Hard to believe that a judge would let his bailiff speak to him like that in court.

I was a police officer for 10 years. Sometimes while doing your job you have the authority to violate a law to perform your job.

Police officers speed to catch a crook, and therefore break the speed limit law. It is an accepted exclusion, called running code.

If you want to catch poachers and people that are fishing illegally, you have to be somewhat invisible on the water.


One of the things I truely enjoyed was sitting in the dark with my nightvision goggles watching drug deals and sending in the bust team. It is a little similar on the lake. If he is (and he probably is) using nightvision equipment to see what people are doing on the lake, he can't have his lights on as they interfere with the equipment and draws attention to himself. You can't see him, but he can see you LONG BEFORE you ever get close to running into him, he will turn his lights on. Kinda as described in the original post.

Wardens have always had one of the most dangerous law enforcement jobs as most people they contact are actively armed and shooting game or in secluded areas.

Give your law enforcement, and wardens are police officers, a break here. They are out there working hard to protect you and your right to enjoy your passions without someone injuring or killing you or a friend by a drunk on the lake who is poaching under sized fish in numbers that exceed the limits.

Law Enforcement have exclusions to certain laws in order to protect and serve, that is just the way it works.