The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

troutnut wrote:
Do you really think that law prevented one poacher from fishing without a license?

I didn't really like that law either but it did make it easier for DFG to see from a distance who had a licence and who didn't. I on one occasion saw a warden with binoculars spot someone on the other side of the lower Kings river without a license and watched him direct another warden to his position so yes, I do believe it helped.

We have had car registration sticker on the backs of our vehicles for 90 years, but I can drive down the freeway right now and see at least 3 cars in the first mile with expired tags without even trying hard.

You're exaggerating things again. That kinda kills your point when you do that. But as far as tags go... Cops can't pull someone over just to check them out so if we didn't have to place our tags on our plates they wouldn't have anyway to know who had them and who didn't so that's probably not the best parallel




Last week I drove thru a field sobriety checkpoint, where they check you for CDL, insurance card and they check your registration stickers, there was an entire line of people flipping a left turn before the checkpoint with expired tags.

You're exaggerating again dude. You saw a whole line of people turning around? BS. There are extra cops(usually on motorcycles) at check points that chase down the cars that turn around anyway.

My new fishing license was printed off my computers printer, on beige paper, lets see a DFG warden with binos figure out if that is a real license or not from 200 yards.

That's excatly why they decided to change the law.