Russians taking more than their limit

[2labs]

At least there friendly people

[bod]

Too old to be scrappin

[Skillet]

Dano is a poser. Imo he couldn't succeed in private practice so he got into politics. I was a witness for the prosecutionon ine of his cases he was trying as a defense atty. He was unprepared imo.

Well, that's not so good. I do know he sent Deputy Prosecutor Santiago packing after the Banks gillnettings plea deal. Doubt it was a direct result of that failure, but it happened and he can point to it if questioned.  Hoping continued pressure will help.

[Skillet]

Too old to be scrappin

Wouldnt recommend it. Just keep the WDFW Enforcement number handy, call it when you see an obvious violation.

[PolarBear]

I know they have a HUGE problem with the Russian's and Hmong illegally taking thousands of fish in Minnesota as well.

[huntnphool]

 Huge issue with sturgeon in the lower Columbia as well.

[sled]

Try ice fishing Fish lake by Lake Wenatchee.  Have not made it the last two years but it was getting bad last time I was there.  The game dept was making a good showing then also though.

[rainshadow1]

Interacted with lots of those guys when I was doing salvage cars. They were actually nice guys for the most part, but they honestly believed that if they got away with something it was Ok, or Right, or Good, or Moral. Lack of consequences was their benchmark for moral/ethical/legal.

[LDennis24]

Sadly alot of both Russian and Hmong folks will take anything and everything they can when it comes to fish, and sometimes other items. I kid you not, one time I was Bow fishing for carp on Rock Lake during the heavy spawning period and I had a pile the size of a VW bug of 20+" carp on the shore. I even got 2 in one shot. Anyway, a Russian guy came driving by and stopped and tried talking to me but I don't speak Russian so I just gestured to him with 2 hands to take them and he just popped the trunk and threw every fish in it blood, guts and all and smiled, waved and drove off. Another time, my good buddy growing up, who happens to be Thai and Italian called me up and said his mom's friends (hmong) stopped by and wanted to know how to cut a deer. I guess they saw a car hit it on Hwy 2 and just pulled over and loaded it up!

[bigtex]

Too old to be scrappin

Wouldnt recommend it. Just keep the WDFW Enforcement number handy, call it when you see an obvious violation.

That number is only operable Mon-Fri 8A-5P.

The best number is that of the local WSP office since they dispatch WDFW 24/7/365. Numbers are in the regs.

[Big6bull]

I hate to stereotype but you don't see many Russians fishing legally...

[Rick]

Sorry I wasn't very specific east side Rufus Woods Roosevelt that area any fish they catch.

I've seen it first hand on Rufus. Probably 5 years ago my brother and I watched a couple dudes that sounded Russian keep probably 30-40 triploids.

They were stuffing them in every empty spot they could find in their boat.  Not much for cell service down there so we had to wait until we got back to civilization to contact LEO. I'm sure by then,they were long gone.

[vandeman17]

I was fishing Jameson a few years back with my ex gf. We headed out there at first light during the week and nobody was there so we picked a spot on the bank and started to fish. A few minutes later a lone mini van came down the road and pulled up behind my truck. A younger kid, around 15 or so, got out and asked if there were fish in the lake. I said, "uh, yeah" and no son had I said that, the big side door and back door opened and 4 guys jumped out with lots of gear. Within about two minutes they had probably a half dozen lines in the water and pretty much set up camp. Only the kid spoken broken English and the rest only Russian. For those not familiar with the lake, at one end there is a long stretch of narrow water with a road down the side. There is at least a half mile of shoreline and these clowns decided to fish 5 feet from us. Needless to say we reeled in and moved. 

[Hard2handle]

Wow...its worse than I thought.. I watched a group down at the mouth of the Toutle keep every coho they hooked , this was over 12 years ago. Went back one fall a few years later and it was locked up and no access ?  After watching the same thing at blue creek, I called it a career on the Cowlitz...made me sick to my stomach.

[T-Bone]

At Lake Padden near Bellingham, I would watch the Russians catch trout after trout and put them on a stringer in the bushes. Periodically, an old Russian woman would walk up to the bush and empty the stringer into a bucket and depart/return/depart. A WDFW Agent basically gave me a shoulder shrug and told me his frustration in getting the all too liberal local legal bench to take these violations seriously. Sitting in a Whatcom County court room, I watched an older Russian fisherman cited for not punching his punch card, get off free when the local magistrate fell for, "I don't understand"..."I am new to this country". Magistrate: "PUNCH A PUNCH CARD?!?"..."I've never heard of such nonsense!"..."DISMISSED!"

At Sprague Lake in E.WA, Russian fishermen regularly take over their limit in both quantity and size. I've made a good local Game Warden aware of the problem.

A good part of the problem is cultural; they come from a political system so corrupt that the only way to get anything is to cheat, steal and lie.