Wardens: Operation Paddlefish | FD Real Show

Wardens - Season 3, Episode 3: Operation Paddlefish | Outdoor Documentary
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This week, wardens encounter a crowd after busting a couple of antler poachers, crack down on anglers who are cheating the system during paddlefish season, and one warden deals with a rowdy group of partying campers.
When your job is protecting our most precious natural resources in some of the nation’s most remote areas, there is rarely a dull moment. Wardens chronicles the lives of Conservation Officers in America. The show features the men and women who protect public lands, from ride-alongs on interstate game checks, to anti-poaching sting operations; from remote snowmobile trails in grizzly bear country, to unforgiving white-water rapids. While the focus of Wardens is enforcement of regulations, the show takes special precautions to ensure the general public understand those who would violate the rules are the minority and the vast majority of encounters with our Wardens are law-abiding citizens.
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[@irishmetalman]

Color zip ties makes it so easy to mark your fish. Only take as many ties as your limit allows. Everyone has a different color so no confusion.

[@Mtoutdoorsman]

Did that when salmon fishing on the snake river in Idaho, helps a lot when you have a lot of people on a boat and definitely helps you remember your limit 👍

[@Berm_Blaster]

That's what alligator hunters do in LA. They are each given a specific colored tag.

[@randallsmerna384]

But in the end does it really matter who got what if they are under the total group limit?

[@trollhunter7764]

​@@randallsmerna384there is no such thing as a total group. When you have caught your limit you must stop fishing regardless of how many fish your group has caught

[@derickbelhumeur116]

​@trollhunter7764 I don't believe you have to stop fishing you just can't keep anymore than your limit. It called catch and release

[@topher208regulator]

The only cool game warden in the world letting them party.

[@thegunguy4065]

The one thing I just can't wrap my head around is the shed-hunting regulations covered in these episodes

[@bpdp379]

What don’t you get? Rules are pretty simple.

[@thegunguy4065]

@@bpdp379 I understand the rules I just don't understand why they exist.

[@Berm_Blaster]

​@@bpdp379I think he means he doesn't understand why there are those regulations. They don't really explain the purpose of there being a season for it, why they are tagged etc.

[@meghan7547]

@@thegunguy4065 My understanding, those are rules in management areas that are on the "winter range" of the animals, those are closed to everyone so the animals can feed and winter without additional stress. About the animals, not so much the antlers, giving the animals a time of peace to recoup after the Winter.

[@thegunguy4065]

@@meghan7547 that makes sense. The show came off to me like it was a state-wide rule/law.

[@michaellane5679]

Love this program! Thank you wardens!

[@Berm_Blaster]

First guy says "oh its in my other pants" Second guy says "oh its in my other truck" 🤦 goofballs

[@bigmike9558]

I love the party people they are out enjoying life and doing it safe I love how cool he was with them

[@highjinx6519]

A hell of a lot cooler than the game Wardens in TX. You can’t drink in our state parks and they’ll sneak up on you even if you’re sitting there quietly around a campfire. It’s BS.

[@juarezderrick9647]

​@@highjinx6519 that depends on the state park

[@highjinx6519]

@@juarezderrick9647 possibly. I just know it’s that way at Possum Kingdom state park. Learned the hard way lol. I know after it happened I remember seeing signs there and at some others that say “no public display and consumption of alcohol”. Just pissed me off because we were being quiet at our campsite not causing any trouble and he literally snuck up on us out of the woods.

[@juarezderrick9647]

@@highjinx6519 I don't know where that is I'm down here around Houston and Galveston and most state parks you can drink but you cannot have glass containers

[@dont.ripfuller6587]

If you've got 3 people with licenses in the same group, why can't you just split up the ownerships of the limits?

[@edvin_hook]

I cant believe that nobuddy has commented on this its a solid episode.

[@Mtoutdoorsman]

I love the party Bryan came across 😂, Bryan checked my license one time and he’s a great dude

[@edvin_hook]

@@Mtoutdoorsman oh, so you actully meet him nice.

[@rkh7169]

Dude these Game Wardens are so nice. I live in NC. I was heading out for a deer hunt on the Roanoke River for a week long trip. I ran into a game warden about 3 miles from the boat ramp at around 4:45 in the afternoon. Asked if he needed help. I towed him back to the landing after we tried to get him back up and running. We reached the landing at around 5:30 where he then wrote me a ticket for my running light being out. Which wouldn’t have mattered if I didn’t stop for him.

