Keithb
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Post by Keithb on May 16, 2009 19:08:37 GMT -5
We were fishing the south pier today at the end, and saw a few guys fishing the closed side. They were over there for a few hours grouper fishing. A guy dressed in shorts and a t-shirt asked me if I had caught anything I told him one mackerel.He looked over and saw those guys fishing the closed side called them over and showed his badge FWC. They had three short grouper in the cooler. Busted. He talked to them for about half an hour. He took their grouper and put them in his truck which was also an undercover truck. I am pretty sure they had a very expensive trip to the pier.
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Post by goindeep on May 16, 2009 19:33:14 GMT -5
Yup, he paid us a visit too, but he was just passin by. Asked us if we had any luck, we told him no, and he didnt check our coolers.
We were just talkin about how the guys that fish the closed side never get busted....guess we spoke too soon...lol
Not worth the risk, IMO, although Im sure if they didnt have any illegal fish he probably would have just told them not to fish over there.
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Post by eaglesfanguy on May 16, 2009 23:57:46 GMT -5
Cheers to the FWC guys!! Good on ya!
Man how deep is there stoopid bin?
tresspassing, aswell as Poaching! man thats a long stoopid loop
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Post by bcc on May 17, 2009 15:08:34 GMT -5
To bad the FWC cant do the same if they catch with a deer where your not suppose to hunt. Thay would have lost all there fishing equipment and there vehicle.
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Post by SkyJay on May 17, 2009 15:30:52 GMT -5
;DSTUPID IS AS STUPID DOES ;D I gueess a blind Hog finds an Acorn every now and then... On Both Sides. Had to be a couple of them brazen No Habla Immigrants, who look at you and smile like their ticket just hit the Power-Ball, when you tell them their fish is short, as they wrap it in a W-Mart bag, hide it in their vehichle, and piss on the pier. Bastards, are ruining it for everybody. And , I'm sorry but when I think of FWC (at the Skyway Pier) I think of Titts on a Boar-Hog.  (No Habla) |
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no1painter
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Post by no1painter on May 17, 2009 16:03:58 GMT -5
;DSTUPID IS AS STUPID DOES ;D I gueess a blind Hog finds an Acorn every now and then... On Both Sides. www.naplesnews.com/Had to be a couple of them brazen No Habla Immigrants, who look at you and smile like their ticket just hit the Power-Ball, when you tell them their fish is short, as they wrap it in a W-Mart bag, hide it in their vehicle, and piss on the pier. Bastards, are ruining it for everybody. And , I'm sorry but when I think of FWC I think of Titts on a Boar-Hog. www.naplesnews.com/(No Habla) Jay check out this article. FWC at work my nephew. Not the first time he has been in a bust like this. Once got some guys with 4-500ft. nets tied together and a load of illegal fish. I do believe if y they catch you in your boat on the water they can confiscate it. Later, Painter |
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Post by SkyJay on May 17, 2009 16:54:00 GMT -5
Yeah, I know Painter, and no disrespect to your Nephew, or any other of our hard working underpaid Law Enforcement officers for that matter. I edited my post to limit my displeasure with FWC, and their lack of enforcement to the Skyway Piers. I'm gonna keep on bitchin to. So get used to it. If I offended anyone I apologize, but dammit I'm sick of seeing a######s keep everything they catch, like there IS NO LAW! Call the FWC, some might say? Sorry... been there done that my friend... It don't work. Vigilante Justice? I ain't goin to jail over no immigrant F'n poacher again, sorry. Maybe with the increased funds, from the upcoming license/fees increase they will beef up enforcement... But I doubt it. It's like throwing ToothPicks at Elephants... Hope my right to voice my opinion don't mean we can't be pals, but that's by-god the way I sees it.  |
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Post by havetofish on May 17, 2009 17:29:16 GMT -5
Call the FWC, some might say? Sorry... been there done that my friend... It don't work.  Wadda ya mean you got no one you can send? How bout if I cuff him til you get here? No...I see just tell him not to do it anymore...click |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2009 18:06:45 GMT -5
Im also tired of people taking undersized fish and acting a fool on the pier. Would be nice to have FWC out there around the clock.
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Post by jab on May 17, 2009 19:45:22 GMT -5
yeah they keep an oversized snook or red then come back and cast right over your line. then whaen you get a good keeper fish or atleast catcht something they go right to your spot. bet none of them have a liscensce either........
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Post by filletnrelease on May 18, 2009 7:34:38 GMT -5
Saw the same FWC officer Saturday. I had just pulled up a short 21", took it quickly to the tailgate and stuck it on the tape, unhooked it and dropped it over the rail on the other side. Two minutes later this fellow walks up and flashes his badge and asks if I caught anything (know he was watching me, but I was behind my truck and he didn't see me drop the fish on the other side) told him I just dropped a 21" back. He goes to searching my truck from top to bottom, kinda ticked me off a little. The lady and her husband next to me told him I had returned the fish in about 30 seconds, so he finally let up. I kinda lost what little love I had left for the man, sorry I have been harassed a number of times and it gets a bit tiring. Just my opinion, I know there are plenty of idiots keeping shorts or over limits, but I was honest to him and still got treated like a criminal.
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Post by SkyJay on May 18, 2009 7:58:12 GMT -5
And THAT is my point exactly! I guess the good news is YOU caught something... Fact is not too long ago, the fish you released was a keeper. (Unlike the untold number of shorts that go in the bucket every day...) Show up 1, or 2 days outta the month... Hassle/harass the Honest hard working citezen... And turn a blind eye to the ridiculous the other twenty some odd days outta the month... It's sickening, and It Is WRONG. (And that's probably NOT alls I've got to say about that.)  |
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Post by bcc on May 18, 2009 15:58:19 GMT -5
I keep my undersize keeper grouper in the glove box behind my old parking tickets. The grouper my be rotten by the time i get home but atleast the FWC dident see it.
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Post by tylerdurden on May 18, 2009 16:34:17 GMT -5
Well some time those FWC guys can be a good source of info tho. If you get a chance next time your chatting with him, try poking him for some fishing spot info, ive done pretty good by that before
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Post by SkyJay on May 18, 2009 17:28:59 GMT -5
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In order for em to FIND it, they gotta LOOK for it...
Tits on a Boar hog I'm tellin ya!
I suggest MUCH more undercover ops.
HELL, give ME a ticket book...
I'll put some $$bucks$$ ;D in the box!
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