fish cop at nsr easter sunday

[waterninja]

went to nsr at hermitage on easter sunday. figured i'd try it out after seeing all the success folks have been having there. walked in from the trout pond and was fishing for about an hour when a fish and wildlife officer approached and checked out the hook i was using and made sure i had new licsense. he was freindly and polite and told me that most people fished a little further downstream. walked over to the outflow (never knew it was there) and set up again. after f/w checked out a few other anglers he came back to me and said that the old fellow had told him that i had caught(i wish) a walleye and kept it. he went through my backpack and then appolagised for wasting my time. i asked the old fellow wtf and he said it must have been someone else. still had a nice afternoon even though skunked again but I'LL BE BACK.

[Alberta Bigbore]

Nice to hear the Fish Cops making their rounds and doing what they need to do.

[Lefty-Canuck]

Nice to see you had a good encounter with the F&W folks.....too bad there isn't anything they can do to someone making false claim to an offense....

LC

[gl2]

good on you!!!. the old guy was obviously mistaken but i am glad you didn't make life difficult for the co, like some on this forum would have done.

[Paul C]

I am glad to see fish and wildlife are increasing patrols in the river valley.
Happy Fish Hunting

[TROLLER]

Originally Posted by Jet

I have another theory. Unless you did something to upset the older guy to give him an incentive, then maybe the f&w cop was lying and not the old guy.

Maybe the cop has to have a reason otherwise you can claim unreasonable search, like seeing you do it, or getting a report. Seems an easy solution, say someone else said you did something, then they have a legal reason to search you.

Someone wasn't telling the truth, the old guy or the cop. Who do you suspect, the guy who's rummaging through your stuff, or the guy in the same situation as you? F&W cops are likely graded on their performance according to how many poachers they've caught, so there's an incentive.

Assuming it was the cop, then this kind of behavior is a form of oppression, and is the start of a slippery slope, if this happens to me I'll be sure to go with the cop to the guy and ask him why he said that, I'd soon find out if it was a dirty cop or a dirty individual.

Carefull someone may want to see your papers. And if you don't have them well off to the salt mines ya go. yup sounds like a socialist plot to me.

[gilbertslake]

Originally Posted by Jet

I have another theory. Unless you did something to upset the older guy to give him an incentive, then maybe the f&w cop was lying and not the old guy.

Maybe the cop has to have a reason otherwise you can claim unreasonable search, like seeing you do it, or getting a report. Seems an easy solution, say someone else said you did something, then they have a legal reason to search you.

Someone wasn't telling the truth, the old guy or the cop. Who do you suspect, the guy who's rummaging through your stuff, or the guy in the same situation as you? F&W cops are likely graded on their performance according to how many poachers they've caught, so there's an incentive.

Assuming it was the cop, then this kind of behavior is a form of oppression, and is the start of a slippery slope, if this happens to me I'll be sure to go with the cop to the guy and ask him why he said that, I'd soon find out if it was a dirty cop or a dirty individual.

No issue, F&W did his job, apologised. Old guy said it was someone else, likely didn't want to take the blame.
Ninja still had a good day, no one died, all is well with the world.

[gl2]

34(1) A person who hinders, obstructs or impedes a fishery officer or fishery guardian in the performance of the officer’s or guardian’s duties is guilty of an offence.
(2) A person who gives false or misleading information to the Minister, to the Assistant Deputy Minister under section 15 or to a fishery officer or fishery guardian carrying out the administration of this Act is guilty of an offence.
(3) A licensee who does not comply with any term or condition of the licence is guilty of an offence.
(3.1) A competitive fishing event participant who does not comply with a term or condition of the licence applicable to the participant is guilty of an offence.
(3.2) It is a defence to a charge under subsection (3.1) for the accused to establish that the accused was not notified of the terms and conditions of the licence.
(4) A person who alters a licence other than in accordance with this Act is guilty of an offence.
(5) A person who does not comply with an order under section 32(1), (2) or (3) is guilty of an offence.
(6) A person who contravenes section 4, 6(1) or (3), 7(1), 8(1) or (2), 9(2), 10(1), 11(1), 11.1(1), 15(3), 16(1) or (3), 18(1) or (3), 22(2), 23(2), 29(1), (2) or (3) or 30(1) or a provision of the regulations is guilty of an offence.




sounds to me like co's should be handing out more of these tickets if people want to lie about others to make themselves feel better and waste the co's time.

i would also like to see more of the first offence (34) (1) for all the blow hards that think that giving a co a hard time is their right.

[Redfrog]

Originally Posted by Jet

I have another theory. Unless you did something to upset the older guy to give him an incentive, then maybe the f&w cop was lying and not the old guy.

Maybe the cop has to have a reason otherwise you can claim unreasonable search, like seeing you do it, or getting a report. Seems an easy solution, say someone else said you did something, then they have a legal reason to search you.

Someone wasn't telling the truth, the old guy or the cop. Who do you suspect, the guy who's rummaging through your stuff, or the guy in the same situation as you? F&W cops are likely graded on their performance according to how many poachers they've caught, so there's an incentive.

Assuming it was the cop, then this kind of behavior is a form of oppression, and is the start of a slippery slope, if this happens to me I'll be sure to go with the cop to the guy and ask him why he said that, I'd soon find out if it was a dirty cop or a dirty individual.

OMG! Really. Dirty Cop? WOW! I would never have suspected that. Thanks for the heads up. He seemed like such a nice guy too. Well you never know eh? Thanks again.

BTW. what would you recommend as a course of action if he wants to look at my bag with no warrant?

[Kanonfodder]

Lets try to stay on topic here without slagging the OP and Fish and Fowl OK? Otherwise Ill just shut it down...

[gramps73]

Keep in mind this is one of those thank less jobs, maybe try to be friendly and say HI..
Not saying that you were rude to the F&W but come on guys..

[horsetrader]

Originally Posted by Jet

I have another theory. Unless you did something to upset the older guy to give him an incentive, then maybe the f&w cop was lying and not the old guy.

Maybe the cop has to have a reason otherwise you can claim unreasonable search, like seeing you do it, or getting a report. Seems an easy solution, say someone else said you did something, then they have a legal reason to search you.

Someone wasn't telling the truth, the old guy or the cop. Who do you suspect, the guy who's rummaging through your stuff, or the guy in the same situation as you? F&W cops are likely graded on their performance according to how many poachers they've caught, so there's an incentive.

Assuming it was the cop, then this kind of behavior is a form of oppression, and is the start of a slippery slope, if this happens to me I'll be sure to go with the cop to the guy and ask him why he said that, I'd soon find out if it was a dirty cop or a dirty individual.

WOW if your going to make a new account so fast at least don't use your favorite saying right away.

Originally Posted by eastcoast

it's a slippery slope rwm, what's next after this, and how are they going to enforce it anyways I haven't seen a cop in my neighbourhood in weeks, and besides that point they need a warrant to get in your house.I think there are far more important things to worry about.

Or maybe its just me......?

[Kim473]

I would bet the cop was looking for open booze of some kind. After all who would keep fish in there backpack, and who would stick around after keeping an illegal fish and follow the cop to the best place to fish. Only a completely dumb person would do that. But I guess there is the tv show, worlds dumbest criminals.

[huntinstuff]

Hope you got what you needed waterninja

This thread is done.