Pacemaker Fishing Forum

So Tyler and I headed up to Scranton, PA to buy a pickup truck for him.  Success on the new truck.


BUT......While we were up there we planned to just fish for 10-20 minutes at a small lake in the area.  We pulled up to a small parking lot, walked through the woods to the waters edge near a nice old decaying bridge, and got our lines wet.  After 10 minutes of not even a bite, out walks a PA Game Warden.  Asks for my license which I completely forgot about getting.  Asks for Tyler's license, which he didn't have either.  I tried to let him know the whole situation and he couldn't have cared less.  All he could keep saying was "You are still fishing in PA without a license".  He said it was $187 per ticket plus he would confiscate all our rods (about $500 worth).  Panic was setting in.  No sweet talking was going to make this better.  So, we all worked our way back to the trucks and I quietly put the fishing rods back in the truck to get them off his mind.  He was really being a jerk.  He even told me to stand 10 feet away from him and not to reach into my pockets!!  The whole time I was being as nice and agreeable as I could!  In the end, after his Cop Wannabee power trip, he only gave me a ticket  ($187!) and let us keep our rods.  Lesson learned, and I know it could have been a lot worse, but boy did that suck!!.....And I didn't even catch a FISH!!!!!!