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I'll give credit to Anderson and karlesonn(sp)

 

Man they held it down

 

Karlesonn is crazy good and his stamina is beyond belief

Good luck. Hopefully your house etc is all good

 

We get it here often now, and it's rediculous.totally disrupts the fishing.

 

Water in 2014 here, was up 24ft. Yeah, sounds retarded, but it was darn near catastrophic stage

 

According to the water testing, that was the highest it was in like 98 years.

Are you hooked into Manitoba's power grid? LOL

 

Doesn't make sense unless you have everything running on gas.

I can't explain it, it is was it is. Been that way for a few years since neighbours complained of $1200/month bills

 

I just hope it keeps up lol

Gawd I wanna fish your yard lol

Just install some turbines and a waterfall on your property lol

 

I seem to be one of the few not getting nailed on hydro(thankfully)

 

We have 10 people in the house, high school age kids that don't understand why it shouldn't take an hour to shower, and our bill is still only around $120-140/month

 

Best reply in this entire very weird thread.

 

Guys around here complain when not enough poachers are nabbed then complain when the CO's are trying to catch the poachers.

 

Sorta like the guys that complain when the roads aren't cleared of snow fast enough then complain even more when they get held up behind a snow plow.

It's not about COs catching poachers(we all want that). It's how they set up the stop.

 

People were not CLEAR if they HAD to pull over or not

 

That means it was clearly set up poorly.

 

Just have AN OFFICER DIRECTING TRAFFIC so people know what the heck is going on.

I agree the sign could be bigger and higher to be more visible, but it's pretty clear that if you've been hunting or fishing, they want you to stop at the checkpoint.

No, there should be an officer directing traffic.

 

Not some sign you can barely read

Lol, look at that sign.

 

No wonder people didn't pull over

A CO most definetly cannot search your house without a warrant.

Your fish camp if he can claim probable cause yes, but not your house.

 

And I know guys kick the game warden off their camp deck because he just stopped by to talk

I wasn't implying they can search your house, but

 

If a cop knocks at your door would you allow them to search your home for no reason?

 

You believe they didn't have the legal right to search your boat?

If he didn't do anything wrong or arise suspicion. how, or I should say why, would they search you?

 

No difference in your home being searched IMO

Well said terry

If you got a problem with this as a fisherman , you definitely don't want to take up hunting and being a firearms owner.

In my experience it's just licensing hassles.

 

I've never been bothered by CO's while hunting

I'm with Terry and Sinker on this one. When we give away one of our rights, the next one seems easy to let go as well.

HH

Yep.

 

Searching for zero reason is def. A reason to be concerned

 

But im a hypocrite, im fine with boat launch searches(minimal searches)

 

This roadside check seems like an under prepared gong show

Public ramps are a great spot to check visitors but the unfortunate fact is that most poaching is probably done by locals which is why presence and enforcement should take place at the source of the infractions.

I'd tend to agree, but I think it varies location to location.

 

Here we have tons of tourist paying big money to make trips, and they get nabbed more frequently than locals at least from what I hear.

 

But yeah, probably goes both ways

Oh man!

 

A few years back we experienced this and it's no fun at all

 

Get on boiling water asap

A road block on a 400 series highway? lol.

 

So many rebels in this thread. Pull over, and help them do their jobs. If you've got nothing to hide, what's the worst that can happen? They take 20-30mins of your time? Oh the horror!!!

Oh shush, you wouldn't pull in either unless directed lol

I will agree that it has its place as a multi species lure, however most times it gets wacked by bass due to timing imo. Other than a jigging spoon, I would steer clear of spoons in most lakes for bass as there are far more productive baits . That's an opinion though...

I'd agree.

 

Same with other species too

Yup, it's nice they have these but would be better if they patrolled the waters more.

I think that goes two ways.

 

I love seeing them on the water, great chance to bust people drinking, not excercising the regs etc. But the water they have to cover?

 

 

Routine stops at key locations nabs poachers

 

I I'd like to see more on both ends.

 

About 10km from me, a few years ago, the DNR set up a semi permanent spot on a highway, they nabbed ALOT OF POACHERS.

 

If I remember correctly, which is up for debate lol, they set up all summer 2015, loman Minnesota.

 

The locals loved it, tourist not so much.

 

I think it even had a mandatory boat washing station to prevent invasive species

 

Agree 100%

Agree 200%

 

On the rights part

 

Yeah, wouldn't you just ONCE like to make the call and hear back they nabbed the culprit??? Once!!! LOL

Well I don't expect them to call me lol, but I could see them run back and forth all day and I never once seen the DNR

 

My wording was a lil off lol

Grimsby I've called that in before.

 

An American boat loading up a truck every few hours and the vehicle leaves.

 

But I never heard anything about it, as in if they were busted.

 

I called from Canada and they were on the American side near a lodge

I have been stop in a fish & game spotcheck a few times,and they also had the canine unit to smell out fish.....I had fish with me and they checked and went through some things but it was a short 5 min stop and I am glad they are out there and wish we had more of this.......

Im certainly not opposed to it. Just make sure people know they have to pull over

 

In fact it's probably one of the best ways I can think of to catch poachers

IMO if they expect you to stop there should be an officer directing traffic.

 

If not, I wouldn't stop. Why would you?

 

World casting distance record is with a baitcaster, lol.

Off a pier. Your crazy if you think you can normally cast further with a baitcasters. And take out the 15ft rods of rediculous

 

 

I'll load up 6lb nanofil and smoke anyone disputing it

Nice! Im super jealous of these toons

 

Great fish and that plate looks amazing!