[@bsfishing7073]

😮whf

[@juarezderrick9647]

That's what you get for trying to help the pigs

[@noserave3699]

These have to be the chillest wardens ever

[@randlerichardson5826]

That’s just sorriness of someone leaving trash like that

[@rainwhenidie6666]

Yea no doubt. Im a weirdo and even put my cigarette butts back in my pack and bring home to throw in the trash. The world is just lazy. I walk my dog 3-4 times a day and each time I can pick up a piece of someones litter.

[@kd5nrh]

@@rainwhenidie6666 those poop bags are great hiking trash bags. I usually carry a roll on day hikes, and when backpacking, I carry two, with one color for trash and one for anything else. (Smelly/wet laundry, gear that needs a temporary dry bag, etc.) Makes it quick and easy to toss the trash at the trailhead trash cans without having to check every bag.

[@wundarwunop9041]

Its absolutely ridiculous that if you find a shed you cant take it home unless its in a certain month. Laws on laws on laws on top of a mountain of laws anymore.

[@bpdp379]

You missed the point of it being a closed game range?

[@erihaas]

You can’t have every idiot in the world out there pushing game animals out of wintering grounds because they can’t wait to get a shed antler. How doesn’t that make sense to people?

[@Bigworms97]

“Be young again” man is a year older than them at best 😂

[@leeharwell7896]

Push those boundaries gentlemen. The push back is real

[@coltenkilgore1617]

33:53 it all about the money they don't give a damn about the fish or the animals

[@tracyhilliard4521]

Just came across this show on You tube. ❤Fell in love with all the Wardens and the show! This is beautiful country and a wonderful group of Wardens. Hope you all stay safe and thanks for guarding our beautiful country. Hope I see more shows like this. ❤

[@andersnrregren9087]

Its from the 2012 season

[@AIdenLawman-cz9gz]

When they were throwing the sheds back it was like hiding ester eggs

[@ridemtb2656]

Real life Easter bunny’s but better

[@-dystopic-]

Fishing for paddlefish is crazy! Such an odd way to fish for such an odd fish!

[@WilliamSmith-kj5tk]

Paddlefish are not bottom feeders. They are filter feeders

[@This-time-more-than-ever]

Ask the wardens what they did with the stolen sheds after the season started and you will better understand why they do this, lol.

[@truthsayer35]

auctioned with everything else

[@Psyphix85]

On another episode - they dropped the 80 + seized sheds right before the open day for the next year for people to collect as they had already been used as evidence, the case was resolved and they were released.

[@donaldsmith6404]

Blows my mind this ain’t one the biggest shows on here

[@saxman7131]

Only you can prevent wagon wheel.

[@kenweis7913]

Amazing theres never a shortage of offenders........

[@disolejunk]

Is this the same narrator that used to have a fishing show in south Louisiana? Sounds like him

[@markwalters-sf6kp]

Can you catch them and release them immediately without keeping them

[@malcolmscoins7581]

Nice paddle fish

[@markyoung3044]

great videos u guys have good job out there be safe out there

[@TroyGahn-rm2oc]

Looks like they really don't want you to catch those paddle fish

[@michaelwarden5349]

THANK YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH.

[@user-oc7py9bk6n]

Sorry wardens get angry when they can't give a ticket

[@raydowdy6914]

Is the paddle fish good to eat?

[@cozmo1266]

I think Karen should look for a better pair of men to fish with. The one guy was dumping all the illegal catches on to her.

[@ChuckTaylor-ct6fq]

Why the hell is there a season on collecting shed antlers ?

[@meghan7547]

My understanding, those are rules in management areas that are on the "winter range" of the animals, those are closed to everyone so the animals can feed and winter without additional stress. About the animals, not so much the antlers, giving the animals a time of peace to recoup after the Winter.

[@jeremywanner4526]

Metal detector might pick that tracking device up in that horn

[@joyceedwards6112]

Leave the bears alone

[@jasonallen5965]

All kinds of paddle fish in West Tennessee

[@Honkers716]

Wait, do the Wardens pick up the transmitted ones before the season opens again?

