Game & Fish [enforcement]

[cjcj]

Just thought of this.

I have not been checked for a Fishing licence in over 15 years !

I go fishing about 25-35 times a year.

i only get checked for a hunting licence when i am by a road with a critter hanging in a tree or visable from the road... and then its still very rare.

How about the rest of you guys..Hows the "enforcement" in your area?

 

[noharleyyet]

It's fairly concentrated here in N. Texas. They will come into deer camps or upland bird fields and are very thorough when they do. Lots of fishing checks on the lakes for angling or boating infractions also.

 

[Elkhunter]

Been checked fishing many times. Been checked hunting every year since I have been out here. Even been checked several miles into the hills by G&F during deer & elk season. MEATHEAD & I were coming out on horses and G&F was going in on horses checking hunters.

 

[ELKCHSR]

Out here there isn't many game wardens for the area and the check stations are only open on the weekends, I see the fish cops out on opening day just breezing along, not doing to much checking unless your on one of the popular lakes like George town..

They will check, especially during ice fishing days, because it would be so easy to have over your limits. The guy who took me ice fishing up there said it isn't uncommon at all for the wardens to come by and knock on your ice shack...

We pulled about fifty out the day we were up there and they all looked pretty much like this...

 

[Bambistew]

In 15 years of hunting and fishing MT I can think of one time while fishing, and two times while hunting, and all three times it was because we were right near a major highway... The time while I was fishing, I actually forgot my licence at home, but my girl friend at the time had her's with her and I told him that I got it at the same place... He went back, called it in and luckily the lady who sold me the licence not only know's me well, but looked it up and fired back the number to him, which happened to be in sequential order with my girl friends... And away we went. It would have only set me back about 30 min if I had to go retrieve it... Actually i don't think he really could have got me for anything anyway, since we were standing at the car riggin fly rods anyway... Who's to say that I wasn't just riggn two rods for her?

The first time hunting was opening day of pheasan season... No big deal...

And the last time was when my buddy and I had two good bucks in the back of my truck and we were stopped in town showing them off to my buddy's granddad... honestly I think the game warden just wanted to see the deer more than check our tags, since he didn't even look at the tags and only asked for our conservation licences.

When I lived in WY, I was stopped 3 diffrent times in one summer for fishing. Once was about 2 miles up the trail of the South Fork of the Powder river... the other two times was on a popular reservior.

Not once in two summers in ID.

Never in CO, but I spent most of that time over 30 miles from the nearest town...

Out here in MD... In four years I've never even seen a game warden....

 

[2fastnaz]

I've been checked for at the urban lakes may be 3 times in all the years I've been fishing them. In 40 years of hunting and fishing in the boondocks I've been checked twice for fishing and never for hunting.

 

[MarvB]

Have seen them out on rare occassions but deer season I'm usually too far from the road. Only time I was ever stopped was about 20 years ago and I got a ticket (was later thrown out in court) for my own stupidity |oo

They have HUGE areas to cover in northern CA and, unfortunately, not the funding to do it.

 

[BigHornRam]

I've only been checked twice, for fishing. Now I've stopped at check stations and brought my sheep in to be plugged, but those are areas of enforcement where you are ask to be on the honor system. I think the practice of having sheep horns plugged has been instrumental in reducing poaching of sheep IMO.

 

[Washington Hunter]

I've been hunting for over 20 years and I can think of only one time I've been checked while deer hunting, and that was just this last year when we were driving down out of the hills with my buck. The game warden was driving up, and he stopped and checked my license, tag, and looked at my buck (and said it was the biggest he'd seen all year) hump
Other than that I do remember being checked twice while duck hunting, and we used to hunt ducks a LOT (just about every weekend for 3 months.)

 

[MarvB]

Least anyone think that I may had committed some kind of heinous crime against wildlife in my post above....the citation I received years ago was while duck hunting. CA was just beginning to make portions of the far NE portion of the state "steel shot only" zones and I had (like a moron I might add) left a lead shell in my vest from the prior weekends (where lead was legal) pheasant hunt.

The fish cop was a young lad desiring to lighten his ticket book and gave me a citation for the shell...even though EVERY other shell in my vest and the two boxes in my marsh bag were steel shot.

The fine (and this was 1985ish) was $180 but I went to court and the judge threw it out for $20 court costs! A lesson was learned however hump

 

[waterboy]

Lived in Maryland for most of my life. Got checked fishing maybe two or three times in 20 years. Used to crab a lot when I was young (10) and by myself, so the cops would just mainly check (maybe three times) to see if I was measuring them. All was good. Never saw a game warden in 15 years of hunting there.

In 5 years of hunting PA, I was never checked by a game warden. Then again, I was not hunting public land.

Hunted in WY (1 time) and MT (twice) without being checked.

Hunted in AK for caribou on the Dalton Highway with a bow. Cops are THICK up there. Got checked once, talked to again later on by same cop. They check the meat up here pretty stringently, especially the caribou. All meat must be hauled out. The no discharge of firearm corrodor extends 5 miles on each side of the highway, they fly it regularly with planes to check your distance. By far the greatest enforcement I have ever seen.

 

[cjcj]

Nice trout..Elkchser.. what kind?..and you don`t even look like your cold.

 

[Ten Bears]

I used toget checked all the time on the rivers around here, but not so much anymore, it's been at least three years since I got checked fishing. I think the last time I got checked hunting was back in '90, I was dragging my elk out behind my ATV, and had the notched tag in my pocket, got a warning for not having the tag on the critter.

 

[ELKCHSR]

Thanks CJ...

No, I don't get cold very often, especially that time of year when I have spent a lot of time out in the colder environments..

The fish are as Del would put it... "Gay Bass"...

No really, they are Rainbows and Browns...

We pulled about fifty that size out and kept the 10 between us which is the limit..

It was pulling nice fish out all day...

 

[Bandit]

I haven't seen anyone being checked for a fishing lisence where I normally go in several years. Alot of the places, you can take a small bass boat. But no, I believe they are called, game wardens.