Hassled by a DEM CO

[Nebe]

that yahoo should be all over that place and the other scup havens durring the day busting litter bugs.

[Backbeach Jake]

Sounds like "Barney" failed his detective exam again and was taking it out on you. I hate arrogant ,stupid authority figures.

[Sweetwater]

Sounds like given where you were and the water as you described, you should've been asking him what HE was doing. I have a lot of respect for law enforcement, but I've run across more than a few that have some type of "authority complex."

Oh well.

[BigFish]

BBJ is probably on the right track.....he probably got his bullet wet!

[Springtides]

too bad most enforcement are good guys.
Piemma, didn't he know you have the "key to the town of narragansett?" Too funny! That's almost as good as the "bottles breaking on the rocks" episode (korkers).

[Swimmer]

Maybe he just transferred from Montana and they don't fish at night, on a sandbar, in the middle of a black hole. Actually I'll bet he's a rookie and he thought YOU WERE DROWNING AND HE GOT SO TIGHT WITH YOU BECAUSE HE EMBARRASSED THE S#$T OUT OF HIMSELF, WHEN HE REALIZED WHAT WAS REALLY GOING ON.

[Nebe]

Piemma, remember hte last time someone harrased you on that rock?

[RIROCKHOUND]

When he asked what you were doing; straight face you should've answered "Skiing"

I've done X ammounts of nights there the last 4-5 years and NEVER seen DEM in there in the middle of the night; usually the roar through the lot with their DEM bronco and leave;
As far as being hassled by others (kids) never had a problem, I leave them alone and they leave me alone...

Now the family of nomads/gypsys living in the wood paneled mini-van last year at the end of the path for a few nights; that was creepy...

[Rob Rockcrawler]

I finished a conservation law enforcement training academy in April. I can understand why the DEM guy might have been acting the way he was. Out of my class of 35 there were only 3 fisherman in the group, and they are more the worm and bobber types, and only 2 hunted, and one only "hunted" shoopting preserves with his dad, he was a harvard grad afterall. I made damn sure he understood that he has never hunted before. In all the role playing scenarios we did it was blatantly obvious that they dont understand sportsmen. One instance was an "officer" approaching a duck hunter with his plastic gun trained on the perp, oh i mean legal duck hunter. Some of the people that took the MA EPO civil service exam were blatantly anto hunting. Wanting to end all hunting because they are memebrs of PETA or atleast very sympathetic to their cause . Its going to take these rookies a while to understand the sportsmen as not being evil bastards but people who make their jobs have meaning. Just like any law enforcemnt job, if you look at everyone as being a criminal and treat people like crap you will be workin towards an early career change. I wanted to work in RI with the DEM but dont have the right kind of educational background. Which is prolly good for you guys that want to keep your spots, cuz that is one of the best perks of the job, finding the good spots, unfortunatly i dont think they get a chance to fish and hunt enough. Just imagine night vision goggles, korkers, and an aquaskins top all paid for by the state because they are essential tools of the job. i got breifly checked by an EPO at the canal. He looked at me and my equipment and figured i wasnt you average short taker, we had a breif chat and he watched BassBAbe fight a fish and left before it even got landed. A nice guy who fished and understands fisherman, the kind of guy you want on the job.