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<blockquote data-quote="SDMF" data-source="post: 483718" data-attributes="member: 412">I started fishing Devils avidly in 2002.&nbsp; I'm on that body of water/system from Pelican to Stump 25-40 days/summer.&nbsp; Drive up from Fargo Fridays or Saturdays and home again Sundays unless it's a long/Hoiday weekend or I've taken time off which I often do.In all that time on the water and/or back and forth often with a boat in tow, I've been checked by an honest-to-goodness ND Game Warden exactly 1x.&nbsp; IIRC there were 2 wardens were in their boat.&nbsp; We were checked for licenses, limits, life-jackets, and a fire extinguisher.&nbsp; All good, pleasant experience, everything in order and we were back to fishing reasonably quickly.&nbsp; I'm just wondering how on earth in 500+ days, the vast majority being weekends, between, actually fishing, towing a boat, and cleaning fish at one of the public cleaning stations, I've only ever had contact w/game wardens 1x.&nbsp; I've been checked more often than that either putting in or retrieving my boat on the Sheyene river just N of Valley City and I bet I've used that ramp less than a dozen times and not at all for a couple of decades...I've been &quot;Creel Surveyed&quot; probably a dozen times or so from Grahams all the way down to the State Park @ Stump.I'd sure be OK with a LOT more ND G&amp;F visibility/activity in the Devils Lake basin.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SDMF, post: 483718, member: 412"] I started fishing Devils avidly in 2002. I'm on that body of water/system from Pelican to Stump 25-40 days/summer. Drive up from Fargo Fridays or Saturdays and home again Sundays unless it's a long/Hoiday weekend or I've taken time off which I often do. In all that time on the water and/or back and forth often with a boat in tow, I've been checked by an honest-to-goodness ND Game Warden exactly 1x. IIRC there were 2 wardens were in their boat. We were checked for licenses, limits, life-jackets, and a fire extinguisher. All good, pleasant experience, everything in order and we were back to fishing reasonably quickly. I'm just wondering how on earth in 500+ days, the vast majority being weekends, between, actually fishing, towing a boat, and cleaning fish at one of the public cleaning stations, I've only ever had contact w/game wardens 1x. I've been checked more often than that either putting in or retrieving my boat on the Sheyene river just N of Valley City and I bet I've used that ramp less than a dozen times and not at all for a couple of decades... I've been "Creel Surveyed" probably a dozen times or so from Grahams all the way down to the State Park @ Stump. I'd sure be OK with a LOT more ND G&F visibility/activity in the Devils Lake basin. [/QUOTE]

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