"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
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From: "fishin' kid"

| i normally fish my local river where it says you need the river license
| to fish but the baliff hasn't gone down there for years so i dont
| bother to buy it plus the river isn't looked after at all and sometimes
| we have to take shears to cut the weeds down to even get close to the
| water.
|
| When i go to lakes the baliffs there don't bother asking you if youhave
a rod license they
| just ask you to pay for a day ticket, i feelthat most lake/river baliffs
are just after
| money and that is why theydont ask if you have a rod license, some
places (e.g my local
| river)dont look after the river and i think they should use the money we
payto make it
| better for anglers.
|
| what are you're thought's about this?-- fishin' kid

Baliffs ?

I know them as "Game Wardens".

My friend has a cabin in the Poconoe Mountains, Penns., and his brother
lived in Georgia. I
live in NJ. Well we went to a lake nereby and we were approached by an
older gentlemen with
a 9mm and a Penns. badge. He asked us both for licenses. We both
produced "out of state"
licenses and we sat down for a little while and had a nice chat.

Here in NJ evey so often an unmarked blue Chevy Caprice will show up on my
beach. The only
identifying mark is the "SG" on the license plate. He isn't there to
check licenses, he is
there to check to make sure the Fluke are the minimum size or other Salt
Water regulations
are not breached.

Having Fish & Game licenses and fines doesn't bother me. Hell, it helps
raise funds for
stocking programs. What I object to is the minimum size for Fluke is
16.5" and the average
fish falls well below maybe maxing out at 13".



I could live with 16.5 " for fluke.
In NY and Conn it's 17.5".