Exactly my sentiment. What is worse is these things are very rarely checked. If they were routinely enforced, and fines handed out, I think you'd see the waterfowl ranks tighten up in all manners of conduct. But with so many rules unchecked and ignored it all becomes a joke. We have a WMA nearby that has been overrun with young inexperienced hunters whose behavior is idiotic and in every case I GUARANTEE they launch their boats with many laws ignored. The prevailing attitude is "I can do the fuck what I want." including breaking into locked blinds and boat races at 4:30 a.m. I'm not making this up. A half dozen hunters ended up in the water due to idiotic risky behavior over the course of the season. Imagine if the rules were enforced and marine police wrote tickets for the small stuff. You think the care-free "to hell with everyone one else" attitude would persist? Nope! You hold everyone to a standard and the riff raff would figure it out or find other pursuits. As it is now, I expect the state to deal with the problem by further access-restricting regulations instead of enforcing the fundamentals and creating an environment of compliance at the very least. I'm so sick of this shit I'm glad to spend more time on private these days than public.
