The latest: Island County Sheriff notified the city of Langley police department and the Chief of Police called me. Here is what he said in paraphrase and quote as I did not memorize his exact words.....

He said thanks for reporting it and he'd love to nail them sum'bitches as he is sick of dealing with them stealing crab and gear. He said he is an avid crabber and enjoys fishing and it pisses him off that we pay all these license fees and have to abide by these rules and then some tribal members come over and steel right outta our pots and nobody does anything about it. He would love to catch them. he says. He says the numbers on the boat are incomplete or partial so we'd have to identify the boats, which we could easily do. He also says that we would have to identify for sure the people onboard but tough to do without pics cuz they can just say, "wasn't me." The Sheriff's dept and the Langley Chief both say it is impossible to get help from the tribal authorities with much of anything. He also said in the future to not call the poaching hotline (which is another story) but to call 911 cuz it is at minimum a misdemeanor theft, depending on value a felony theft and they have a Sheriff boat that needs some use. They all say they are glad its reported and it was the right thing to have it documented. But not much can be done on this case. The Langley cop was glad we chased em and were yelling. He says he wants to nail them bad, he is sick of them.

So here is the lesson if catching a poacher in progress, call 911 first cuz it is a crime in progress, get pics, then call wdfw. The frustrating part was calling the poaching hotline and having it refer me to another number which was the state patrol. The state patrol hotline refered me right back the poaching hotline......so the poaching line only works right away after 8am.