Thread: Outrageous!

How bloody outrageous is this, and stupid. Two kids, 6 yr olds get given fishing rods by grandparents. Parents apparently buy them trout licenses to try their hand at this new sport. Out on the boat one has trouble casting. Mum lends a hand with the rod. Bingo! Officer-on-the-job, apparently assisted by a good set of binoculars, toddles over and writes the mum up for fishing without a license. No fish caught of course. Mum summoned to appear in court - really! Gets diversion if she pays $600 to Fish & Game.

So now there's one family that will likely never go fishing again. All that needed to happen was Mum gets a schooling on the rules, is given the opportunity to buy a adult day license, which she offered to do only to be told, gleefully no doubt, "too late", and then maybe instead of being the big bad power-tripping Ranger, the guy helps teach the kids a bit about catching a fish.

Don't F&G spend a fortune trying to get kids into the sport? The optics of this are about as bad as.it gets..stupid!