11-16-2013, 01:06 AM
"Look -- this isn't a biological issue. This is a moral and ethical and social issue. It should be dealt with through EDUCATION. Not regulation. The WB got it right."
[#0000FF]You are talking in generalities. The specifics are that the hardcore snaggers are already well educated in the arts of poaching. They have an organized network that designates who does the snagging and who does the lookout work...watching for suspicious (DWR) vehicles or officers and calling ahead to those on the water. Anybody in violation can switch gear and tactics before someone shows up...or take their catch and boogie out the back door. Then, when the observers depart it is back to business as usual.
This is not speculation. Many of us have watched this going on not only at Willard but around Utah Lake as well. There are thousands of oversized spawning walleyes dragged from our public waters every year by people who are selling them or filling freezers with them. And they do not operate during daylight hours or when there is any chance that someone else in the area may be either an officer or an informant.
Why don't we report it? We do. But unless the infraction is witnessed by an officer there cannot be a citation.
Education? for what?
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[#0000FF]You are talking in generalities. The specifics are that the hardcore snaggers are already well educated in the arts of poaching. They have an organized network that designates who does the snagging and who does the lookout work...watching for suspicious (DWR) vehicles or officers and calling ahead to those on the water. Anybody in violation can switch gear and tactics before someone shows up...or take their catch and boogie out the back door. Then, when the observers depart it is back to business as usual.
This is not speculation. Many of us have watched this going on not only at Willard but around Utah Lake as well. There are thousands of oversized spawning walleyes dragged from our public waters every year by people who are selling them or filling freezers with them. And they do not operate during daylight hours or when there is any chance that someone else in the area may be either an officer or an informant.
Why don't we report it? We do. But unless the infraction is witnessed by an officer there cannot be a citation.
Education? for what?
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