One time at Cherokee Lake, we pulled our boat out of the water and stopped in the parking lot to tie it down to the trailer before leaving. A TWRA officer walked up and identified himself. He asked to see my fishing license and my husband's license, boat insurance and registration. Then he boarded the boat, asked to see the fire extinguisher, life jackets and flotation device. Then he checked both of the live wells and measured the fish. We were legal all the way but, since there were many other boats coming up the ramp, we decided to sit there and watch to see if he did it to anyone else.

That guy was making boaters pull over to the side of the parking lot and stay there until he got to them. He measured fish and threw some live ones back into the lake, took the filets and put them in a bucket, wrote tickets for BUI, no license, no registration, and everything you can imagine. I heard boat owners screaming, cursing, threatening the TWRA officer telling him he should be on the lake instead of in the parking lot. We sat there and saw him issue 30 tickets to some of the angriest people I've ever seen.

We also saw other boats do a U-turn and take off back up the lake.