If a person is a poacher and the game department can't stop them now, then that same person will still be a poacher after May 1st. Setting rules and regulations and penalizing the mass's based on what a FEW bad apples do is not the best way to manage our resource.

Why not make the penalty for poaching a LOT more painful. If the penalty were painful enough it would do more to deter poachers than a statewide blanket ban will.