I hate to say this but I will
in the past 5 years i was stopped by F&W 3 times to check my license, 2 times at Gull Lake and one time at Allen Bill Pond (before the floods). I was never checked and never seen a F&W officer at any of the smaller lakes or ponds i have visited. which makes sense since they are more likely to catch someone doing something wrong when going to big lakes like Gull, Sylvan or other highly populated areas.
I have been hunting for three years and drove home with animals in the back every year except last year and i was never checked by any officers. as a matter of fact I hunted my first deer around ground prairie and packed the animal all the way to calgary and never got stopped. I of course had my animals properly tagged with proof of sex and hunted at legal times within season.
now we have 4.5 million people and less than 100 officers, which is a ratio of 1/45000. At these odds, anyone can go and shoot an animal in the woods without a tag and statistically they would never be caught.
in summary, poaching will be going up and up in the next few years
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