Exactly....makes me mad FOR him...

Once.For an untagged trap in the back of my car around 1980-81.I was in my Chevy chevette in a parking lot at a state game area getting ready to check some beaver traps when the game warden pulls up.After some small talk he looks thru the hatchback and sees a trap.He asks to see it so I get it and he says no tag.I says what difference does that make its in my vehicle,its not set.He says,it doesnt matter.$25 ticket.Later that same winter the same warden pulled a pole set of mine and took the trap (a no.14 jump ).He left a note in a baggie that he couldn't make out the name on the tag so he pulled it,if I wanted it back I could find it at the local state police post.Go to the post and nobody knew what I was talking about,they looked at me like I was crazy until I showed them the note.Was told to come back in a couple of days when a trooper that wasn't there that day might know something about it.Long story short I got the trap back.Why the warden took the trap in the first place,then took it to a state police post,was never explained.

Nope

Last year was the first year I have actually ran into an officer in the field while trapping. I had a couple dead fisher in my truck and he didn’t even inquire about them or a trapping license. He was too busy asking me questions about locals fishing the nearby lake. I learned later from someone else that he just thought I was a farmer. Lol

So, no I haven’t. There’s basically zero enforcement on trapping where I am. I don’t know if that is good or bad, haha.

I didnt realize there were so many trouble makers on this site..Ha

Almost. Checking traps during deer season on my 4 wheeler on our farm. I'd run right straight back from the house then run my line to the north. i would end up by the main road, then run the road back past our house and run the south part of my line. Well running up the main the GW is driving the other way, I wave at him and keep going. I can see him turn around so I pull in where my south line starts and wait for him. Well my slug gun is on the handle bars and I have my pistol on my belt. They pull in, 2 of them get out and we just BS a little. Then the older one asks me if my shotgun is empty. Well the guns right there and I'm not about to lie so tell him no it''s loaded. The younger one starts in, I knew it, I knew it. I'll write him up. The older one tells him no. Then he tells me just unload it next time your driving on the highway. He then tells the younger one that the one thing they don't teach you it school is that you don't want to (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) off the property owners. There used to be some real good ones out there but I have been told a lot of the NEW one are real sticklers for the hard written rules.

While in the Air Force in 1983, I was trapping a beaver flowage on Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Michigan. Had a 330 set under the ice out away from the lodge near the feed bed. The trap was 23' feet from the lodge but was supposed to be a minimum of 25' from the lodge. I should not have estimated the distance as the game warden used a tape measure. My fault. Paid the fine of $30.00 total and learned a lesson.


Chris

Closest I have come to a hunting or trapping violation is parking ticket. Been checked by wardens dozens of times in my life. Was checked just this last fall while gun deer hunting. All my interactions with wardens are mostly positive.

So how did I get parking ticket.
Was open day of duck season back in 1970 something?? I and a buddy went out on river like 1am in morning to get a spot. . Launched the boat at same land had used many times over the years. Parked in a spot at landing had used for many years. So around 8am in morning couple buddies came out to joint our group. Shooting didn't start until noon. Buddy say you know your Parked right in front of a no parking sign?? Im like what ?? wonder when they put that there? Well im not going back and move my truck and trailer. Most parking fines are $5 I will just pay dang Fine.
That wasn't the smartest move. Dang landing is federal refuge landing. So their brand new no parking sign that was like 8 ft up in air. Cost me $75 dollars in stead of the $5 I figured it would be. I could have argued the ticket if I wanted to drive to Madison argue with Magistrate. Suck it up and mail the check. Funny part is I wasn't the only one got bite. They made couple grand that opening weekend. Made enough money to pay someone to lower the signs to eye level.

Mac

Dang! I'm on Tman with a bunch of outlaws.

Not a violation but I was violated. On about the 6th or so stop on my waterline, I was wiped out. Someone stole my partners and my traps, all of them. At about the 10th stop, I get stopped and I thought good, I will make a report.
All the jackwad wanted to know was if I had any traps on the downstream side of the bridge (which was his property and I knew that). I did have permission upstream and that where my traps were. I didnt set on his ground but he was adamant in his mind that I did., all along Im trying to tell him I just had a small line stolen a couple miles away.
He was so intent on busting me for something that he never took any stolen trap information from me. He just didnt want to hear it- to this day I believe he may have took them.

Not yet. Some things happen beyond our control, such as a beaver dams getting torn out without my knowledge, causing 330's to be high and dry. I had that happen a few times and luckily there wasn't a game warden there to see it.

Unfortunately, there are GWs out there that have the common sense of a liberal.

They're not all like Clay and I (b4 we retired)...lol

Oh I just rem,ebered I got a 200.00 fine for parking "in front of a PGC gate". It was summer, I was coming home from work and had to take a leak bad. I pull into their gate, my passenger side headlight was lined up with the pole that had the lock. I guess I could have parked another 2 feet over but it was an abrupt stop if you know what I mean.
He was getting me one way or another, he said people were stealing firewood there and I happened to have 4 chainsaws in the back of my truck. I told him I could get all the easy firewood I wanted at work and didnt have to carry it forever Like whoever was stealing it did. All that over taking a whiz lol.
To this day I realize how lucky he was to have pinched me I was only there for like 3-5 minutes.

And I'm lilly white, because I have never been caught. If you are not breaking a law in the U.S., you probably are not doing anything.

Yeah, but we're good outlaws.

I had trapped some beaver out for a landowner on his land. The beaver had two dams that were flooding his field. After I removed the beaver a friend of mine who worked as a blaster for a quarry company was blowing out the dams. I was with him to show him where the dams were. We had called the county's sheriff's department to let them know we would be blowing these dams on the property. After we blew the first dam a CO came flying down the road mad as heck asking us what we thought we were doing? We explained the situation and told him the landowner wanted the dams removed so his fields would dry out. We told him we had contacted the sheriff's department and informed them on what we would be doing. He said that wasn't good enough, he should have been informed.

I wanted to tell him if he had called the sheriff's office, they would have told him. But, I didn't want to push my luck, as he told us he could write us a ticket. But, in the future if a similar situation occurred, he said he would.

No but the funny thing is the old game warden that use to chase me around ended up being my co worker, we are great friends now, lol. He still claims he wasn't trying to catch me, we have a good discussion about it every year around the dinner table when we are working out of town together, lol. Co worker's enjoy our back and forth about the old days when we played game warden vs outlaw lol.

no trapping violations but my brother and son have gotten hunting violations so my brother and i where deer hunting and when we came out the wardens where at the truck so at the time you needed a special sticker attached to your license because it was a controlled hunters numbers so after they confirmed that my brother in fact had been drawed they issued a ticket for poaching deer even though it was just he had forgot to affix a sticker to his license funny thing was we had talked about it that morning before we left because we knew someone else who got that fine the year before and my son we where hunting turkeys and he shot a nice tom and we didnt have a knife to notch the tag so we waked to the car with the turkey and was in the process of notching the tag as the warden drove up

B4 my GW years, I could make most on here look very lily white. To this day, residents in the county I grew up in still cant believe DNR hired me...lol.

But, once the decision was made to be a GW, I repented and will never go back...even though I'm now retired.