Raystown anglers.............

I hope that they watch it long enough to catch the slobs that poached a hen walleye and left the mass of eggs floating at Shy Beaver.  I have a nice picture of it if the patrol officers need some evidence.  Actually I am not sure that it was walleye spawn BUT I can't imagine a perch that big AND the eggs certainly came from a long slender shaped fish.  Again, I have no problem being watched or checked.  It happend to me Sunday on a different piece of water so it is no biggie!
 
Brent

I know what you mean by eyes in the woods, heck I lived 1 block away from a warden for years and he would still sneek around the lake or stream and check me three times a year. Always checked my license never looked for fish I mean if I have it the first time i'll have it all year. So your dead on when you say you don't want to be harrassed.

I had the same thing at Glendale the warden who lived by us checked us like 3 times in the same year up there, he was very well known in Cambria county for being kind of a bozo, and never seemed to mellow out even when he was getting sick. He passed away last summer I believe.

Being a police officer in VA and assisting our game wardens who enforce both fish and game laws, VA has only one agency not two like PA... Most of the game wardens I know in VA are great guys who love to fish and hunt and want to see that those traditions and opportunities exist for future generations. So I have nothing but good things to say about VA game wardens. Sadly my only personal experience with a PA Fish warden was when I was in college. I was fishing a very swift section of Yellow Creek. The warden requested that I immediately cross the creek so he could check my license and creel. I explained to him crossing there was unsafe but as soon as I could get further down river I would cross. He became extremely rude and flipped out on me. I have had no other experiences with fish wardens in PA. I have also had several bad experiences with game wardens in PA. I am sure there are many great fish and game wardens in PA, and a couple of the game wardens I have met were just that, polite, friendly and just doing their jobs. Being a law enforcement officer is a tough job and being a game warden maybe even tougher, since everyone you deal with is armed! But being rude to the citizens gets you and your department no where in the long run. 

I have met a few decent wardens in my travels both fishing and hunting, but for the most part they all have a chip on the shoulder and a god complex. The warden who lived by me told us he got paid when he went to court and the people he fined were gonna pay up. So it stands to reason that the deputy warden not the ones in charge of the whole region are gonna be out for blood when it comes to checking guys. If I had to draw a line between them I'd say fish wardens are much worse mostly because of the trout issue, that really puts them in the spot-light when they are driving up behind those trucks full of pelletheads and there is a creek or lake full of potential fines waiting for them.

yeah I hate to say it but for the most part the deputys are the bozo's.

I have to say that sometimes the wardens themselves are not the most blockheaded, but the guys running around the wardens and stock trucks in the spring wearing PFBC hats thinking they work for them. Someone needs to tell them, well maybe I am, that they sometimes get in the way of having a decent day off work or just out of the house with all the kissy facing to the wardens. They need to do themselves a favor and act normal, and stop embarrassing themsleves.