OregonBankie

Sorry to hear that you were locked out of this public fishing site. There is no excuse for WDFW not following up on this issue 2 years ago. Maybe now people can understand why I am always getting on top WDFW for not doing the job that we are paying them to do.

Examples like yours I am afraid are all to common at this Public fishing site, and one has to wonder what's going on with WDFW on this issue. This is a perfect example why WDFW continues to loose the public's support, and why people are saying enough with paying more for license fees when they can't even control or protect our public fishing sites.

It appears that WDFW would rather be writing a fisherman a ticket for attempting to snag a fish or for failing to punch your punch card then they would for a guy who locks the public out of a WDFW public fishing area and steals the material that they have paid him for. You got to start asking hard questions like why would WDFW have a big sting operation a couple miles upriver to nail the guys who are not showing or buying there personal use stickers for their vehicles and just down the road, where you paid to use that same personal use sticker, they are allowing a guy to lock the public out of a state owned public fishing parking area, where you are "required by the same law" to purchase the same stamp to use the area. What is wrong with this story?

I sure would love to hear from all those bleeding hearts out there who are always defending WDFW on this board and crying that they are over worked understaffed and underpaid. Where are they now when the facts show that WDFW is wrong and is sitting on there butts for over two years? The next time some one tries to defend that stupid parking sticker that people must now have to park in all WDFW public fishing sites, I would like to tell them to put it …you know where!

When a guy gets the sheriff called on him for trespassing (which I did) and he's on a WDFW Public Fishing Site and has followed the direction that WDFW has given to him to get there and WDFW does nothing to correct this problem, a guy gets a little bit pissed off! It's pretty hard for a lot of fishermen to understand why WDFW enforcement will hide in the bushes to catch a person who is violating one game law and right next store he allows another guy to break the law and lock fishermen out of a WDFW public fishing site! Does the word "hypocrites" fit WDFW in this case? I say yes it does!


Cowlitzfisherman