Has anyone else seen this?

**local16** · 08-09-2016, 08:42 AM

Sounds to me like a Conservation officer might have been posing as a client. 9 tickets for taking over the limit of crappie. That tells me the guide caught and kept his limit as well as helped his clients fill their limits.

**MontanaBoy** · 08-09-2016, 09:43 AM

Sad to see on a shelbyville guide website that he is retiring from guiding. This is plain sad.

. I pray he has a way to make a buck.

**chickenguy** · 08-09-2016, 10:50 AM

Originally Posted by local16

Sounds to me like a Conservation officer might have been posing as a client. 9 tickets for taking over the limit of crappie. That tells me the guide caught and kept his limit as well as helped his clients fill their limits.

Pretty sad if this is true. Lets be honest 90% of boats on the lake just fish until they have a 2 or 3 man limit and then quit, did it really warrant 9 tickets? Seems like they wanted to prove a point and send a message, no better way than to go after the most high profile guide in the area. In my mind it's a pretty petty offence that most anglers wouldn't bat an eye at and he is going to lose 25 years of growing a business and a his livelihood.........now if he really did keep 9 fish over their limit, well then he earned it.

**local16** · 08-09-2016, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by chickenguy

Pretty sad if this is true. Lets be honest 90% of boats on the lake just fish until they have a 2 or 3 man limit and then quit, did it really warrant 9 tickets? Seems like they wanted to prove a point and send a message, no better way than to go after the most high profile guide in the area. In my mind it's a pretty petty offence that most anglers wouldn't bat an eye at and he is going to lose 25 years of growing a business and a his livelihood.........now if he really did keep 9 fish over their limit, well then he earned it.

If you agree with the laws or not, they are put in place to protect a resource and need to be followed by everyone.

**chickenguy** · 08-09-2016, 01:39 PM

I understand that, I just hope the 9 tickets weren't for what you mentioned. Which is undoubtedly a grey area amongst most boats on the water. I'm sure someone will learn the details sooner or later.

**fishyfinger** · 08-09-2016, 05:22 PM

This will make all the guides worry. Guarantee there's not a guide that hasn't helped fill a limit.

**wilbur** · 08-09-2016, 05:31 PM

You guys got me confused. Isnt a guide allowed to fish and catch his limit and give it to the clients iffin he has a license?

**Pool13_Jeff** · 08-09-2016, 05:39 PM

Years ago, I fished with him and he took considerable steps to ensure we weren't over the limit. Now, I don't know how many fish we each caught towards the total of all of the limits. I would venture to guess there isn't a guide on that lake or on this board that doesn't catch their limit and keep going until the boat's total is caught.

**clfarms1** · 08-09-2016, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by wilbur

You guys got me confused. Isnt a guide allowed to fish and catch his limit and give it to the clients iffin he has a license?

He can give them his fish,but he can only catch his daily limit not his and his clients also.

**BobB** · 08-09-2016, 06:10 PM

I know for sure that in Missouri, Mark Twain in particular, it is required that each person have a method for keeping track of the fish they caught .... and must stop keeping fish once they have caught their limit.....My brother and I used a guide down there once, and he was VERY particular about tagging each person's fish.........Maybe Illinois is following suite.

It does seem like a conservation officer must have been the client, otherwise I don't know how they could have compiled the evidence for all those citations.

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