07-05-2022, 01:13 AM
I trolled Strawberry out of the bay on Saturday. Fishing wasn’t great, wasn’t terrible. A fair number of boats but I’ve been there on busier days. The wind was fighting us right from the beginning and we headed home just after noon. On our way back to Highway 40 we encountered a full blown DWR checkpoint with a massive officer presence. All cars were diverted into a pull out and into one of three lanes. We had to wait a few minutes to get checked, and we’re just watching DWR officers walking by with handfuls of slot cutts they are finding in the cars all around us. They had at least one of their K-9 units working the cars as well.
They spent about 30 seconds checking our fish and moved a few cones so we could head out and around the SUV in front of us packed with fishing poles and at least one illegal fish that we could see.
Big thanks to the DWR for their efforts! I don’t know if they were writing tickets or just warnings, but either way, I’m sure many people were educated. I’m sure it’d take 100 more days of running checkpoints to really get the point across, but maybe word will get around. I don’t know if they continued their enforcement actions Sunday and today.
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They spent about 30 seconds checking our fish and moved a few cones so we could head out and around the SUV in front of us packed with fishing poles and at least one illegal fish that we could see.
Big thanks to the DWR for their efforts! I don’t know if they were writing tickets or just warnings, but either way, I’m sure many people were educated. I’m sure it’d take 100 more days of running checkpoints to really get the point across, but maybe word will get around. I don’t know if they continued their enforcement actions Sunday and today.