I fish off the public piers in the salt quite a bit during the summer (mainly to relive some of the memories of fishing them as a kid with my dad, not that there's much worth catching off them anymore) and I see a lot of juvenile salmon being kept. I've noticed it more and more since about 2008. I'm talking herring sized fish, not barely undersized. Most of the time it's been somebody who doesn't speak much English and is using a herring jig for shiner perch.

I make the call to the Dept. everytime I see it (which is everytime I go) and have only gotten a couple of responses with a warden coming out. Some days it's only a handful of fish kept, but I've seen people with Buckets over a 1/4 full.

Am I the only one that sees this happening regularly or is there a better way to get a officer out to handle it? I'm curious because it's getting close to time to dink around the piers again and I'm getting frustrated seeing all the poaching.