Walleye poachers, news article with names

[the local angler]

the thing i am surprized about is the age of those guys.

[Pikey]

Shoud have confiscated the vehicles they used to get in there.

Glad they post names, let everyone see what a true loser looks like.

[mach123]

It's a joke these fines, nothing is gonna change with small peanut fines and stuff like this. Again only in canada you can get away with this, put in jail for a yr and 5000 fine each and 300hrs comunity sevice work, then will see what they try next time.........

[BeeGuy]

Originally Posted by Wild&Free

federal or provincial? I think you might be onto something.

both

one at a time though

[WhitefishLady]

Thanks for sharing! Glad they got caught but wish the penalties were greater too. Makes it so hard for walleye fisheries to recover with poaching

[Hunter Trav]

Originally Posted by Sooner

When I fished Graham lake every long weekend in may(before wife and kids came along), that was 20 yrs ago, Vandersteen was do able with a plane or go up the river. I assume the quads and 4x4's have found their way in. Is that how a walleye filled backwoods lake becomes collapsed? Weekend warriors or is the lake getting netted too? Glad the poachers and vandals got caught. I hope their lawyer fees were big too.

You can drive a pickup in there now, trail has been there for years. Lots of people didn't know about it, but I guess word got out...

[Kokanee9]

Originally Posted by Wild&Free

sunk a boat and tossed the motor into the lake... should of been fined more, with community service hours attached imo.

I like the community service idea.

Lawn cutting, tank scrubbing and window cleaning duties at a fish hatchery would seem appropriate.

[Wild&Free]

Originally Posted by Kokanee9

I like the community service idea.

Lawn cutting, tank scrubbing and window cleaning duties at a fish hatchery would seem appropriate.

EXACTLY, make reparations to what you damage. Should of put them cleaning F&W offices and grounds, cleaning up lake camp sites, clearing trails, working with fisheries biologists in the muck and scum of some stagnant bodies of water. Have them put back into what they took from. Instead of just writing a cheque and carrying on.

[SCHOOCH]

Glad to see that F & W caught these morons, i would really like to see a huge fine for the destruction of someone elses property and a enviromental charge for putting gas/oil to the bottom of the lake.........their fines are a slap on the wrist and their ban from fishing for 2 years each should have been 10 years each at a minimum.

[Wild&Free]

Originally Posted by SCHOOCH

Glad to see that F & W caught these morons, i would really like to see a huge fine for the destruction of someone elses property and a enviromental charge for putting gas/oil to the bottom of the lake.........their fines are a slap on the wrist and their ban from fishing for 2 years each should have been 10 years each at a minimum.

If you look into some of the fines handed out for environmental damages caused you'll see they are an even bigger joke.

[mach123]

I agree, they always talk about these huge fines for distruction of land,lakes fish and private property, but always get reduced or the lower end of the scale. No wounder people keep doing things like this,hmmmmmmm

[huntsfurfish]

This is nuts!

perspective?

They got plenty for what they did.(IMO).

A speeder going 30 over and puts others at risk and gets a $200.00 ticket?

Sounds to me like their fines were large enough.

[Wild&Free]

Originally Posted by huntsfurfish

This is nuts!

perspective?

They got plenty for what they did.(IMO).

A speeder going 30 over and puts others at risk and gets a $200.00 ticket?

Sounds to me like their fines were large enough.

I think the fines were sufficient. That is a fair chunk of change for a man in his early 20s. I'd just like to see the punishment fit the crime. They took something from nature (and the other 800'000 license holders in the province) and don't have to return very much back to it. Those 20 fish represent another many thousands of fry next spawn, and tens of thousands more for every successful generation afterwards.

Just like that punk kid who spray paints graffiti on a shop window. He gets probation and/or community service, but that community service is not cleaning the window he defaced, no that's up to the shop owner to fix. Our legal system as all about who gets paid (the lawyers), not righting the wrongs someone committed.

[sniderscott]

I hope these guys got spammed on facebook. I know i did!

[AppleJax]

Originally Posted by sniderscott

I hope these guys got spammed on facebook. I know i did!

Care to elaborate???

[coppercarbide]

Originally Posted by sniderscott

I hope these guys got spammed on facebook. I know i did!

*EDIT* Deleted information. If someone wants to find these guys on FB, get their addresses, etc, it's pretty easy to do, no need for me to post personal information. *EDIT*

Regardless of the difference in opinion above about whether 4k is enough of a penalty, it's very sad that these guys will be back on the water in a couple seasons.

Who knows, maybe even the small penalty they have will turn one or two of them around and get them to show some respect for the land and respect for the next generation (and other people in this generation). Maybe some of them have decent parents that'll have a real chat with em, that's exactly what these boys need.

[ReayMan]

Originally Posted by Hunter Trav

You can drive a pickup in there now, trail has been there for years. Lots of people didn't know about it, but I guess word got out...

i would like to see a truck get in there.....

[Lambo]

I'm just glad those guys weren't asian! The asian haters would have a hay day with this info!

We should organize a vigilante mob and lynch these mofos! jk.