Silverado thanks for explaining this better. I very much like the approach you took by talking to the guy and then advising F&W to watch for the poaching in a particular area rather then turning the guy over directly.
As much as I despise poachers I find it best if you do it the way you did. Besides they may well catch other guys that are also poaching/fishing illegally.
Abuse of the fish and game populations is a serious crime and it's rampant. What galls the hell out of me is the
white trash that take advantage of friendships with treaty Indians in places like Slave Lake.
Give the guy a 40oz bottle or 24 beer in exchange for riding into town with a cow moose the Indian "shot", that type of thing.
I knew a guy that did it and he bragged about the fact he did, but there was no way to prove it, stop it or anything. He had grown up with lots of native buddies and had many contacts to carry out that.
I have seen where native hunters shot a bull, cow and calf moose all together, left 'em overnight without even bothering to gut them and then the next day finally gut 'em. In this one case I know of we called the F&W officer and he came out. We went to the kill site with him that next morning and the Indians had arrived and were in the process of gutting those moose.
I have never seen such brutal, careless work in my life (besides the fact the carcasses had laid there all night). There was ####, dirt and hair all through those animals. To this day I am convinced they simply shot those moose to barter for whiskey. I cannot believe anyone would handle meat they intended to eat, so carelessly.
I also know a guy who told me that a native guy he knew had told him he'd shoot him anything, moose, elk whatever and as many as he wanted. It's how the native made his whiskey money...
Bah!! The whole topic makes me sick!!
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