I read a few years ago that Kincaid was supposed to be one of the most fertile lakes in KY and I'm glad to hear the bass fishery has improved since I was a little shaver. Since I was a little kid I always thought it would be cool to be a Conservation Officer, that is what most of you fellas official title is right? Or is that just the guys that go to schools and work the camps and what not? Oh, before the following tyrade let me say that every single employee of KDFWR I have ever spoken with or encountered, period, has treated me and my family members with the utmost respect, especially considering the stress of negotiating a situation where everyone usually has a loaded firearm.
Anyway I want to know why his boat had a 75 and everyone else using the lake MUST have a 9.9 (rhetorical question)? Setting one hell of an example for the little ones there aren't we? Guys in uniforms with shiny badges can seemingly disobey the law while "feeding there families" but no one else had better even think about it. I bet if you pulled up next to a judge or God forbid the Governor on a lake and they had a beer in their hand, no life jackets, and two-hundred pounds of lead shot you and every other officer "would use their discretion" not to ticket them. And personally I think all the authority you guys get; free range to trespass, confiscate (Or does the fact that who ever owned that property before you took it, at gunpoint mind you, or if you don't like to think of it that way, behind the implied potential use of deadly force, worked hard just to be able to purchase, maintain and, properly license that equipment mean nothing? I say if you as a man, take something from me without permission, you stole it ), no need for warrants or probable cause, etc., etc., etc, is crapolla. If the the department needs more money to enable its officers to constitutionally enforce laws imposed by the legislature, at that point I think the General Fund should contribute some money for clerks to file for warrants, take calls, and so on. My main beef I suppose is being able to enter without a warrant, really rubs me the wrong way. Like so many other State related ethical issues, we could do better if we tried.
In summation, I hate, let me repeat, hate, people who think it is their right to abuse their power, whether it is the fat kid who runs the play ground taking some weak nerds lunch money, or a "bad apple" their position of authority should not preclude them from observing the same behavioral standards that any other citizen is held to 24/7 but, all that whining and blathering aside we certainly need laws in place to keep those among us who lack the common sense to recognize the need for consideration of and cooperation with others to maintain our magnificent game populations and, I for one am glad that good hearted guys like Ryan are out there, or soon to be out there I should say, doing whats right for all the citizens of the Commonwealth. Thank you sir for not being afraid to do what is right. I'm almost done with my Poli Sci degree and I hate waiting tables, KDFWR still taking applications?