Meigs Warden caught baiting

[DoubleRidge]

Bad enough hunting over bait.....but the worst part to me is him doing it with his two sons...sad example for them two boys who clearly know what their daddy does for a living......hats off to the officer who wrote the ticket.

 

[Antler Daddy]

Here's how this one was handled. This officer is now at least a Captain. https://www.chattanoogan.com/2006/8/28/91745/TWRA-Officer-Disciplined.aspx

Well, that surprises me!

I have always found that officer to be friendly and level headed. He is high profile.

Being ethical is doing the right thing when nobody is watching.

However, it can be difficult to justify paying a high nonresident fee to simply hunt a day with family or friends.

Luckily, the TN native license helped me and my siblings. BUT, the same courtesy should be extended to rural nonresident landowners. When our kids turn 17, we will have issues. It is difficult to justify spending 100's of dollars to sit in the freezing woods for an annual morning deer hunt on family land that you own. WAKE UP TWRC

 

[backyardtndeer]

Thats crazy. They should be held to a higher standard not lower! Ridiculous

^^^^This^^^^
They should set an example. The fact he had kids with him is despicable.

 

[Antler Daddy]

How much is the fine for hunting without a license?

 

[Poleaxe]

Illegal harvest of a federal bird should be very serious as in loose his job over

 

[SES]

How much is the fine for hunting without a license?

Probably less than the license.

 

[Monk74]

I mean, is anyone really surprised? Really?

 

[Antler Daddy]

Probably less than the license.

Bingo....it may have a sliding scale though. How do we find out?

 

[Hduke86]

I know a fellow I USED to hunt with get caught deer hunting over bait. He lost his rifle, paid fines, court fees and then lost his license once found guilty at his court date for a year

 

[Pic IN the Casa]

Sounds like he might be a shoe-in for a commission position.
Maybe in charge of the duck blind draws.

 

[Gravey]

Is there a link to an article on this or has it not hit the news? Google only turned up an incident he worked where a bald eagle was shot.

 

[rem270]

Can you post a link to this?

This doesn't surprise me at all though. I'm not anti warden or law enforcement but if you don't think there's double standards for them then folks are living with their head up their own @$$.

 

[Poleaxe]

Of course there isn't a link for this. It's been thrown under the rug and hoped to remain quite which is why other officers are pissed.

 

[Hduke86]

Of course there isn't a link for this. It's been thrown under the rug and hoped to remain quite which is why other officers are pissed.

I will vouch for Poleaxe on this one, it's not a made up thing or hearsay.

 

[megalomaniac]

A decade or so ago one of our state representatives was caught deer hunting over bait. It was so rampant in MS, the legislature just legalized it for deer after that.

Although still illegal for turkeys, it's crazy rampant here (and in TN). Surprisingly, this was the first year in the past several none of our birds in TN or MS had corn in them.

Most people are all about the kill and FB hero poses than the hunt itself. Too many deer hunters now hunting turkeys.

 

[Carlos]

Yall need to understand... there's laws for the common people...
and then there's laws for them, evidently.

 

[Gravey]

I will vouch for Poleaxe on this one, it's not a made up thing or hearsay.

Just to be clear I wasn't insinuating that at all. Was thinking it was out there in the news world but now realize I was mistaken.

 

[Shanman]

With turkeys being "Big Game", is the penalty more than that of small game? Every person I've ever known or who knew guys that got busted over baiting for deer and bear, had their gun/bow confiscated. Did TWRA take his?

 

[Hduke86]

Just to be clear I wasn't insinuating that at all. Was thinking it was out there in the news world but now realize I was mistaken.

You're fine Gravey, I didn't think that at all. It's probably one of those things that you would have to personally go to Meigs county courthouse and ask for public records cause it's differently has been "hush hush" for sure. The thing that rubs me the wrong way is how many folks has this officer "busted" and the outcome was different.

 

[beefydeer]

There's a good ole boy system everywhere. Not just law enforcement. Not surprised.