yeah. All right.
06:45Arena 3411 2729 Verbal out of California.
06:48Good morning. It's going to be last of Robert, date of birth.
06:56All right, let me explain this to you, all right?
06:57Yes, sir.
06:58This is a violation, reckless operation, sharp turn, close proximity.
07:01All right. Total bail is 115.
07:03All right. Payable to Laughlin Justice Court by the 18th of November.
07:06Court's address is right there. Yeah, make sure you hook that lanyard up, though.
07:14I stopped at PWC due to the fact that he was splashing the other jet ski, which is a very
07:21dangerous 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
07:36him.
07:36So he got a ticket for basically reckless operations.
07:41It absolutely is a hard water way to keep everybody under check.
07:43It's a lot of river to cover.
07:57Laughlin in the summertime is usually quite busy.
08:00So we approach every shift as if something were going to occur.
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.
08:15Reno 3411, 1023.
08:26Edgewater.
08:32We've got an unknown amount of people in the water trying to keep from getting sucked under a dock or
08:37a walkway.
08:39Get 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.
08:57Do not let go. Do not let go. Grab her.
09:01Don't worry about it. Don't worry about me.
09:04We've got an unknown amount of people in the water trying to keep from getting sucked under a dock.
09:08We have to try to figure out how to get them all safely out of the water before we even
09:12start to
09:13determine if there was an incident that occurred.
09:16On three. On three.
09:34Don't worry about the jet ski. Everybody just back up please.
09:38Just back up. Back up. Back up. Back up.
09:41Give me that life jacket. Give me that life jacket please.
09:45Okay. Okay. Okay.
09:47Ma'am.
09:47I'm here.
09:47I'm here.
09:48Are you conscious?
09:50Can you breathe?
09:51Breathe. Focus on breathing.
09:52Okay. Okay. Focus on breathing.
09:54Relax.
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
10:00and just wait for everybody else to show up.
10:04Hey.
10:05Get some gauze.
10:09We're code four. We need medical.
10:11Please advise Bullhead. We'll have three PWCs floating down river that need to be secured.
10:23So what happened?
10:25We were turning the jet ski.
10:27Yeah.
10:28And when I turned around, she kind of went to the side.
10:31Okay.
10:31And she got scared. She panicked, so she jumped up.
10:34And when she jumped up, that's when I jumped up.
10:38We have Clark County Medical in route.
10:40They were going to return the skis.
10:43She got scared for some reason, turned sideways.
10:46These two females were together. Somehow she pulled her into the water.
10:50They both were off the skis, floated right into 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.
11:01Yes, we did have a couple people that were taken to the hospital for some minor injuries.
11:07But as long as we're out there and we're trying to help the public
11:11and enforce recreational boating safety, I mean, that's all you can do.
11:25Today is supposed to get right around 108 to 111.
11:28Maybe a little bit hotter right here in the landing zone with this blacktop.
11:32Yeah, I mean, that one's 101.
11:35We are concerned about their temperatures.
11:38We start early and the capture crew is told to try to limit your chase time.
11:46Okay, towels, 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 and that will cool their core down.
12:01Give me those, give me those.
12:03Big towels.
12:05Bigger, bigger towels.
12:08We'll give IV fluids if they're warm and that will cool their core down.
12:12How's the temp doing?
12:14It's dropping a little.
12:16Yeah.
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 from a distance.
12:34Alana is 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 and she is an old one.
12:52You can see that her teeth, she's weared a lot of the enamel off and they're not sharp anymore.
12:58She's nine.
12:59We've had ewe's all the way up to 18 years of age here around the Lake Mead area.
13:07Maybe a little bit rougher winters up north, but I'll bet you she'll go to at least 12, 13 years
13:14of 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 that 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 because they're losing weight and gaining weight.
13:40They're getting pregnant. They're giving birth. There's a lot happening on an annual basis.
13:46That neck size expands and contracts. She'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. Keep coming in.
14:08That's a picture-perfect loading of a ewe. Let's get some more.
14:16I'm Joe Bennett. I'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.
14:25As you can imagine, that's fairly expensive. It's $10,000 to $15,000 per day operating that helicopter.
14:32We're talking a million-dollar project, and we wouldn't be able to do it without these enthusiastic, passionate people.
14:40Good deal.
14:43We just wrapped up the last animal. We loaded into the trailer, and all the animals are looking great.
14:52They've got a slight sedative that lasts for a couple hours, but all in all, the animals are really in
14:59great shape, very alert.
15:01We can release these animals in the Cortez Mountains, which is almost 200 miles to the north.
15:07To see them liberated, it's going to be a treat at the release site.
15:26My name's James Mortimer. I'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, it's bound with whatever it may be, either rope or twine or
15:44something like that.
