I understand your anger Rob. SOimething must be done about this sort of stuff, that would actually irradicate it. These sh!theads come from the same place as the snaggers, literbugs, and rude river assholes. It's also a complex deal trying to figure out why a significant percent of guys are that lame. rolleyes I have my ideas, but most of you likely know what they are, so no use dwelling on it here because it won't do much to help the problem. With one exception. It's what I've posted about a number of times before - dramatically raise fines for these type of offenses. Big money fines along with losing fishing gear and licenses. The states need to get serious and do their job! Soon. With more and more people trying to catch fish and game this stuff needs to be addressed with very harsh penalities. It's just like the terrorist assholes - 'the only thing they understand is the sting'! I've become cynical enough to now think you just aren't going to change these lowlife scum self-serving ****heads without getting appropriately tough. The state needs to act accordingly.

Write your reps for dramatically raising penalties. As I wrote in another thread recently, I'd like to see those caught poaching/snagging/litering get a MANDATORY MINIMUM fine of $500 or more, and fishing/hunting license taken away for a few months for a first offense (first time caught actually). For a second offense, try a $1000 fine, gear confiscation, and license taken away for 2 years. For a third offense it's strike 3 and you are OUT! Give them a $2500 fine or more, take their truck and fishing gear away, give them a lifetime ban from fishing in BOTH Oregon and Washington (regardless of where they live or where the infractions occured)! And if they are caught fishing, or the other crap, after the ban then put them in prison for a long time. Again - make this into law as 'mandatory minimums', so shortsighted non-sportsmen judges won't be able to let the scum off with wrist slaps any more. Since there is no shortage of contiousless dummy's out there (who don't even know or care that plenty of steelhead can be caught without eggs), so a lot of revenue would be garnered from this program to increase enforcement afield. With the appropriate publicity, this would mostly to fully stop the problem. Grow a pair of balls within the WDFW/ODFW and in the legislatures and DO THE RIGHT THING!

RT