smalma,

Were not complaining about being required to have a sticker. After all it comes with are license! were complaining about the misuse of wdfw resources. Game wardens writing parking tickets at a boat launch where the users are predominatly fishermen with licenses who obviously have a permit but may have forgotten to post it. Also gamies stocking people just to jump on them and make sure there fish is punched imediatly upon landing.
Most importantly on a river where the fish are pretty much all hatchery fish. Mean while I have never seen such diligents on a river that supports a stock of mainly naturally spawning fish. Second off I am sick and tired of the attitude of some of these officers, some are very unprofessional and if they were not officers I would like to give them an attitude adjustment!
I have never had a ticket and never plan on getting one though I have had more than my share of encounters with officers who tryed to write me tickets and would have if I did not know the regs so good! Its a big pain in the arse when the wardens dont know the regs and try to make up there own! I guess you can call that corruption in a way. I and many other people have many reasons to disrespect the wdfw and its only going to get worse unless they start doing what we the sports fishermen who pay there wages want them and pay them to do and that is protect are NATURAL resources not harrass inocent people or people who may screw up a little here and there in terminal or hatchery fisheries. I know I am not the only one who has witnessed gross violations on natural runs and could not get wdfw to even raise a finger! yet they are always in full force on hatchery rivers or terminal fisheries. Going for the easy money and filling there qouta with small timers. Every once and awhile they fall into a good bust and they play it up on the website, that says something about how often they actually do there job! if they concentrated half the effort they currently do now on the small guy on catching big timers it would not be such big news but it would be a job well done. were not stupid were out here fishing every day we see everything that goes on its about time the state stops playing us for fools! Sheep follow blindly most fishermen are quite a bit smarter then the average citizen. Though some of us may not spell worth a crap.