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My brother got caught fishing in Idaho without a license, and the Game Warden did impound his pick up truck and all of his fishing gear.
Of course he did lie to the warden, after throwing down his pole, trying to hide it and pretending he was walking the river "collecting rocks". He even made up a huge story about tumbling the rocks with his uncle and how they make small jewelry with them.... Trouble was the warden watched him fish, saw where he had his string "full" of trout (over limit), but let him go on and on telling this grand story, before finally telling him he was full of crap and took all of his stuff and gave him a ride home, while his truck got towed to the impound lot.
He did get the truck back though (thanks to Dad), but never saw the fishing pole again. he ended up getting close to 200 hours of community service since he couldn't pay the fine.
Good rule of thumb to fish by is: If you "just saw" the DEM agent, he didn't "just see" you. Chances are he "saw" you a while ago and knows exactly what's going on.
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