Fished east side of I-5 caught tons of pinks no silvers(released all the pinks)heard of a couple silvers being caught just down river a bit and a couple caught up river about 2 miles. What I did see was a group fishing that did not know what kind of fish it was that we all are catching and after accepting several fish from one fishermen he caught one, I saw he did not punch his card so I mentioned to him not to forget(thinking in the excitement he forgot and I did not want to see him get a ticket) turns out he had no punch card or license for all that mattered not a single member of the family had one. I just shook my head and looked beside me at 2 gentlemen fishing that held up a fish snagged in the butt saying look at how I got this one... as he unhooked it and cut the gills and threw it in the dirt and snagged a few more....now with 8 between the 2 they proudly had there picture taken with the snagged fish.(by the way I politely let them know that they are not legal to keep if snagged). This just made them face the other way as they unhooked the snagged fish as though I didn't see it drug in front of me by the tail. I just shook my head, they left with 8 and proud to be fishermen. As they left I kinda watched a guy cut up his limit as he whacked the heads off then the tails he put them in his laundry detergent bucket and sat down and pulled out his wallet, got his pen, got his punch card and proceded to mark the 4 fish he caught, rather then marking them as they are caught as you are suppose to. I just shook my head and looked to the left of me as a guy that just got there brought one in by the tail, stomped on the head 2-3 times and put it on the stringer. DOES ANYONE FOLLOW THE RULES!

FISHINROB

10/11/2009 9:45:00 PM

I FEEL YOUR PAIN ONLY TO WELL!!!SEEMS LIKE THERE IS NO JUSTICE AT TIMES FOR PEOPLE LIKE THAT ,I FISH THE GREEN AND PU AND SEEN WIVES TAKE FISH TO THE CAR THAT WERE SNAGGED AND DO THIS OVER AND OVER .PEOPLE ARE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE MINIMAL WARDENS AND OFFICERS PRESENTS .IVE TRIED TO EXPLAIN TO PEOPLE BUT ALLS I GET IS I SPEAK NO ENGLISH .TRYING TIMES FOR SURE.

curado

10/11/2009 10:01:00 PM

call this warden she is cool jennifer maurstad 425-681-9607 she works that area

Idstud

10/12/2009 5:12:00 AM

I watched that same thing happen up the snohomish by the 522 bridge. I was done fishing and leaving when I watched some people snagging fish. I call it poaching so when I got to my car I pulled out my regs and called the 1 800 number and truned them in. I also took pics of them with my cell phone made it look like I was making a call so the knew what they looked like. Every year the pinks run heavy theres alot more people out there than fisherman. Fish and game cant be every where thats why theres a 1800 report there butt number. There are alot of people that fish that dont read the regs or really understand them. Ive seen them correct people on this web site and be wrong. Tight lines happy fishing

Dave

10/12/2009 12:12:00 PM

"DOES ANYONE FOLLOW THE RULES?" Only the honest ethical ones. Sucks to witness that kind of stuff and for me, it usually ruins my trip.

richardvw

10/12/2009 12:34:00 PM

Jennifer is actually my cousin curado.

curado

10/12/2009 3:00:00 PM

really . i have talked to he a couple of times

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