Illegal Fishing Hooks Hundreds of Citations

[XAFSSGT]

A lot of guys I know get that fever about the time they turn 12 or 13.

[JimmyHoffa]

and the cure makes it worse

[gaddy]

Once afflicted, there is no going back.

[Jonathan_S]

"Pink fever"?   

   never was ticketed myself   

[bigtex]

if there are hundreds of tickets written there, maybe just maybe the state needs to mark the river a little clearer.

Mark the river? So is WDFW now supposed to post signs all along waterways saying the water is closed? Most rivers are open and closed numerous times through the year, so basically WDFW should have people constantly placing and removing signs??

How about people just read simple regs....

[gaddy]

Sounds simple to me.

[skeeter 20i]

if there are hundreds of tickets written there, maybe just maybe the state needs to mark the river a little clearer.

Mark the river? So is WDFW now supposed to post signs all along waterways saying the water is closed? Most rivers are open and closed numerous times through the year, so basically WDFW should have people constantly placing and removing signs??

How about people just read simple regs....

[Ebell]

Signage just doesn't seem to work too well.  Too easy to ignore.  Signs posted all around the Big 4 ice caves and people still entered them and we all know what happened there.

[haugenna]

Don't know what to say. I might buy a tag if its G&F kindly opens up a vendor at the trail head and I might fish in an open river if I know it.  I've recently learned on H-W that following the rules seems optional if its inconvenient because hey, some people have jobs and 74 year old uncles unlike the chumps who do things the right way. 

If you see someone breaking the law, head down there and grab his or her fishing pole from them and chuck it in the woods. See how that works out.

[Thehowler]

No, no, no, all wrong, You must chuck it in the river!

[JimmyHoffa]

dummy poles along the river?

[Bean Counter]

 The reality of the situation is I don't fish much. Maybe once or twice a year if that. So if I drove by a lake and saw somebody catching over the limit, I should just mind my own business. If I were going to fish there, I should drive on and find a different place to fish.

[haugenna]

Go down there, grab all of there stuff and throw it in the lake or river or brush. Right?

[Jonnyjammer]

Ive read thru a lot of these posts lately and I gotta say,Most on here are of the op. that if your hunting and you dont know your at and your trespassing then you should know where you are before you go no excuse.Why would anyone think fishing should be any differant?If you go fishing and you dont know the regs where your fishing or even worse you dont know where your fishing then you deserve what ever the wdfw throws at you.You should get cited for fishing closed water,illegal fish, and just for being stupid 

 Ive never seen a river in this state or any other I have been to that didnt have a sign as to what the name of the river was. The regs are very clear,this road that bridge to that road that bridge not very diff.

[Stein]

if there are hundreds of tickets written there, maybe just maybe the state needs to mark the river a little clearer.

Yeah, that works well with speed limit and "stay right except to pass" signs on I-5.

The fishing and hunting regs are hard to understand sometimes.  Fishing and hunting are also privileges which means expecting us to read and ask isn't out of line.  I ask here all the time for clarification when I don't know.  I have also used my boat VHF, talked to guys on shore and even the fish cops when necessary.