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Post by jimiowa on Jun 16, 2009 13:49:30 GMT -5
One should not get greedy, and if he does he should not get caught.
Man Accused Of Having Too Many Bullfrogs
Honts Arrested Saturday
POSTED: 1:17 pm CDT June 16, 2009
MUSCASTINE, Iowa -- A Muscatine man is being accused of having too many bullfrogs.
Bradley Honts, 26, has been charged with 12 counts of taking and possessing bullfrogs without a valid fishing license while being under suspension and 15 counts of taking and having possession of bullfrogs over the legal daily bag limit while under suspension.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources suspended Honts' fishing privileges for three years in 2007 after he was convicted of five violations involving sport turtle trapping.
The daily bag limit for bullfrogs in Iowa is 12 and a sport fishing license is required to take or possess bullfrogs.
Honts was arrested Saturday and taken to jail. He faces fines totaling $2,700.
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Jun 16, 2009 21:14:54 GMT -5
"So what are you in jail for - drunk and disorderly, beating your woman, DWI?"
"Nope, I got caught fishing with a suspended licience"
MAYBE IT'S JUST ME, BUT GETTING ARRESTED SEEMS A LITTLE UNCALLED FOR
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Post by jimiowa on Jun 16, 2009 21:32:25 GMT -5
Well I think, that getting caught poaching once, paying a fine, and having your priveledges suspended should teach you a lesson.
Then when you go out and spit in the laws eye, doing it again?
Just what does the court have to do to get the point across that that is not acceptable and won't be tolerated?
Serious slammer time with a cellmate named Ben Dover??
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Jun 16, 2009 22:58:01 GMT -5
Well there's a big difference between poaching trophy big game and eating frogs.
Aside from myself and my family (b/c I'm in no way admitting to or even hinting at) I don't know a single hunter or fisherman that doesn't on a regular basis play musical tags during deer and turkey season so the other friend/fmaily can still hunt, combines individual fish/small game limits to the group, takes a few more over the limit because the action was so hot, blast a chicken hawk and owl, blast a coon or opposum, take a spotlight and 22 out after dark because someone gut shot a deer, not tagging deer because they live right down the road, etc.
People technically break game laws everday --- not defending it. Of course people break traffic laws everyday too because surely no one goes 5 over the speed limit.
I bet last year 95% of hunters and fisherman broke regulation similar to this frog incident. The difference is he got caught...twice
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Post by jmarriott on Jun 17, 2009 11:45:20 GMT -5
A guy who used to live down the street got nabbed by a robo deer.
This was one year after loosing his tags for to many doe not enough tags. He was also called in for night hunting and trespass 4 times in the year he first got nabbed with to many doe. Good riddance to him but he can hunt in ten years now if he gets through probation. I know they set the robo deer to get him the second time. The conservation officer stopped at the house and asked about a beaver problem that my uncle was having ( I talked to him about the problem beavers and called in for my uncle) after 3 conservation truck hauled him off to the pokey. The officer is a nice guy for a CO and hunter friendly. I guess he was caught on tape of prison grounds but that never got a charge against him just got the CO's re involved with him and they had had enough.
Game laws are for the good of the animals we hunt , We should follow them if we believe they are good or bad laws. I hate the one buck a year limit in Indiana now. I also now do a special state park or forest hunt so I can nail two a year legally.
I am just glad I did not see robo deer as they were using a deer in a field that was enough of a trophy that many would consider it a buck of a lifetime if it was real. It had a robo neck and tail. Robo deer was placed 1/2 mile from the house but on a road I did not use much. Funny thing is that road was directly between his house and the house of his father.
He lost a truck and gun and got several game law violation including shooting out of a truck, crossed the road, an illegal rifle round used to harvest deer. (A 243 handi-rifle) shooting after dark, trespass, and hunting without a tag and hunting after legal rifle season. Basically all the charges they can throw against a poacher.
Like I said good riddance. I can resist everything but temptation myself. I believe the robo deer is entrapment with the big rack and huge deer they use and that might be arguable in court as it is a Boone and Crockett sized poacher getter. My uncle lets one family member shoot a deer at the farm and for him on a land owner permit each year. He does have the ability to make one phone call to the CO every five years to get depredation permits anyone can use. Lately we have not taken advantage of the second tag as the deer numbers are getting in check.
Frogs or deer don't matter to me.
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Post by Jack on Jun 17, 2009 12:58:20 GMT -5
"I don't know a single hunter or fisherman that doesn't on a regular basis play musical tags during deer and turkey season so the other friend/fmaily can still hunt, combines individual fish/small game limits to the group, takes a few more over the limit because the action was so hot, blast a chicken hawk and owl, blast a coon or opposum, take a spotlight and 22 out after dark because someone gut shot a deer, not tagging deer because they live right down the road, etc. "
I know lots of people who don't do those things.
I won't say none of them have ever done one of those things on rare occasion, but it would be the exception, not the practice.
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Jun 17, 2009 21:46:15 GMT -5
Well then again, this is Missouri ;D
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