15:45And there's drag marks and everything, so we don't know what to make of it yet, whether this animal's been
15:49poached
15:50and or it's just a dead animal that was on somebody's property.
15:53The warden just sent me some photos. It's a doe mule deer. No obvious bullet holes or bullet wounds.
16:01There 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 that would be consistent with a bullet
16:11hole.
16:11So it's not uncommon that somebody would want to drag a dead deer off their property,
16:17but to leave it bound and tied like this is definitely worth something investigating, so.
16:23If you're looking at different violations, this could range up to felony unlawful killing of the game.
16:28Right now, we don't have any mule deer open seasons going on. That and none of the meat has been
16:33taken.
16:34So this animal has possibly been poached and left to rot or it could range to a misdemeanor,
16:40just somebody moving that animal off this property.
16:54Travis, how are you?
16:55Jimmy, 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. It's probably been here a couple days.
17:06Okay. So we're not stepping on anything if we go this way?
17:09I don't believe so. Maybe tire tracks at most.
17:12Okay.
17:13This is how it was laying when I found it.
17:15Yeah. Feet are all tied up.
17:17Okay.
17:18There's a ratchet 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.
17:29And 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?
17:36Lots of people walking. That's who found this was somebody walking their dog.
17:38Okay. How long ago did they call that in?
17:40That was last night. I checked it out. First thing this morning.
17:44The call is suspicious. One being that the animal is bound by some rope or twine around its ankles.
17:49And 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
17:56to take a shot at one of these deers.
17:58It 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. So right now we'll just start on the necropsy.
18:09It's starting to bloat.
18:11Yeah. I'm looking at three or four days too.
18:13More just looking at the maggot growth too and then obviously him finding it.
18:21A 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.
18:29You 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.
18:38And somebody didn't want to deal with it and drug it out here?
18:41Yeah.
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.
18:56It's kind of green and would come from maybe one of its stomach compartments,
19:01which could show some sort of internal rupture, whether that's blunt force trauma by a car
19:05or the travel of the bullet if this was shot.
19:12Oh, crap.
19:15Baby fetus.
19:16Oh, that sucks.
19:18She had twins.
19:19Twins?
19:20Yeah.
19:26Wow, that's sickening.
19:35It's usually around this time that mule deer are dropping fawns.
19:39It 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.
19:50Right.
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 away.
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.
20:07So we 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.
20:28See what they know.
20:29Yeah.
20:29Well, if you need me, let me know.
20:30I can come back down.
20:31But yeah.
20:32See you around.
20:32See ya.
20:36It'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.
20:47We 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.
21:00Just make sure it wasn't unlawfully killed.
21:19Like 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.
21:47We'll also do some fishing, try to capture a few, and then we're going to take them back to
21:50some 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, so we'll use this surplus we have
22:02out of
22:02here to repopulate some of those other spots and give the anglers something to target.
22:07The entire boat is an electrofishing unit, and so off the front you've got those two probes is
22:14what we call them, and they'll hang in the water, and they're putting out an electrical current,
22:18and then the hull of the boat is actually receiving that electrical current.
22:22And so we're able to basically stun any fish within a 20- to 30-foot area.
22:26They'll float up to the top.
22:28They're not really immobilized, but it just slows them down, and so then we'll have a couple guys,
22:33Cody and Jake will be on the front, and they'll be netting those fish as they see them,
22:38and 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
22:56with your hand, you're going to get shocked. I have a kill switch back here to shut off everything,
23:01so I'll always be paying attention in case anybody goes in or we need to shut down.
23:07Guys up front, if we see a hazard or rock or anything sticking up, get my attention and wave me
23:12off.
23:19So right now we're just trying to find where a lot of fish are hanging out, so when we come
23:23back after
23:24dark and they're closer to the surface, we're able to capture as many as possible.
23:31Jake, I caught a fish!
23:33Yeah.
23:38So 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
23:49in a 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
24:00defense
24:00from bigger fish. They basically don't, you know, a fish doesn't want to bite that because when they
24:05stick those things up, that's bone and it'll stab into you and it'll make you bleed if you're not
24:10careful. So when you grab them, you always want to either do that, you know, hold them down so they're
24:14not stabbing you or just grab them by the lip.
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.
24:33We'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.
24:52Yeah. 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.
25:12I'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
25:23are
25:23actually in the lake. It's the water they're used to, the right oxygen amount. It's just easier on them.
25:30Best we've ever done is about eighteen hundred in a couple of days, but things look really good
25:34this year. So I'm thinking we'll break two thousand. And then that's two thousand more fish
25:40in the Sparks Marina. So our urban fisheries are actually the most important recreational
25:47fisheries we have in the state. These ones like this out in the desert a long ways away from
25:52everywhere are really cool. But those urban fisheries provide opportunity for basically everyone. So
25:57there's a lot of people that aren't able to drive three hours and come up to a reservoir like this.
