Come to Oregon and you'd better have a current lic. in hand. The Oregon State Police do 90% of the game checking ... and they have 'guns and back-up.'

Never could figure out why Washington/Calif. didn't do the same. We've got very few game guys/gals out there but lots of OPS. History, and probably a repeat, but last fall found 6 folks using illegal gear. the first four (all were within a 100 yards of each other) told me to ... well, "piss off." Wrong answer. The other two were a young couple whom I riigged up with fly end tackle, bobbers, etc. (all quite legal).

Called OSP on my cell phone and the officer was there in about 15 minutes ... and wrote about $1,200 worth of tickets.
Yes!!!
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