I've been checked more times than I can remember. PNP, Meeker, Spokane St, Seacrest, Alan Bar, Possesion, etc, etc, etc...

I've gotten one ticket. On the Sky during the late C&R season the gamie asked for my license at Ben Howard. I searched everywhere, but couldn't find it. So she wrote me a $180 ticket for (1) no fishing license and (2) fishing w/o a steelhead license. I backtracked to 2-Bit and found it laying on the the ground right where I parked earlier in the morning. Strangely, I C&R'd a downriver brat and a small wild buck minutes within resuming fishing at the same hole I had just pounded. nk

Anyway I ended fighting the ticket. So I took a day off work and went to poacher court in Monroe. There were three of us, one was a guide fishing w/clients while in the driftboat and the other was a local caught thumping a nate in the South Fork. The judge ended up throwing out the guide's ticket due to ambiguity of the regs (it was the first year for this and even the judge admitted he didn't know it had become illegal). The local got the book thrown at him. And for me, once I proved I had a fishing license, the judge found me guilty of fishing w/o it on my person. Then he fined me zero$. As I was signing papers w/ the bailiff I heard the judge yell for him to make a note (to an unnamed rookie female game warden) "for her not to waste my time again!"

Never have been checked...but i have not gone out as much as you guys have though