Game Wardens

My experiences havent been bad. I've been checked at the boat ramp a handful of times and in Canada a bunch. Most of those were because I was driving my grandpas truck and the warden was curious. Overall, they have been laid back checks.
 
I've been checked mostly as a high school kid or young adult but mostly counting life jackets. Which was probably just looking to see if we were drinking.

Sometimes checked for fishing licenses. Once I was on the shore and had just found my grandfather's bamboo fly rod. There was no fly on it but he still wanted to see my license. So I had to go up to my car at the cabin and get it.

Been checked at a wildlife area for steel shot and the plug when I was in high school.

A few years ago my dad and I got checked for our etags. My dad had been confused on if he had etags and had no paper tags. The warden was very cool about it and wrote a note so we could stop at the check station and have no issues. I would've shaken his hand if not for it raining and him being in his truck as we talked.
 
Just like everything else in this world they are good and bad ones…

saw some that has let a honest mistake slide, while I’ve saw others pull every item in a vehicle out over 1 turkey feather a kid picked up In the Mtn and carried back to the truck..and never offer to put it back when discovered they was wrong ..
 
I've had plenty of good and a couple less than good interactions. One of the bad interactions was primarily my fault in my young and dumber years.

I wish they'd do a lot more of the decoy deer stings to keep the road hunters from being road poachers so frequently.
 
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