Originally Posted by
hookdfisherman
You're right, I have no idea how true the story is and I never even hinted you were lying. It may be true but, it may not be true. Most of the people reading this thread do not know the truth of this matter, and anyone who does will deny any wrongdoing; if in fact that wrongdoing occurred.
What you're telling is just a story, your story. You say a DFG officer approached these guys. You also told us that you explained to him what these guys were up to, that is, breaking the law by fishing a trout. Sure, that's against the law, no question. Did the violators get a ticket? Did they get arrested? Were their fish confiscated as evidence? It seems from your story, nothing happened to them, even after you explained to the DFG that laws were broken.
The true test of their criminal act(s) would be a finding of guilty by a court of law. That never happened from what I read in your current rant. They didn't even get a ticket for neglecting to carry their license on their person while fishing. A government official who received your account of infractions obviously couldn't prove anything either.
There's a saying from the movie "Training Day": "It's not what you know, it's what you can prove". You, in all your wisdom and observations, can prove nothing. All you have is a story.
I do not chuck trout either. If you are accusing people of breaking laws on a public forum, slandering a reputation, putting up stories that you cannot prove... you may have a lawsuit coming your way. There is a thing called the "Cloud". This "Cloud" stores every single piece of data that ever gets posted or sent over the net. You can edit or delete text and ideas (a.k.a. rants and false accusations) but, they're still floating around in the "Cloud". Even Federal Tax Officials who claim to have deleted emails, information, or directives to target special interest groups have been put back on the hot seat because: "Oops, we just so happened to find all that deleted information in a Cloud".
So just a bit of advice; in your best interest, you might want to keep what you think you know to yourself, until it becomes what you can prove... then you can freely scream it from the mountain tops without any repercussions.
BTW (by the way), You keep assuming and guessing about people. You accuse them of breaking the law, being trout chuckers, etc.; calling people hoodlums and criminals without any proof whatsoever, that's what is known as slander. You might want to be a little more careful with that.
slan•der
noun LAW
1.
the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation.
"he is suing the TV network for slander"
verb
1.
make false and damaging statements about (someone).
"they were accused of slandering the head of state"
synonyms: defame (someone's character), blacken someone's name, tell lies about, speak ill/evil of, sully someone's reputation, libel, smear, cast aspersions on, spread scandal about, besmirch, tarnish, taint;
Another thing, I am old too, but I can still ski Double Black Diamonds in Mammoth.
Golf is a little too slow for me LOL!