REMEMBER MY FISHING THREAD ....????????????

[WSU]

I was going to let you sit on it for awhile  This maybe the best thing that could of happened  All over a picture of my SON posting a picture on facebook  He was holding a Native steelhead out of the water  According to them you can not take a Native fish out of the water if it is closed for keeping them ...no matter if you turn it loose or not ..You have to either cut your line or keep the fish in the water at all times without handling it ...Thats fine since not everyone knows how to handle a fish ..But wetting yours hands is how I handle a fish I want to cut loose ...I can understand what they are saying ...They came because they thought that Teddy was clubbing fish in the head !!! They searched the freezers to find many fish  BUT NO STEELHEAD !!! They were doing their job and thats fine ...After a 2 hour deal I hope we settled our differences and this will be the end of it ...I told them how I felt and they done the same ...they need to understand where I am coming from too ! I buy every tag this state has to offer and I am not sitting home and doing nothen when I pay for what I do ...that is what it is all about ...I am tired of all the laws they come up with and I have a right to beach about what I believe in ... I am not braking the law like they may think I am ... and now they seen what is in my house ...lots of fish and dead animals that are legally taken and reported I hope they can leave me alone now ...and I will do the same !!

Sounds to me like you got a good lesson.  That law was put in place because people don't know how to handle fish and don't do it responsibly.  Many people who claim to know how to handle fish still hold them out of the water too long.  Just yesterday someone posted a "funny" comment about kicking pinks back into the water.  While there are plenty of pinks around, it still isn't proper fish handling, still is harmful to the fish, and still shouldn't be done.  I've never understood why hunters feel it is OK to mistreat fish but not OK to mistreat animals?  And, I've seen plenty of steelhead mishandled and even some kicked back down the gravel bar to be released "unharmed."  Personally, I hope you got a ticket and learned your lesson (which it doesn't sound like occurred on either count). 

[h20hunter]

Oh here it goes! Where is the popcorn icon when I need it!

[Woodchuck]

 

[Houndhunter]

Wow

[BIGINNER]

::POPCORN-EAT::   

[WSU]

There's always one!  I guess it just bugs me when people get caught doing something illegal then bitch on the interwebz like they are the victim when they get caught.  I guess we should all feel bad for him?

[h20hunter]

Nope....not saying that. Just going to sit back and watch.

[Curly]

I'm sure Teddy learned some things.  Hopefully he learned the proper way to handle wild steelhead, but also, hopefully he learned that if he posts something on the internet that he will get a visit if it looks like something illegal has occurred.

Should be a good lesson for some people on here too............Big Brother is watching (especially if you bitch about them on the internet and piss them off).

[Tbar]

They were able to obtain a search warrant for a Facebook pic of a mishandled fish. Did they take anything?

[woodman]

There's always one!  I guess it just bugs me when people get caught doing something illegal then bitch on the interwebz like they are the victim when they get caught.  I guess we should all feel bad for him?

If I understand this correctly, this guy's son took a picture of a fish before he released it. Then I believe that you think it is justified for LEO to come and raid his home and go through his personal stuff because of his son's picture? That really scares me, what about a person that gets pulled over for doing ten miles an hour over the speed limit. Should the police raid his home because maybe he was speeding because of drugs. Really seems over the top to me.

[Cap.Silver]

What gets me is the fact that this visit must have cost the people of WA tens of thousands of dollars .......for one picture of steelhead out of water ...when I see them on the web every day on fishing reports done by guides . I don't buy it - I think you must have made someone very mad  (I'm not insinuating that your warden comments have anything to do with it )

[Tbar]

What gets me is the fact that this visit must have cost the people of WA tens of thousands of dollars .......for one picture of steelhead out of water ...when I see them on the web every day on fishing reports done by guides . I don't buy it - I think you must have made someone very mad  (I'm not insinuating that your warden comments have anything to do with it )

I would like to see the final report, assuming it is final, and what the cost was. That's mind boggling that they would execute a multi agency raid over a mishandled fish.

[JLS]

How do you know it was multi agency?

[Holg3107]

Like most of BH45's posts regarding the WDFW there are most likely selective details being left out and others exaggerated. The SWAT team? really? Pretty sure that was an exaggeration. Just another drama filled BH45 thread. We should all chip in, by him a crown, and officially announce the first ever official HuntWA Drama Queen!

[BOWHUNTER45]

Was there really a swat team to check for a steelhead in your freezer? 

bearPaw ..you should kmow by now my figure of speech is a little on the shady side  No ..it was not a Swat team but it looked like it in my driveway ...sorry if that was a problem