Stop an check?
Unless the LEO (fish cop/game warden/whatever) has a reasonable suspicion that you have committed a crime (including a violation of a fishing/hunting regulation) he may not stop and check anything unless you allow it to be done. They cannot lawfully stop you just to make sure you have a fishing license ant more than they can stop you just to see if you have a DL.
In the two previous encounters I've mentioned, I would reasonably expect that they did, in fact, have a reason to stop and check me.
Coming from the shooting range, on WMA property, the Fish/Game officer believed that I was open carrying illegally and made the stop. We discussed it, pulled up the appropriate statute on his computer and he said that although he knew about the "fishing, camping, hunting" portion, he had never actually encountered anyone on the "shooting" part of it and didn't realize it was "two paragraphs" further down the page! OK, he learns something and I'm on my way down the road, still OC.
On the fishing "stop", it was a panicky citizen who called in about some guy fishing with a gun on the pier.
He merely approached me, saw that I was doing and realized what was going on. I think he actually talked with me because the "citizen" was watching and he had to appear to "do something". This type of "stop" has happened at least two times that I'm aware of. Panicky citizen calls 911 to report a guy with a gun. For some reason, the dispatcher never seems to ask "What is the guy with the gun doing?" Is he waving the gun around? Is he pointing it at anybody?
Uh, no, he's fishing and drinking a Diet Coke.
They just send a car out and the citizen hides behind a tree to watch what happens.
Oh well, not a real problem in the overall scheme of things.
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