I do my best not to be an outlaw. I am not worried about anything in my vehicle or boat. Still I would never give my permission for a game warden to search either. Like it or not there are some bad ones out there.
I think I've been summonsed once in about 60 years of steady huntin' and fishin'. That was for frog gigging at night on the Withlacoochee River in my canoe without the little red and green lights. I did nothing to antagonize the Officer, but he'd been called by someone and must have felt he had to do something.
I was using two Q-beams and was probably lit up better than an airplane. The river is so small and rocky here there's no problem with boat traffic. I took it to the Judge and he agreed it was silly and asked if I thought a $5.00 bond forfeiture would be about right...Geo
