Thread: interesting article about Enforcement

If this guy is as well known as some have implied on area lakes, he might have gotten set up to be used as an example because he is so well known. I'll be a lot more careful when I give away fish from now on. I have never traded fish or deer meat, but if someone offers me something in exchange I'll tell them "No!" real quick and move on.

A lot of times after I go fishing below the RB spillway, I give away half or all of what I catch to the old folks on the sandbar fishing with tackle that's kind of iffy on catching anything. I hope that simply giving an old lady fishing with a cane pole that's seen better days a dozen fat catfish or crappie and expecting nothing in return isn't illegal anymore. What's the world coming to, if it is? I mean isn't it a common human behavior to give something to someone who has given you something? That way a sense of being treated fairly passes unspoken between the two parties and a friendly parting of company is created. Good hearted folk don't want anyone to feel cheated. Good hearted folk don't like feeling that they have benefited from someone else's work, too, so they give in kind what has been given to them. That's how new friendships are started a lot of times, too, with a fair trade of resources. In the Holy Bible, we are encouraged to give to others and to be fair about our exchanges, too. God hates a dishonest measuring scale.

I was re-thinking this thing and what idiot would want to trade SHRIMP for crappie, not Crappie for shrimp, meaning someone approached the crook and brought shrimp into it...I mean come on...EVERY PERSON in North Mississippi knows how to catch sac-a-lait and if they don't they have a relative who can. Sounds a bit greedy to me...on the guy who was trading them part. Does sound a little fishy (no pun intended) that they asked for the fish, he offered them for FREE and then they replied with we gotta give you something for them (according to your statements)...BROTHER, I wouldn't take a dollar if I'm giving someone a mess of fish, much less some $6-9 a pound shrimp...I tend to think folks around there knew he was trading (someone just said he had a shrimp boil at least 4 times that we know of) and doggone it the locals ain't gonna have that. They turned him in, the agents did a sting and here you have it. JMO...Foot meet butt

Bow...

In Mississippi, you can GIVE any LEGALLY taken game or fish to ANYONE you want to. BOTTOM LINE.

Thats right, you can GIVE fish away anywhere, so long as it is done per the state regs. But don't think you can swap crappie for deer jerky. That is considered barter. I work for government and I know how this stuff works. I can't even take a cold soda from one of our producers, that could lead me to treat this one different from that one. The guy was busted in a sting, he did it , they caught him. Yes he was well known, yes he catches the crap out of fish. Now he's paid the fine, and doing the time. I just don't want anyone else to get the same thing by not knowing the law. Sac you seem to be very opinionated on this one. What kind of hoops do you have to jump through to legally get paid to take someone fishing?

I'm glad somebody else feels the same way as I do about him...

whats wrong with someone that makes money from guiding?

Not talking about guiding... I'm talking about how opinionated he is on every subject/thread...

EVERY THREAD? This is a message board...A place where we let our THOUGHTS and FEELINGS be known...My problem is I say what I want to crappie123...I'm the last true John Wayne...Not many like me left, I assure you. I think the guy's an idiot. He did it, he KNEW it was wrong. If he didn't then he'd been doing it alot longer than the 4 times for shrimp. I say the dude needs to go back to whatever state he's from.

As for guiding. I take people fishing. If they get THEIR limits, then trip over. I don't jump thru any hoops to guide. What I do, is INJECT tourists dollars into the local economy. That's the way the dept. sees it. They make it as EASY as possible for me to get those clients into Mississippi spending money.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I just THINK this is simply a case of the chickens coming home to roost.

And Crappie123 or anyone else who has "feelings" about me...THIS IS THE INTERNET...Kinda like a TV set...I can't figure out how someone could know ME from a message board.