Admit it.

You are a knucklehead. Ok....perhaps you just have remnant knucklhead DNA that only shows up in front of pretty girls or when your head is overly occupied with fishy thoughts....

....but its in there, and you can't escape it.

Even the seasoned pros have knucklehead days, right TRBO? Your license is in the other waders, the pen is out of ink, you forgot about the rule change, the bait is four hours behind you on the kitchen counter, didn't know you were in Canadian waters, eh?...

...etc, etc....

My most egregious example of knuckleheadism would definitely be June 1, 1992. I was fishing on the upper Hoh with my son. I was approached by a gamie and asked for my license which I had left back in Federal Way in my other car. The guy did the right thing and wrote me a ticket....no big deal.

If this ever happens to you, for god's sakes make the court date, pay the fine...whatever. Just make sure it gets taken care of before iot turns into a warrant. Don't become the SECOND guy in Washington State history to be thrown in jail...



...for fishing without a license.
(the guys at the Jefferson County jail thought it was pretty funny too so they gave me the mug shot)

Damn thing is, I'm only just slightly better at keeping track of the damn thing now than I was then.

Seastrike and lupo should know that they are the inspiration for this thread....

...wasn't there a rumor about TRBO being a knucklehead a few months ago?



I'm sure there was no jail time involved......

You are a knucklehead, come clean....

You've got way too much time on your hands man. Back to that DB in the garage with ya.
I'm going to pay my ticket eh. Maybe after Lupo see's this he'll pay his too.
Just need to figure out how to get a canadian money order here in Seattle.
I didn't realize that you were 60.

I was 24 in the pic.....and pissed.

Damn Stlh2O, are you sure you want to post that picture on the internet? Thankfully you have grown some hair!

I thought I was busted a couple years ago off Sooke. We were trolling with four rigs down when the DFW came along side and asked to check lines for barbed hooks. The only rig down that was barbed was the one they picked. We then were boarded and I proceeded to show them that every other rig, even the ones that were not in play were all barbless. He was letting us off with a warning when he asked to look in the cooler. We had some busted crab in there right on top. He wasn't very pleased about that, but still let us go.

Thankfully, I have no mug shot. Although there is no way it could be as bad as that one.

I was a knuckle head last summer. I decided to try out a new fly rod with a fish. At that time the best place was for pinks around Hoodsport as these fish return early. So I was fishing from my float tube just north of the hatchery. I had CnR 2 pinks already and lost one that broke the line. There was a school ahead of me do I quickly tied on a fly I made the night before and forgot to pinch the barb.

When I went out I was stopped by the warden and he checked my hook. I showed him my other flies with no barbs and told him my story. He then started to ask me if I saw people snagging infront of the hatchery and I told him of a few. It was by giving him that info and showing him my other hooks and talking nice I was able to get by with a warning.

At least I didn't end up being the first guy to go to jail for fishing with barbs.

Hello My Name is Achewter (a duck you can shoot at) and I am a Knucklehead. I always buy my combo license by the first few days of Jan because I do alot of duck and goose hunting near the end of the season. About 8 years ago I was so busy at work I couldn't get away for anything after Oct. Finaly in March we got a little time for a quick trip to Lake Rosevelt for some nice Kokenee. The day before I left I ran down to Outdoor Imporium to grab gear and a license but they wern't selling them so I hurried back to work thinking I would pick one up on the way. Unfortunatly that was the last time I thought about it until the Game wardens boat was pulling up to mine in the middle of the Lake. The gamie was a friend of a friend and we new each other, even had breakfast together and he had checked me at least three times in the past both hunting and fishing. He later apoligized for giving me the ticket because he new that I was an avid hunter and angler but that day he had his boss in the boat with him and he had no choice. I will be 40 in Oct and I have fished my hole life but this was the only time I had ever been checked on fresh water in a boat and the only day I have ever fished without a license. Yes it was fate that I will always be a NUCKLEHEAD.

All been a knucklehead at one time or another ... it happens

Just happy to say I promptly took care of mine ... no argument from me, just paid my $$$ and all is good ... I hope!

Just glad it was 4 fishing and not a neo-nazi crime h20 ... glad you cleared that up, from the pic, I wasn't sure

Neo-Nazi thats pretty funny..............Fishy.....

We were headed for the Gold for a weeklong trip. The deal was I would drive and Clint would pump a lot of sand shrimp.

We met at the ferry at Twassen. Once we were in Gold River Clint discovered that he had left 24 dozen sand shrimp in the girlfriend’s trunk. We decided to call her that night. But by the time we got in, had a few beers, and got out gear ready for the next day, it was too late. Clint finally called her about five days later. By then she knew. Boy did he know! The romance didn't last too much longer. We sure missed those sand shrimp.

Too bad to, they were probably really good looking shrimp too.......Fishy.......

Was going to Maui the next day so I cleaned ou my wallet for the trip. Then of course I decided to go fishing since I had time and off to the river I go. I t was November so I was CnRing chums just having a ball when up walks the gammie,Sir may I see your license! It was then that I remembered that I had taken it out of my wallet,I then explained this to the officer who was actually nice about it. She asked me for my drivers license to varify that I did indeed have a license. When she came back she had my ticket in hand and was very upset with me saying that I should have not lied to here!!! Well as it turned out in court they had screwed up the birth date on my fishing license so when they run my drivers license it did not match my fishing license info so on the computer it came up as I did not have one. Well the judge let me off but yes I was a Knucklehead and it feels good coming clean!!!PEACE

Snoqualmie, Fishing legally ( Actually, done fishing legally, taking drifter out at the raging ramp). In truck, leaving. Fingered, I mean pulled over (yes pulled over) by the fish-cop-lady "Nice lady, I'm lazy, that's all"

(I'm not lazy, just of a naturally retiring demeanor. "At both ends of the social spectrum there lies a leizure class").

Sweet talk, batting of eyelashes, show some leg and muscle ("Which way to the beach?

My 18 year old son was fishing under the Fall City Bridge last year with his girlfriend. He was using a spoon that we had used the winter before during the part of the year you didn't need to debarb the hook. Not looking at the regs cost him $75 plus a felony on his record. He didn't realize (nor did I) that the Snoqualmie has different regs for winter fishing vs summer fishing with regards to barbs vs no barbs. The really bad thing is we both tend to debarb everything and this was the one time he didn't as we had used the same hook in the same hole legally the winter before.

A felony, really? WOW that would really suck and i would have to fight that all the way.Tough break........Fishy,,,,

I am going to pay mine!

that way all of my jail stories will still start with "this one time... after five long island ice teas......."

the ticket still wasnt the worst part about it. the worst part of the trip was when seastrike noticed that i couldnt eat my breakfast so he asked me..... how id like to "smell 2 cycle oil while going down on barbra bush" and i yaked six times on the wall of the Makah cafe at 5AM.

lol... that is to funny.. 2 cycle oil and yakkin..

I have been a knucklehead but my buddy Adam takes the cake. Fishin for springers we have our 2 poles in the water and he is checkin a kwikfish with the extra pole in the boat just watching it when he hits a fish on his legal pole. chase down the native bring it in the boat (forgot about that new release um in the water rule) roll it around in the water to revive it, when he sees a seal wanting to give the fish a fighting chance he whips out the wrist rocket and starts lettin the marbles fly. Low and behold the gamie is watchin all this and asks for are licenses I had over mine and Adam goes oh sh*t. He let him off with a warning (amazingly) and we were done for the day.

Lupo,
Great Story but would have been Funnier if you would have said Hillary Clinton Instead of Barbara Bush!
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