Thanks Jim. Guys like that deserve to have their fishing gear confiscated and a big
fine to boot, and maybe even a loss of their licenses for a while, if they had them in
the first place. I'm curious. Not that it makes any difference, but did you notice if
the poachers were fly fishermen or gear guys or maybe bait flingers? Were they hostile
when you confronted them? Bob
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Title: Re: Cedar River: poachers!
Good for you Jim - you're an example to us all. Thanks for your
efforts on behalf of our fish.
Kent Lufkin
I was sad to see three guys come to their
pickups last night with two really nice looking trout on a stringer.
I confronted them about it and schooled them on the regs. These
(sloping forehead) morons did exactly as would be expected by
their sort: played dumb... wait, were they playing?
What they don't know is that I wrote down
their license plate numbers and called the poaching hotline. I
was told that the officer will run the plates and knock on their
door. The officer is supposedly going to give me a followup
phonecall to let me know the outcome. I'll post again if I get a
callback to let y'all know what happened.
The phone number for the poaching hotline
is 1-800-477-6224. It's open from 8 am to 5pm and you can
leave a message after hours. I was glad to hear that they will
actually confront the people after-the-fact by knocking on their
door. I was afraid I'd hear "there's nothing we can
do." That was a relief.
Let's not let those idiots ruin what I
consider the best trout fishery on the West side of the state.
Turn the b*st*rds in!!!
-tight lines all-
Jim Speaker
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