Where Are The Wardens?

[Chief Grey Bear]

A pirate walks into a bar, he has a hook in place of his right hand, a wooden leg, and a patch over one eye. Sits down at the bar and orders a drink. Guy sitting next to him asks him how he got the wooden leg?

Pirate replies: "Got in a batle on the Spanish Main with a treasure galleon, canon ball took my leg off".

Guy asks him why he had a hook on his hand?

Pirate replies: "Boarded an English sloop, got my hand sliced off in sword fight."

Guy ask him why he has an eye patch?

Pirate replies: "Arrr, I was looking up at the mast and it so happened a seagull flew by over head and pooped in my eye!"

Guy says: "Wow that must have been some really nasty poop to take your eye out!"

Pirate replies: "Arrr, not that, it was my first day with the hook".

Good stuff!!!!!

[Jack Jones]

Okay....that made my morning. Loving the pirate jokes!!!!!!

[Jack Jones]

A pirate walks into a bar, and he's got a ship's wheel sticking out of his pants. The bartender sees him and asks, "Hey, what's that ship's wheel doing there?" The pirate says, "Aaarrrr, it's driving me nuts."

[Haris122]

Had the park ranger in Kirkwood tell me on time when I was fishing at night that the park was closed. I explained to him there were no signs saying such, after about a 10 minute conversation he said I could continue fishing if I want. The only thing that night that was biting was the misqueoties so I was ready to go anyway.

Wouldn't happen to have been at Emmenegger Nature Park would it? I got a warning there for the same reason, now I tend to stay more on the Unger side, as the County Parks department people seem to give you that extra time around nightfall, before they show up to close the gates. Actually even though I had them looking for me a couple times before they close the gates, I never had any problems with them. Always been nice and not in a rush. Even the Kirkwood people weren't too bad, but definitely in more hurry to get out and close the park. That being said, to date in the 4 years of sporadic hunting/fishing I haven't encountered any actual MDC people checking licenses or that you're adhering to regulations.

[Chief Grey Bear]

I have been driving every day for almost 30 years and I am never checked for a license. Unless of course I am doing something wrong. Which happens less and less as I get older.

I am pretty sure there are as many law enforcement officers in just my county as the MDC has in the whole state. Just a thought.

[Smalliebigs]

Your fishing license should cost $100 per year if you want to keep smallmouth. There's some revenue...or less dead smallies. I'll take either one.

Agreed 100% brother......screw the loosers trashing all of our resources. Raise license fees and make fuckers pay dearly to use the resource....I'm on board.....I already blow thousands on fishing, a $100 here or there I don't care if it keeps the pieces of dung away from the river I'm down.

[ollie]

Ok, really? $100 bucks a year? I don't trash the resources and I would tell you to F off if you told me I had to pay that!!

[Greasy B]

For what it's worth I don't bat an eye at an $80.00 Wyoming out of state licence. It was tough medicine the first time but I got use to it.

[Feathers and Fins]

100$ a year. Well I would be giving you the big F as well and I hold a lifetime license! Why is a smallmouth more important than any other fish or game? IT AINT. We get you like smallies so do I and never have kept one. But really a 100.00 license will run off people and despite some opinion ( you know what they say about opinions right ) less people involved in the outdoors is bad. It will give the anti's a much louder voice and take away money from the very resource you wish to protect and preserve.

[ozark trout fisher]

I've paid $70 and $80 on out of state licenses to fish for just a couple weeks. I'm not at all advocating that instate licenses in Missouri should cost that much, but I do think currently they are not charging enough. I'd certainly not have an issue paying something like $30 for a year-long license.

Of course we'll never see the day where those who keep smallmouth have to pay $100 for a license. But I would be very supportive of an extra smallmouth stamp being required for everyone who fished for them, catch and keep or C&R... all of that money going into better enforcement of stream smallie regs. If the MDC can require an extra trout stamp, I don't see why they can't do something similar for smallmouth.