I am now a law breaker...

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

Fished the Skok on our annual trip to camp at lake cushman. Took 2 kids down to see if i could get them into there first salmon, well cody has caught a few. I was running bobber and eggs amid all the snaggers and my eggs were good. I had 17 bobber downs and i hooked 12 of those. I handed the rod off to Noah who had never caught a fish before he landed a bright jack about 3 pounds. He put his rod down because he was done.  So cody stayed with me casting his spinner as i will not let him snag fish. I hook a nice fish and hand the rod off to cody and he lands a darker buck but he wanted to keep it. He is done and out of the water. I landed 2 more fish that i released and we walked out with 2 fish. The warden met me at the gate and was rather nice. He checked our licenses and our fish and thought we were going to be on our way. He took me aside away from the kids and talked to me about handing the rods off to the kids. He commended me for getting them out fishing and for using eggs instead of snagging but i can not hand the rod off to the kids. Sorry i am not going to go out and catch 20 fish and have my son watch in boredom, i am going to hand the rod off to him at all times. I want him to love fishing and catching.

So i get a ticket for unlawful attempt to excede limit-to continue to fish after fish was retained. 162 bucks to Mason county. i didn't retain a fish.Well i guess i am just going to pay it. I really don't think i am guilty of trying to excede the limit but oh well. I think that is a stupid rule and i know the game warden was just doing his job but it is a stupid rule...

I figured that the 8 hours off and the fuel to get up there would excede the cost of the ticket.

So not i am a lawbreaker...

[robodad]

You can beat it easily, just bring up the fact that if you were in a boat that all of you would still be fishin till the "Boat Limit" is retained !! Your right it is a stupid rule and it should have an exception for youth in it !!!

Good luck but fight it !!

[dontgetcrabs]

You should have been locked up!    Sorry to hear that, seems like there is no common sense in the world anymore.

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

The boys have no idea what happened. They were on cloud 9 with there fish. Thankfully the warden did it away from the kids.

[BigGoonTuna]

sounds like a *censored* ticket.  i've always been understood that the person who LANDS the fish is the one who is required to put it on their card.  since you didn't punch a fish already, i would have thought you'd be in the clear.

takes a real *censored* warden to pull something like that, especially when there was almost certainly someone breaking the law within a stone's throw of you down there.

[NW-GSP]

my dad use to do that for me as a kid and the worst thing it probably did was keep my interest up in fishing, sorry you had to go through that

[Luke9686]

All I have to say is WOW.  I love and respect all L.E. officers, but sometimes it seems like they need to use some discretion.  I would have had a few choice words for that officer, respectfully.

[G.R.K]

You should have been locked up!    Sorry to hear that, seems like there is no common sense in the world anymore.

It's all on how you look at it. the laws are what they are.

[ICEMAN]

All I have to say is WOW.  I love and respect all L.E. officers, but sometimes it seems like they need to use some discretion.  I would have had a few choice words for that officer, respectfully.

 

[Antlershed]

You can beat it easily, just bring up the fact that if you were in a boat that all of you would still be fishin till the "Boat Limit" is retained !! Your right it is a stupid rule and it should have an exception for youth in it !!!

Good luck but fight it !!

I don't believe that would be a valid argument. I'm pretty sure "party fishing" is only legal out in the salt.

[boneaddict]

WOW, never would have crossed my mind either.  I guess we catch and realease mostly, so maybe that has what has kept me out of the "clink".   I'm glad he was respectful to you and the boys.  That showed some class.  That ticket sucks. 
The fact you weren't snagging, the fact it was for youth, the fact you didn't try to exceed your limit.  The fact you didn't notch a fish and quite when they wre done, the fact the tribal guys probably had boatloads of them nearby, all should have went to some lineancy I would think. OUCH

[runamuk]

WOW, never would have crossed my mind either.  I guess we catch and realease mostly, so maybe that has what has kept me out of the "clink".   I'm glad he was respectful to you and the boys.  That showed some class.  That ticket sucks. 
The fact you weren't snagging, the fact it was for youth, the fact you didn't try to exceed your limit.  The fact you didn't notch a fish and quite when they wre done, the fact the tribal guys probably had boatloads of them nearby, all should have went to some lineancy I would think. OUCH

 

unbelievable 

[GoldTip]

Here is my   on this issue.  Very good of the Game warden to have gotten you away from the kids to have a chat with you, but that is all that should have been done.  He could have quite easliy made you aware that it was illegal to do what you were doing while commending you for taking your kids fishing, and you would have walked away with just a little more respect for the WDFW.  

[Gobble]

That is such crap , I do that all the time, Lots of times its not even kids I know. I love seeing their faces as they reel their first salmon in. Heck I have even done for adults that have never caught a salmon. What a real piece of work 

[ing]

Wow! Sounds like game wardens are turning into revenue cops now also.