Field Notes Funnies
I found these on the fish comm website:
http://www.fish.state.pa.us/streamnotes.htm Too Good to Keep to Myself Into fall and waiting on the winter ice, officers catch up on office work, serve warrants and do other tedious activities that they don't have the time to do during the busy season.
One sunny day in October I was with my neighboring officer (name withheld) and we were serving one of my warrants. It was a nice day but chilly and about 50 degrees. We were able to track down the individual at work. After talking to the individual he agreed to go to the bank and pay off the warrant in full but needed a ride.
We agreed to transport the individual. As I was clearing the back seat for transport, my partner performed the search on the individual. Having a job in a factory, the fellow had a button down shirt with breast pockets. Staying tuned to my partner and what was being said, I suddenly turned my attention to my partner and the individual when I heard what is this?
When I looked up I saw that my partner had his hand on the individual's breast pocket. The look on the individuals face was priceless as he muttered "That's my nipple, I'm cold." As the shock left my partners face, we all began to laugh at the situation including the individual. After which we took care of the warrant and took the individual to the bank and then back to work.
Sometimes things happen that even though are embarrassing are still too good to keep to yourself.
WCOChad Doyle, South Central Crawford / Eastern Mercer
That's going to cost you some money WCO Smolko and I were just pulling out of Walnut Creek Access after a late night of steelhead patrols. As we both pulled onto Dutch Road we could see a faint light being used streamside in a section of Walnut Creek (Manchester Hole) that was closed to fishing due to the late night hours. Quickly we moved into a position to watch the would be poacher. I watched as this poacher, would move from one side of the creek to the other in order to get a better angle on the large pod of steelhead holding up in the big hole. The poacher would just walk through the water in his sneakers and blue jeans and pull large hooks and split shot from his sweat shirt that he would crimp to his hook's shank.
After several attempts to snag a steelhead the poacher finally snagged a steelhead by the dorsal fin and pulled it in sideways from the north bank of the privately posted side of Manchester Hole. Then as the poacher moved further upstream towards the chutes and continued attempting to snag, I made my approach and intervened before any more steelhead would be snagged. As I lighted him up with my flashlight from the opposite bank and gave him specific instructions as to not touch his tackle, which he promptly ignored and after several repeated commands, the poacher snapped off his self made snagging hook and tossed it deep into the woods before he came across Walnut Creek to my location.
When I asked the poacher why he had just completely ignored my instructions and tossed the snagging hook in to the woods, he said "I had to change hooks." I politely responded That's going to cost you some money." Consequently, WCO Smolko and I escorted him back to his vehicle in the parking lot at Walnut Creek Access. Shortly after seizing his fishing tackle and one illegal steelhead, I issued this poacher six citation's totaling eight hundred and eighty dollars. After issuing the citations, the poacher indicated that his wife is going to be mad because she told him not to come up here tonight, plus he just got a citation from the State Police on the interstate driving up to Erie.
WCO Brook Tolbert, Erie County
post edited by cbeagler - 2012/04/22 13:31:31