A friend told the story of a guy pulling out of Garibaldi Friday, with an unclipped coho (native retention started Saturday), with his poles rigged with barbed hooks.
The story goes, that the paper really flew, to the tune of a few hundred (and when I saw this a few weeks back, they kept all the fish and crabs and the entire catch).
Is it really that hard to play by the rules? Sure, you kind of need a lawyer to keep up with the ocean and Columbia, but at a regular water body like Alton-Baker, the regs don't change, they're right there in black and white.
Just because I don't agree with some of the regs, it doesn't mean I don't follow them.
Props for calling it in.