Facebook idiots get ticketed by the DEC

[Steuben Jerry]

https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/05/24/social-media-wayward-fish-tail-lead-ticket-monroe-county-angler-genesee-river-fishing-dec/640606002/

Ignorance may be no excuse for the law, but he sure was ignorant!

[wooly]

Ha- I love it when I hear guys say the DEC doesn't have time to monitor sites like FB and.... well... this one!

Keep posting those sweet pics and telling us all about all those illegal activities you participate in when outdoors! 

[silent death]

Morons

[Jeremy K]

I saw a guy and his son catch a small mouth at Burt damn over the weekend ,they posed for a quick picture before letting it go , I think I remember reading that even that is illegal.

[silent death]

Never seen anybody get a ticket for taking a pic but if u are fishing for  a specific fish that is out of seaseon that could be your ass depending on the Eco ....now if u were standing there for 5 min with the fish well then u are a idiot lol takes less than a minute in today's world to snap a pic 

Edited May 24, 2018 by silent death

[landtracdeerhunter]

Fine'em $25 and a meal at McDonalds. That'll teach'em. 

[Gencountyzeek]

  On 5/24/2018 at 5:27 PM, Jeremy K said:

I saw a guy and his son catch a small mouth at Burt damn over the weekend ,they posed for a quick picture before letting it go , I think I remember reading that even that is illegal.

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They changed the law this year, you can take pics with out of season catches.

[Robhuntandfish]

have a buddy that teaches hunter ed classes and the ECO's tell him that facebook and other media is a huge help in making arrests.  

[fasteddie]

Like mama used to say , "stupid is as stupid does" . 

[KMurph332]

That not cool those regulations are put into place to protect spawning i am a catch and release fisherman sucks when people do this but it goes on everywere it sucks when someone takes a 6lb bass take the little ones do you know how long it takes a largemouth to get that big a long time i believe its 8 to 10 years

[Culvercreek hunt club]

  On 5/27/2018 at 11:26 PM, KMurph332 said:

That not cool those regulations are put into place to protect spawning i am a catch and release fisherman sucks when people do this but it goes on everywere it sucks when someone takes a 6lb bass take the little ones do you know how long it takes a largemouth to get that big a long time i believe its 8 to 10 years

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i caught a small mouth in Canadarago Lake and it was  20", healthy and football shaped. It was metal lip banded. I called DEC and it was so old they had to go to paper records to get the information. They had no idea any fish from that tagging were still around.  I caught her in the early 90's. She had been tagged and release at the state boat launch 14 years prior with an estimated age of 2 at the time. I caught her about 200 yards north of the that same boat launch. 

[The_Real_TCIII]

  On 5/31/2018 at 1:32 PM, Culvercreek hunt club said:

i caught a small mouth in Canadarago Lake and it was  20", healthy and football shaped. It was metal lip banded. I called DEC and it was so old they had to go to paper records to get the information. They had no idea any fish from that tagging were still around.  I caught her in the early 90's. She had been tagged and release at the state boat launch 14 years prior with an estimated age of 2 at the time. I caught her about 200 yards north of the that same boat launch. 

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That is really cool

[BigVal]

A couple guys showed me their cooler Sunday night and a hog walleye and two bass were in it they're lucky I'm not a snitch! Lol

[Robhuntandfish]

  On 5/31/2018 at 1:32 PM, Culvercreek hunt club said:

i caught a small mouth in Canadarago Lake and it was  20", healthy and football shaped. It was metal lip banded. I called DEC and it was so old they had to go to paper records to get the information. They had no idea any fish from that tagging were still around.  I caught her in the early 90's. She had been tagged and release at the state boat launch 14 years prior with an estimated age of 2 at the time. I caught her about 200 yards north of the that same boat launch. 

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thats very cool .  Used to fish Canadarango some.  Nice smallies and largemouth in there.  Used to see a lot of gold fish across the lake in a real weedy channel , my buddy tried hard to catch one, that was different to see.  I also fished a couple of tourneys there too.  

[dbHunterNY]

we had a big conviction here with a couple hunters who had several deer poached. they only got caught because they bragged about it at a local bar and vaguely on social media.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

  On 5/31/2018 at 5:37 PM, Robhuntandfish said:

thats very cool .  Used to fish Canadarango some.  Nice smallies and largemouth in there.  Used to see a lot of gold fish across the lake in a real weedy channel , my buddy tried hard to catch one, that was different to see.  I also fished a couple of tourneys there too.  

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Nice Tiger Muskies too. 

[Robhuntandfish]

  On 5/31/2018 at 8:13 PM, Culvercreek hunt club said:

Nice Tiger Muskies too. 

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Never got one there.  Have caught some in lake Durant. But we never scored one there