DFG at TC 11/15

I got my 3 on Sun, hit the beach, filled out card, went to car. Pretty simple.

I had bunch of zip ties, a towel & FOUR pans in my dry bag last Sun. Forgot my scissors at the camp, but used a line cutter on my PFD.
I had an bad pen experience before that went through two pens & have to wait there until the pens dried.

I have a friend who works for DFW as a biologist (not ATD). He had a bad pen experience & the warden gave him a ticket. He told him that he use to work on abalone too, but the warden just told him that then he should've known better... It sucks, but can't not laugh about it... I still give him a hard time when I see him.

That's when you hire a good lawyer out of principal.  I carry three pens and they were in zip locks and dry bag but still somehow got wet before. I also misplaced my dive knife once and couldn't cut the slips off.  Luckily someone came by and they said they had scissors in the truck.  So I filled out tags while they got them.  Now I carry small mustache scissors with tags. Issues like these happen and those are chicken s#!+ wardens that can't see the difference between an honest mistake or misfortune vs someone who deserves a ticket. They should read this and get a clue.  If they want people to report poachers and follow the rules they need to be more flexible to those trying to do the right thing.  I in no way believe statements like the supervisor will not allow them to make judgement calls.  That's just BS and everyone knows it.

It's very true...
That's why I thought the yarn barb test was BS too, cuz you can tell apparently a person try to follow the rule.  No fisherman likes poachers (I believe even the poachers don't like poachers), so I think this type of bad publicity/attitude creates antitrust & anti-corporation on wardens... Sad...