If you are out and about and see a warden. Stop and talk with them, get a card. More thank likely they will answer when you call with a question or see something concerning… their response will be way quicker than calling a hotline
I sort of agree. The folks who get most of the credit are the ones pulling out their check books. The ones doing the actual work are often disposable and replaceable.
It is just basic economics, but it saddens me that the haves will always be able to buy their way to goodness when there are so many "nameless" folks sacrificing their lives, blood, sweat, and tears to the effort.
In fact, I just got an email from one at WSC! He is proclaiming that he is not fishing this year! Incredible conservation effort!
Meanwhile many of us have made the same fucking decision quietly and without fanfare. What is WSC, WFC, or CCA going to do to help? The same thing they’ve been doing for the last ten years. Oh, what a help it has been.
I helped get one today I think. Bro took two fish and kept going, that's all I needed to see. Called the hotline and co. sheriff. Saw official vehicles as I drove out.
I have genuine question.
If you're fishing a stocked stream, and you limit out (or any stream that allows retention for that matter). Are you able to keep fishing with a barbless hook and just catch and release? Or from a LEO's pov, they can't prove you catching and releasing so it's just a no-go?
I just got of the phone with the wildlife officer. I'll have to look where it is, but according to him once you have the daily possession limit, you are to stop fishing.
So yesterday, I roll into a rough launch area on the Skagit to do a little fishing at the crack of dawn and less than 60 seconds later a WDFW officer shows up. We had a nice little chat, got his card, and found out he lives close to @KerryS. Good place for him I'd say...
Cool, didn't know we had a WDFW cop up here among the millionaires, meth heads, old veterans and broken down steelheaders. There is also a Sedro Woolley officer and a Skagit County Sheriff deputy up here. An eclectic neighborhood.
I wish they would do that in my area. This is from 2 different systems. The snag gear was at a spot with signs up saying it's closed to fishing. The power bait is a river closed to retention. I have been sending to the TIP Hotline and hearing nothing back. I didn't have my phone at the time but saw knife cut harvested fish in a no harvest river. I need to start beating people up again. This is why I hate people so much. If you are a snagger look out for my bald brown head, you might get your ass beat.
Yeah I know.... Great way to get shot, everyone says that and here I stand..#fuckasnagger
I wish they would do that in my area. This is from 2 different systems. The snag gear was at a spot with signs up saying it's closed to fishing. The power bait is a river closed to retention. I have been sending to the TIP Hotline and hearing nothing back. I didn't have my phone at the time but saw knife cut harvested fish in a no harvest river. I need to start beating people up again. This is why I hate people so much. If you are a snagger look out for my bald brown head, you might get your ass beat.
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Yeah I know.... Great way to get shot, everyone says that and here I stand..#fuckasnagger
Couple of cycles ago of pinks and fishing the green. I was at a run and a gut was on other side. He would toss gear all the way to my side. I saw that it was a triple hook, he would rip it through the run, then run off.
Jay, do you realize that they are also out enforcing small game and big game hunting, upland bird and waterfowl hunting? They are pulled from a thousand different directions every day.
Maybe you should join their forces and become a WDFW enforcement officer.
My son was working on that just before COVID hit. They are relying on him heavily at his current law enforcement job right now however.
Lately I've been wondering about a river keeper system. I don't really know the English system, but someone like me who's on the river a lot and can keep an eye on the river, poachers, dumping, spills, clean up, water quality monitoring ect.
Well shit. I'm pissed. Took a box of weekend meals the neighbor made over to a friend. He's kinda house/ yard bound, and lives near where I saw the poacher.
Still don't know the disposition, but we now have a set of eyes, who's friends with the sheriffs office, to keep watch. He only lives about 40 yards from the river with a great view. This is not normal at all.
Well shit. I'm pissed. Took a box of weekend meals the neighbor made over to a friend. He's kinda house/ yard bound, and lives near where I saw the poacher. View attachment 296193 View attachment 296194
Still don't know the disposition, but we now have a set of eyes, who's friends with the sheriffs office, to keep watch. He only lives about 40 yards from the river with a great view. This is not normal at all.
Bottom line.....not enough officers to effectively match enforcement needs....
because the state diverts money from wdfw......and the powers that be that are not in wdfw don't give a shit.
I disagree. Due to the lack of adverse consequences for committing crimes, we have created a situation in which crime does pay, and rather well at that.
Some one recently posted on Northwest Fishing Reports their prized catch of two unclipped Coho from the Snohomish River. Not the first time I have seen this on their site. I believe the limit of 4 salmon allows for just 1 hatchery coho.it appears that this post has been removed.
Some one recently posted on Northwest Fishing Reports their prized catch of two I clipped Coho from the Snohomish River. Not the first time I have seen this on their site.
The one hatchery fish limit is working out great on my local rivers for coho. People are just keeping two wild or hatchery. They are aware but realize they won't get caught. Besides they need to justify the gas bill from driving so far ........
Just make sure you foreigners stay away from MY local: The Sammamish Slough. If you don't, you better bring spare trailer tires. Us squawfish boys don't mess around and there ain't enough to go around.
I have a ridiculous wannabe-poacher story. Back in the early 1980s, I knew this guy I nicknamed, “Howweird.” Though I’ve known hippies who were very smart, intelligent, and capable people, H-W was what some might refer to as a “dirty hippie.”
So one day he tells me and some of my friends that he got himself a big salmon net to poach some fish out from the Hiram Chittenden fish ladder. His plan was to sneak out late at night and get himself a salmon. I don’t recall if we actually said anything to him (maybe brought up the matter of trespassing?), but I do know the look on our faces said, “I don’t know about that.”
The next time we saw him, we had to ask. Apparently, he did sneak out there some time after midnight and jumped down onto a metal platform where he could dip net without anyone seeing him. What he didn’t foresee was that doing so lit off an alarm.
Dude near shit his pants and ran off without his net. Pretty certain Howweird swore off trying it again.
And yes I know how absurd I sound like I own the river or something. I realise I don't. I just lose my marbles sometimes when faced with not only giant crowds but the zero etiquette that goes with it. Case in point is that I was fishing via drift boat the other day and came upon another drift boat anchored on some prime water. We all passed by without fishing that spot with a healthy buffer as to not low hole anybody. That same boat load of folks had no problem casting within feet of our boat in the next hole multiple times as they passed. Even anchoring briefly to make sure there were no silvers hiding under our boat as their spinners and floats nearly bounced off the sides. I don't want to fish in a dog eat dog fisticuffs over a parking spot world. I've caught enough fish in life to die happy if I never touch another so it's easy to be courteous. It just pisses me off at times to exercise this courtesy and not have it even attempted in return.
wait, i thought the more people fishing the more protected the river is.
those guys were just trying to catch those fish under your boat so you were not scaring or abusing them if you catch em! #conservation . you invaded the fishes safe space by anchoring there.
If I want those fish under my boat to get caught, I'll catch 'em myself!
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