[@bpdp379]

Yes.

[@bsfishing7073]

Okay I’m wondering what a questionable boat looks like 😅

[@1A509Media]

WHY can't you pick up antler sheds? It would have been nice if the episode actually addressed that question ...

[@Billy-J-B]

It is because when people go in to pick up sheds at the wrong time of the year it will disturb the elk too much!

[@mechcavandy986]

There’s a quota on those things? I wouldn’t think they’re in danger of becoming extinct! There’s millions of them in the Lower Mississippi where I fish.

[@Gendreau113]

Is it a requirement to THROW the antler sheds as far as high as you can when returning them to the wild?

[@johnwaite3879]

How could you not remember who caught what ?

[@randallsmerna384]

No excuse for littering.

[@This-time-more-than-ever]

Imagine spying on people for hunting dead sheds..... America

[@cerebraltackle]

I will never understand the obsession with catching fish that are 1) in low numbers, borderline protected & 2) have to be snagged.

[@truthsayer35]

ITS A COLOR PHASE BLACK BEAR, NOT A BROWN BEAR

[@BlackDuk]

You can have 6 lines per person in Montana !!!!? In Minnesota you can only have 1 line per person unless your ice fisbing then you can have a whopping 2 lines !! Im moving. Screw Minnesota.

[@kylecirincione6691]

Mt violation fines are a joke, thats why we have so many violaters

[@BobbyGazo]

How many of you have a warden? 😂😂😂

[@hmccarty7189]

Hmmmm didnt know u all had paddle fish in montana thought they were local to grandlake river basins!!! They are not real good to eat ... but thats jus me...

[@bsfishing7073]

I’m not going to bother someone who can’t caught anything after using 15 trotlines 😅desperate for something clearly not a good fishing skill 😅

[@morrisegna9585]

I don't blame that girl one bit, I too would have grabbed Warden Golie's Wrangler butt too. Although they should be two sizes tighter on him.

[@mikekoch1966]

TRYED THEM A FEW TIMES, DONT LIKE THEM.

[@granthedges4114]

Sucks I can only hit like once

[@Rtrstormghost327]

WTH

[@dustinrogers5384]

Cant even live off the land anymore with these posession laws. That's the true purpose of these laws.

[@85Bow]

Paddlefish good to eat?

[@ChuckTaylor-ct6fq]

Montana laws seems flawed to me . The fish limit should not be per the actual angler , but per anglers on the boat . As long as the limit per person is not violated , everything should be good .

[@Tater4200]

The whole "shed season " thing just seems like a money scam.. less people are buying hunting licesne, so they had to come up with another way to make people pay.... its ridiculous

[@richardvincent7764]

If they have not broken any laws why would you ask him for their license. That is to legal when you're driving a car.

[@gageweller9544]

Game wardens can do that, they have more power than a lot of police officers.

[@freedfree7933]

Because F$&k poachers. That’s why

[@keithquinn5624]

These tyrants are so tyranty

[@Mtoutdoorsman]

As long as you do what you’re supposed to do you have nothing to worry about bud

[@matthewchase6744]

Seen this bear fur wheres all the meat who cares about bones and fur. Im not a sycopath im a meat eater.

[@troyjaniszeski-rm5jk]

What are paddlefish good for? From Minnesota and walleye and northern are the deal... perch are good also

[@Berm_Blaster]

I assume bears are hunted for their fur, what is done with all that meat? That is literally a half a ton up to a ton of bear meat!!

[@ktvlm3987]

Eat it. Bear grease

[@muleybuckco]

There's NEVER been a half ton to a ton weight black bear lol, you can't hunt grizzlies in the lower 48, black bears often push 500lbs but never 1000 to a ton which is 2000 lbs. Bear meat is great as well, especially smoked

[@adventuresofguamboy5471]

in Colorado we have a massive problem with immigrants fishing without a license and taking dozens above daily limit, I always hear I didn't need a license in Mexico or whatever country they hail from

[@user-si5oe3rn7e]

Thank joe

[@francislorenz6552]

People can't enjoy hunting and fishing anymore

[@khh108]

Obey the laws and there's nothing to worry about.

[@freedfree7933]

Because so many people go to far. This is basically the only place I advocate for government overreaching