I'm 67 and have been checked twice. Once on Reelfoot as a kid with my dad and once on a local lake.
I'm 67 and have been checked twice. Once on Reelfoot as a kid with my dad and once on a local lake.
I’ve been checked a lot in nc. Had one almost knock me in the water and didn’t even apologize.
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I’ve been checked with my girlfriend and she didn’t have a license but wasn’t fishing. She doesn’t need a license to ride in a bass boat.
Once and it was in my truck, game warden let me drivr boat to the ramp about 2 miles away and come back to show them I had it.
A few times. My wife is handicapped and we meet the exemption. She doesn’t need one and I don’t have to have one if she’s fishing. Only one guy asked me, I showed it, then I asked if I needed it by the book. He was a young guy and I didn’t push it. Just gave him something to think about. (She must be actually fishing for that to apply to me, though)
I’m just saying they don’t do it that way around here. If they did I would have thrown out in court. They can’t right you a ticket for doing something you didn’t do. Now if you got rods and tackle out then yeah I don’t think they need to catch you in the act. If you watch game wardens around here they will watch people through binoculars before they approach people. I never said any about making a scene either.
Maybe 4 times, hunting and fishing combined, with me closing in on 63, not many times. All my encounters have been good.
When you purchase the license you are agreeing to the privileges that license gives you and there is reasonable expectation to show that license along with other ID if requested by law enforcement from the issuing agency.
Kinda like trying to refuse a boat check. Hood luck with all of that. You might get tickets, arrested and lose your license.
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I get checked once or twice a year here in AZ, Once I was cited. I had bought a new license 2 weeks earlier, Dec. Did not notice the girl at the counter sold me a license for the same year, not the next year. I explained and the Game & Fish guy could see the purchase date, but he gave it to me anyway. Went back to the store, exchanged for a next year license and sent a note to the court. Dismissed. That was when our licenses ran on calendar year. Now they are 12 months from purchase.
Been checked a bunch. Just show and they go.
Maybe a half dozen times is all, no problem with it.
Craig
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Mark is right. In Texas the GW " STATE POLICE" have total control. Been there and done that. If they say your wrong, YOU have to prove you're innocent. And the Justice of the Pease will still charge you court cost. It's a loose - loose down there.
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"No not in the dang parking lot , you can refuse a boat check and no fishing license required in parking lot , this is America"
If you get involved with Texas GW . You'll rethink if you are.
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