They are NOT trying to shake you down.... They could NOT write enough tickets to make any money. Boat registration is just like car registration. You have to keep your car running as you do with your boat. You said they said did you clean, drain and dry before coming? Guess they are just doing their job since zebra mussels are now in our lakes...
Laws are only made if they can be enforced with a monetary value.... If they arrested everyone and put them in jail for minor infractions we would have to build a whole lot more jails...
You probably just don't like the fact that you got stopped and checked. Most people don't.. I have been stopped on Fork, Whitney and Athens.. Never a problem and yes they did ask about everything even had my 5 year old son on the boat at the time...
Tell what go do some ride a longs with police..It might change your mind.... I am sure GW's don't do ride a long's.

Nope. I didn�t. I am a very polite humble person face to face. You THINK I�m an [censored]. That�s fine. You�re wrong on both counts. I did get irritated when their boat was bouncing against mine. I cringed and offered them a cold bottled water. I also offered boat fenders and spot lock us both. They didn�t have time for that stuff. They had a quota.


So you�re THEORY is that I provoked them? Are you a teenager?

Yep, i'm 18

You�re a dyslexic 81 yr old. Lol

Bob Sandlin and Cypress Springs are the most heavily patrolled lakes I have ever seen. The same guy checked me twice on the same day on Sandlin a while back. I have been checked five times as many times on those lakes as all others combined.

I fished a tournament on Welsh this year. The warden checked me twice while i was pulled up on the bank waitng for my buddy to get my truck.

I've always had a good relationship with the wardens that work my county and some of the places I hunt, even get along well with Benny, lol. I consider a couple of them as good friends and have ridden with them a time or two.
All of these guys have a passion for the outdoors but their job description is much more encompassing than that.
Living at Fork, we see a LOT of wardens other than our 2 locals. Keep in mind that Fork is in 3 counties so there can be a whole lot of patrolling going on at times. Which, is something that other lakes may not have.


Ftr, Steez has always been helpful and friendly whenever he has been asked for help. He just can't resist jerking the chain if its dangled in front of him. He makes me laugh..

Pilot knoll is Highland Village. If they are driving drunk through Highland Village, they won't make it too many times. Cops here have no other crime to deal with.

i used to live in Lake Dallas (Hickory Creek). That town had 100 liquor stores and about the same number of patrol cars on the road.

Ray Roberts is patrolled. The now retired Officer Darla would pull people over all the time... I appreciate that she took her job seriously, but she tipped fanatical.

She pulled me over one year when I was idling near the flooded campgrounds because "it looked specious". I had my wife and two kids in the boat and we were simply looking at the flood damage while idling at 3 MPH. She checked live wells, cooler and questioned my kids. When she was done she gave my little girl a sticker and said: "This is so you know I'm not mean". My 14 year old son very politely said, "you can just not stop us next time". I quietly grinned. It was a proud dad moment.

No, I've got the same treatment from them there, if you have a kid in the boat with you they seem to be nicer.

I have experienced the same at Aquilla. Hell, they almost confiscated my boat because the system hadn't updated yet and it checked out as having title issues in Louisiana. Came back as stolen. I had recently registered it in Texas without issue so who knows.... Took them about an hour and a half to sort it out and let me go. Still wrote me a ticket because my youngest daughter's life vest was not fully buttoned while the big motor was running.
They were courteous though, I had my 2 girls with me (9 and 7 at the time). That said I support the game wardens and appreciate their work.

Lewisville is crazy.... I see boats out in the lake at night with no lights on what so ever.. And it burns me up when I see all the people leaving huge wakes in no wake areas.. Most of those areas are around boat ramps and I hate leaving my boat fearing it will get washed off the bank before I can get my trailer in to load up...
The biggest culprits of this in my opinion is the people renting water craft.. The people they rent from aren�t explaining anything about water safety to them...

Ralph East used to be out there all the time when he was still a GW, one of the best! Of coarse so was Chris Green! Smith Co. has had some great GW's in the past. Unfortunately, the GW's have other pressing duties.

I thought Fork was only in Wood and Rains County. What's the third?