My point? As far as giving those two guys warnings, is the officer really going to send two guys before a judge because they went 2 fish over on bait fish? Probably not, especially in King County where this occured. Salmon, steelhead, bass, crab would be a different story.
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I know the guys that got the warning and Another bubby's friend which is not for washington. Was fishing Alki dock for sand dabs. He got a ticket for $90.00. His fault for not pinched the bard. I would just hate to see people jigging for shiners to get 90 dollars tickets x 6 or 9 depending on how many hooks on the rig. Its ok the have barbed hooks if you are forage jigging only,but if a fish other than forage fish bits. you must release it.

or you could get a Ticket.

Look up Forage fish and Jigging. Shiners are not listed and are even not listed under bottom fish either.
