I called in an accidental otter catch...…...I told them I didn't have a freezer so it rode around in my truck for almost a week until they followed up. We did the paperwork, and as he was leaving-he saw a pile of deer hides in front of my garage door (I use to buy deer hides and now Im the area dumping grounds for them now that they are almost worthless.). He gets in his truck and immediately gets back out and asks me if they are all legal. I laughed held my arms up in an "I don't know" gesture and said "I couldn't tell you". He turned around and left......Dude, I reported a violation, we did what we had to do, OK now. It left a thorn in my shirt, what did he want me to say other than what I told him?

Been hunting in the Black Hills for over 30 years never been stopped by a game warden local they all know me but the can see my license any day they need to.

Seems a real shame it took them a week to come get the carcass otter. Probably beyond salvaging at that point. And then they wonder why people “sss”.

Only been checked a couple times hunting and fishing, always pretty pleasant. Had a great uncle that fished out of our camp as a kid got busted all the time for having too many brook trout, couldn't adjust to modern day creek limits. Lost his license twice in his 70s. I loved fishing with him when I was a kid because he gave me his extra fish and I always came back to camp with a full limit. Last time he got nabbed he had taken to slipping overage fish down his hip boots. Wardens came driving around the corner as he was emptying out his boots on the tailgate.

So your Great Uncle was a poacher is what you're saying.