1. Like it or not (and I DON'T LIKE IT AT ALL), there were more hunters wanting changes in the blind drawings than those wanting it to stay like it was. I think it was a mistake, but, others have benefited from the change.
2. TWRA went with the best scientific information available at the time for their CWD response. It was a response started by some other states that had been at it longer. The jury is still out on that one.
3. TWRA officers operated under federal court decisions and state law that has been in effect for decades in going on private lands for enforcement. You may not like or agree with the laws, but the TN legislature specifically granted them that ability decades ago. And, guess what, other law enforcement agencies access private lands outside of curtilage without a warrant every day in the performance of their duties.
4. Illegals using cast nets suck. Unfortunately, for many years, the priority for officers in those counties in the spring and summer has been boating enforcement trying to keep down the carnage on overcrowded lakes. I don't know that I agree with that entirely, but do understand where it is coming from. And, having folks like you bragging that you won't call because you haven't seen an immediate response sure doesn't help.
And, with that, you can have it. Thank goodness for the ignore optio
...and we have a winner!
LOVE the ignore feature!
Love the ignore when a "politician" answer is given. Had to add, that is every single hunter and fisherman I know feels, the TWRA just hits the "ignore" button when it comes to the law abiding everyday hunter and fisherman.
Never really answered anything. Ruger would agree, we talked about this every time we talked. I sure miss him.
1. Crying about money and the TWRA waste 10's of thousands of dollars on what are "junk" duck blinds. Talked to several duck hunters today and they can't believe the how bad the blinds are especially for how much they cost. Also, a commissioner had more input than most anyone else about this duck BS and how on earth can the TWRA be as crooked as they are? A crooked example is Camden, and I don't need an answer, the people who hunt there would like one, but all I know that hunt there says that TWRA connected people got the best blinds in Camden? How can that happen in a blind computer draw?
2. CWD, why did the TWRA ask for sovereign immunity when they were accused of wrongdoing and what the TWRA is accused of appears to be backed up by facts? Sovereign immunity is for those who think they are above the law. Also false positives in many areas but still claiming CWD was there and even though the same positives were found in east Tennessee, but they ignored them. I could go much further with that. Actually at one of the meetings, the TWRA rep, biologist I believe, told us that coyote and buzzard feces could spread CWD but hawk and eagle feces could not. REALLY? He even told us we were crazy for not believing him.
3. Didn't say anything about what they have done in the past, their arguments to try to continue to violate whoever's rights they want to. The argument the TWRA made that is if someone does not want them on their land, then that someone should stop hunting, that is it just stop hunting, they still want to have the right to be what a majority of hunters (funny how the TWRA did not mention fishing) believe is the TWRA thinking they are judge and jury. I don't know about the other law enforcement agencies, but I believe they at least have probable cause or believe they do. The TWRA wants to be able to go ANYWHERE THEY WANT TO, ANYTIME THEY WANT TO, and the OFFICERS make the call as to when and how long they stay. That sounds legit to me.
4. Your answer here would have some validity, but guess what, they are not really enforcing boating safety or laws either. It is a rare day in the past few years that I go to the lake, even if only for a couple hours, that I do not see boating laws broken, safety laws not even paid attention to, etc.
Like I have said I have given up calling the TWRA and I am far from alone. Almost every fishermen and hunter I personally know believe it is a waste of time to call the TWRA anymore. I feel bad for the officers, they are overworked and underpaid and there is not even remotely enough of them. For the TWRA to spend (they should be spending more or law enforcement and safety monitoring on the waters) what they did on duck blinds and battling CWD (other states have tried everything the TWRA has tried and no where has CWD been slowed, cured, or really any new information found out), the TWRA is just like the government wasting money. I am for trying to stop CWD and believe it is not good for anything, but to just try what has been tried over and over and has never had any success of any kind is plain stupid.
I used to be against them, judges who didn't support the TWRA, but now I support those judges.
. maybe we can graduate kindergarten eventually!!! give me a break!!!!!
