Anybody that would suggest on a public forum that trappers would intentionally trap illegally in their respective states is a poster child for how the antis wish to portray us. Low down poaching scum.

Not smart.

When your state association refuses to back you they can kiss my one brown eye. And yes the mta.

Sure TX game wardens have the time and resources to enforce the law. They are paid to do so.

Between a trapper having to sneak around and violate the law and pay repeated fines (that may lead to privilege suspension...what the heck would be the purpose to keep at it?

Trust me .....you can be stopped from violating the law. People are stopped everyday.

The human vs human game is one I enjoyed playing as a GW.

I really liked dealing with the ones that thought they were smarter than me.

…. If you never met one smarter …. Come out of retirement and ride on over lol

…. If you never met one smarter …. Come out of retirement and ride on over lol

I would imagine that rural Georgia is similar to rural Texas. GWs never catch the good ones around here without landowner help. We had a very good GW here for 30 years that retired and then became Sheriff. Completely respected within the community and died in office after serving 4 or 5 terms as Sheriff. He always worked alone except when he got in a storm, he'd call the State troopers or deputies. He treated everyone with respect, but was also a ball buster if you needed it. He went to church with us and his kids went to the same schools. Since he's been gone, we've had several of them come and go. Young, not from around these parts, and seem to have a chip on their shoulders; not polite. They also seem to run in pairs and start with accusations rather than being friendly.

With that said, because they can't get help from the landowners to gain access for launching boats in the river or just don't get combos to gates, they are forced to give the old lady without a fishing license a ticket or write some other chickencrap ticket to someone. They have to do this because their bosses are bringing the heat on how many tickets they write a month. The new ones don't care about the resource or the community; all they care about is writing tickets because the state wants revenue. Writing chickencrap tickets to locals brings bad blood and further complicates the relationship.