26:02And so, you know, by taking these fish and moving them closer to town,
26:06what it does is it increases license sales. It gets kids involved in fishing. I mean,
26:11that's how ninety percent of us started was fishing small ponds in our towns. And
26:16so they're they're super important for us and for the state. Get as close as possible.
26:25Basically all they are is just some mesh netting that will string over that PVC
26:30and then we'll sink a couple rocks in there to keep them from tipping over because when we get
26:35some some wind and some wave action, they tend to roll. And basically it just keeps the fish in their
26:41natural environment until we're ready to take them out and put them in a truck.
26:47After we eat and then come back out, we'll just fish for about an hour and we'll do our boat
26:53versus
26:54their boat whenever it gets more.
27:11I'm Jason Jackson. I'm a game board and with Department of Wildlife. I'm out here today at
27:16South Fork Reservoir. It was built in the late 80s mainly as a recreational reservoir. It gets fairly
27:22busy at times. It is not a huge reservoir. It's fairly confined. Our boats are highly visible.
27:28I'm going to be patrolling on a patrol boat and just going to be checking
27:33safety inspections on vessels looking for reckless operation.
27:44There's something worthy of a traffic stop.
27:49So 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, okay?
28:16Okay. Where you guys are sitting right now in the state of Nevada, if you're operating above a
28:20wakeless speed, it's considered reckless operation.
28:23Okay. So yeah, I don't want to mess up. Since I got you here, I just want to do a
28:30safety inspection,
28:30make sure you have all your safety equipment, your paperwork that's required and everything else, okay?
28:36Okay, enough light jackets for everybody on board? A charge fire extinguisher?
28:42Okay, can you pull them out and hold them up for me?
28:49Okay. Those are all dope? Yeah.
28:52Yeah. Okay.
28:54I see that. That's awesome.
28:57He does have another one? There it is.
28:59Perfect. Do you mind if I take a look at it?
29:01Yeah.
29:01So 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?
29:09You can do any swimming. You wear that one?
29:12Awesome. If you're operating this vessel in Nevada, these can't be in a stored compartment
29:16when you're operating. Okay. How about a charge fire extinguisher? You got one of those on board?
29:21Hi.
29:22I don't think we do, no.
29:23Okay. How about a Type 4 throwable? Do you know what that is?
29:27No. No.
29:28No?
29:29Okay.
29:30Sorry, man.
29:30Yeah.
29:31Okay. Any paperwork registration? Any of that?
29:34We have our registration. We just don't have the sticker yet.
29:37Who bought it?
29:39Me and him both.
29:40You guys are both on the, on the co-owners on their loan.
29:44One thing I'm looking for is just to make sure it's not stolen. Okay?
29:46Yeah.
29:47This is all about the trailer and stuff like that.
29:51Okay.
29:51Nothing you need.
29:52All right. So right now I have no fire extinguisher.
29:55I have no Type 4 throwable. You do need one of those.
29:59Okay? And you're operating recklessly.
30:03So 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.
30:21You're operating recklessly. So that's a whole lot of things going wrong right now. Okay?
30:26This has a tendency to lead us to look further. Is this guy intoxicated?
30:30Why did he not take the initiative as a captain of this vessel to get his stuff together and follow
30:36the rules of all required safety equipment?
30:38All right. And I see some alcohol on the board. You as an operator, have you had anything to drink
30:42today?
30:43No sir.
30:43No alcohol at all?
30:44No.
30:45Okay. Do I have a driver's license with you?
30:47Well, no I don't. It's in my truck.
30:48It's in your truck.
30:49Okay. I buy fishing licenses, unlicensed with your monster. You do?
30:53Okay. So you'll be in ours.
30:54Yeah. Well, we put it in online.
30:56Stand by. I'm going to push off. I just don't want to scratch the guy's boat. Okay?
31:00Okay.
31:00I'll just run in and I'll be right back with you. Okay?
31:03All right.
31:043-0-24-10 on Elko. Okay. You're 27-29. All right.
31:08It'll come back no match. They have no paperwork, no nothing with it.
31:14At 10-4, and be advised, your subject is showing in 10-61 Charles. And it's coming back clear and
31:20current.
31:20At 4 Reno, I copy that. I'll be at code 4-10-6, citation.
31:27Choosing to write this guy a citation for reckless operation because it's more significant in that
31:33somebody 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? I cited you for
31:57operating in an unsafe manner, okay? Because of the fact that people were up there, it is considered
32:02reckless operation in the state of Nevada. Okay. So now you know. I could also cite you for no type
32:074.
