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.
A few differences in Ga than what you've stated about Tx:
1) a good GW has landowner cooperation. GWs in Ga work for the landowners. Both are on the same team with same goals.
2) there is no GW ticket quota in Georgia.
3) Ga GWs focus on public safety and resource damaging violations. Other cited violations are simply for compliance.
4) all GW citations are adjudicated in county courts. State receives NONE of the fine money. It all goes to the county where citation was issued.
