Don't be poochin' round here!

Nice job, Mahi.  (No kicks in the nutsack any more!)

 

Way to go Dan

I guess I feel in general that punishment should be related to the provable impact to the resource.

Our justice system just came to a screeching halt. Do you mean that if I steal a $100 for a Billionare I should pick up litter but if I steal it from a Homeless Person I get Life or if I pooch a hatchery fish $100 and $1,000 for a Wild ?? Don't really understand why you would buy a Steelhead Card if you never fish for them that sounds a little paranoid to me, where and what are you fishing for?

Nice job, Mahi.  My vote is for going "Richard Gere" on the guy, but with a crazed weasel instead of a hamster. 

Yep.  Those crazed weasels look like just the ticket.
I can just hear the judge: "Son, as befits your crime of steelhead pooching (section A in the pooching code), and your blatant disregard and disrespect for our fisheries, I hereby sentence you to one month in solitary with two dozen crazed weasels named Bubba for company."

I love how everyone's embraced the term pooching. 

it's stuck in their vocabulary from too much boosting...

Yep.  Those crazed weasels look like just the ticket.
I can just hear the judge: "Son, as befits your crime of steelhead pooching (section A in the pooching code), and your blatant disregard and disrespect for our fisheries, I hereby sentence you to one month in solitary with two dozen crazed weasels named Bubba for company."

 

-FF

I guess I feel in general that punishment should be related to the provable impact to the resource.

Our justice system just came to a screeching halt. Do you mean that if I steal a $100 for a Billionare I should pick up litter but if I steal it from a Homeless Person I get Life or if I pooch a hatchery fish $100 and $1,000 for a Wild ??

You don't seem to have a reading comprehension problem, so why didn't you evaluate the full quote?

I guess I feel in general that punishment should be related to the provable impact to the resource. No card? Sorry, probably zero impact. Low fine, how about some community service helping out Steelhead habitat restoration? Barbed hooks in barbless waters? How many fish were impacted? What's the value of each fish? Fine based accordingly. Killing breeder sturgeon? Taking dozens/hundreds of illegal abalone - Throw the book (a big heavy book) at them. Etc....

What I don't believe in, for a barb/card violation is:

Ummmmmm..........I vote mob hanging.

string him up !!!

  " Bang" ... " Hault "..Ops[sic]...

 Oh Well, .... F#$#@@!@ Poucher Don't Need no Stinking Trial

Don't really understand why you would buy a Steelhead Card if you never fish for them that sounds a little paranoid to me, where and what are you fishing for?

Because I've been told repeatedly, by very reputable sources, that individuals have been cited for not having a card when fly fishing in the Lower American for Shad or Stripers.

Regards,
Scott

I gotta agree with part of what Scott's saying here.  Fishing with a barbed hook and w/o a steelhead card is way way less offensive than pooching abs, gill-netting, taking oversize sturgies...etc.

I'm very glad that Mahi's got his eye out, protecting the resources, but this sounds like a more minor offense.  I hope the small-time poochers learned their lesson.

Nice discussion.

Raise your glasses; I'd like to propose a toost:  to Dan - thank you for looking out for the resources!   

hear ye', hear ye'! three cheers for Dan!     a poocher is a poocher!, no matter what his bark sounds like. 

I gotta agree with part of what Scott's saying here. 

You do realize that the earth just shifted on its axis, right?

I gotta agree with part of what Scott's saying here. 

You do realize that the earth just shifted on its axis, right?

I'll argue with any of you people.   

And I've got your back too.   

It's the NCKA spirit, you a-hole!   

PS:  JK, JK - don't get all worked up!  Scott - I've decided to un-uninvite you to go rockfishing with me!  Everyone needs a Wiki editor - critic around once in a while!   

You don't seem to have a reading comprehension problem, so why didn't you evaluate the full quote?

I did
I just mean that we don't need to look at each case You do the crime you pay the fine What you think is OK might not be OK to Me. I don't think you have to worry about the punishments you quoted pretty sure the court wouldn't dish them out even in Ukaih

I just mean that we don't need to look at each case

I see. So according to that statement, we could set a fixed, mandatory fine for being over limits on a species of say $500. And then then apply it equally to the newbie that brings home two Boccacio (thinking they are "rockfish") and the guy caught with 50 Abalone, or 10 Sturgeon. Each pays $500. No need to look at each case, right?

Regards,
Scott

Way to bock'em Daniel.
Hey I heard through the grapevine that your going to have a yard sale soon on fishing equipment
When I read stuff like this I get a w#$%y and start to miss it.... Great job SARG.

we could set a fixed, mandatory fine for being over limits on a species of say $500. And then then apply it equally to the newbie that brings home two Boccacio (thinking they are "rockfish") and the guy caught with 50 Abalone, or 10 Sturgeon. Each pays $500. No need to look at each case, right?

Nope the courts already provide for that, I just don't think we should lighten someone's fine for no impact. How do you know it was his first time or he won't do it again if he just gets a slap on the wrist.