32:07Right. No fire extinguisher.
32:10And the fact that your life jackets are in a stowed compartment that are not easily accessible.
32:15But where are you supposed to put them?
32:18Um, I would have people sit on them. Okay.
32:20And just make sure they're readily accessible. Yeah.
32:23So anyways, a whole lot of warnings there, but the citation is for operating in an unsafe manner or
32:27condition, okay? Writing on the engine cover, like I said, which is right. Right, yeah, yeah.
32:30Um, okay, your signature at the bottom is non-dimension guilt. Just promise to appear to take care of my
32:35ticket, okay? So I want you guys to be safe. There's online classes you can take. There's so
32:41many rules of the road and there's so much equipment that you guys are required to have. Right. When
32:59you're on the right side, buddy. Next time, better time. Hopefully. Next time I see you, you'll be riding those
33:04wakes.
33:06Multiple violations that we detected. A citation was issued along with that. I think we educated a few
33:12people and, uh, it changes quickly out here depending upon the numbers of people that come and go.
33:30We just got to the Cortez range. Drove about eight hours, uh, from Southern Nevada, uh, where we got
33:36these sheep. It's a complete different environment, a lot more forage, a lot more water. I've heard that
33:41we could have a hundred people and cheering on the animals as they're running out of the trailers. So
33:47it's, it's going to be, uh, really cool to see Bighorn back there again.
33:56It was one of the biggest captures I've been on and a life experience and the gift to be a
34:03wildlife
34:03biologist restoring Bighorn sheep.
34:20It is just really gratifying to see them in a new place that's very productive and they can grow
34:27and be successful.
34:49Whenever you guys are set, I'm ready. Getting out in the daylight with hook and line and then a little
34:56bit with the electricity earlier today gave us an idea of where there's some big concentrations of
35:01fish right now and we're going to work this damn phase. Bass in general are going to be closer to
35:08the surface when it gets dark. They're ambush predators so the way they feed is they like to
35:13sit in the dark and wait for smaller fish to swim by. Um, so during the daytime they're typically pretty
35:20deep where there's not a lot of sunlight. At night they all come out and move into the shallow water
35:25along the
35:25shoreline and so those bass that we're after are all going to be cruising along that shoreline looking for
35:30those smaller fish. We're watching just kind of keeping an eye on them making sure that everything's
35:38going well and then as they get too many fish because they've got a pretty small live will on
35:43that boat when they get a bunch of fish we'll pull up next to them offload those fish onto this
35:48boat
35:48and then run them back to the live pens we have where we're camped. It looks like actually right
35:55now 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 offload fish in the wind
36:08in the dark and not crash into the shoreline.
36:20This right here is where it gets interesting when you're trying to offload fish in the wind
36:26in the dark and not crash into the shoreline. Are we offloading? Yeah. Okay. And so there you can see
36:36the guys pushing off the shoreline because he's needing help from running the ground. With the angle
36:42we're taking it at right now it's just pushing us into the shoreline into the rocks. It just makes
36:48it tough with this big boat it doesn't navigate very well in the wind. That's gonna hit me.
36:57Got it. I'll just hold us to me. Oh, we got a rogue rainbow in there. That's all right.
37:15We'll run these back. The winds have shifted so after we run the dam one more time if the waves
37:20aren't too bad maybe we'll try to get up on the head of this. Yeah. We'll try and figure it
37:27out.
37:28We're gonna 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
37:39to 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
37:54and the wind
37:55and get these fish out.
38:07This wind is making it really fun because every time you stop focusing on one thing the boat drifts
38:16and you gotta pull yourself back.
38:22So this guy right here is a trout and I mean he's a good fish but we're not trying to
38:27transport him
38:28so I'm gonna 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
38:46you 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
38:58they're
38:58they're putting in the pens right now I think we're gonna be well over 500 fish which is more than
39:04I
39:04expected so hopefully by the end of the night we're over a thousand I think easily we'll be over a
39:09thousand.
39:11So 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 he's 13 now and he's been doing this since he's been
39:29about
39:29six years old and he knows what he's doing as well as just about any of us and so it's
39:34awesome to have
39:35him and he's fun to make fun of so makes me feel better about myself. However he is taller than
39:41me
39:41now 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. Hi 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.
40:28That's a good amount of fish. I think we can
40:30pretty well call it. We got more than I was hoping for and it's getting pretty late.
40:40These fish are going to get loaded up and some of them are going to go to Ripe Hatch Reservoir
40:45in
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
40:55provide more fishing opportunity for the anglers of Nevada. Good work.
41:03I mean, I got more than you.
41:05I mean, I got more than you.
41:28Heute 난 our fish to bat.
41:28Let's do this.
41:28Let's get going.
41:28Peace.
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