Possible world record lake trout seized?

[outdoors247]

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I am amazed at this guy's cooperation and honesty, according to reports. I think the Ontario MNR should make an example of this. Show the public that you appreciate cooperation. They should have penalized the guy at the lowest level possible. After all, his offense was basically as petty as it can get, and he has been nothing but cooperative and contrite.

It pretty hard not to be cooperative when you are tagged and they have a mountain of evidence. He was not going to talk his way out of this one so he did the right thing and cooperated.

So, you think everyone that cooperates should be given a free pass or minimal penalties? That set's a pretty bad precedent for fish and game violators. He broke the law and he has to pay the price, plain and simple if you ask me.

[Deet]

It pretty hard not to be cooperative when you are tagged and they have a mountain of evidence. He was not going to talk his way out of this one so he did the right thing and cooperated.

So, you think everyone that cooperates should be given a free pass or minimal penalties? That set's a pretty bad precedent for fish and game violators. He broke the law and he has to pay the price, plain and simple if you ask me.

He could have very easily been uncooperative. I never said anyone should get a free pass, just that he shouldn't be raked over the coals. And from the latest release that I read, it sounds like a pretty fair fine. I think he paid the fine, and then went back up fishing and caught another wall-hanger.

[DLD24]

So you're saying that you've never seen someone that obviously did the crime get off?? Now a days you can get off with dam near anything it seems...Did you read the article about the Mille Lacs guy with 50 walleyes in his freezer get off..Hell OJ ran from the cops on live TV haha...And as far as getting the replica made hell ya I would too.. I would have released it if possible and gotten a replica,but either way I'd get one...

[Wanderer]

The only illegal thing he did was keep 1 fish over the limit. Is $400 a fair fine for that? I guess Ontario thinks so. The catching of it wasn't a crime.

Heck he kept his fishing privileges and went back and killed another trophy legally.

He learned a $400 lesson, promoted his resort and got the word out about LLC. Quite an eventful winter for a normally quite winter life.