Would you hunt with a poacher or been seen with one

with all this talk of poachers and tv celebrities being caught if you knew one would you tell would you be seen hunting with them or do business with a company that has them on staff ect it seem they want famous people to promote there products at any cost

A hypothetical situation I've thought of, what if it was someone close to you? family? that was doing the poaching, or told you about it? would you report them? or just choose not to hunt with them?

This should get any COs that are crusing this forum to perk up their ears. That being said, if my parents were poaching Canada Geese not a chance I would report them (they gave me life), but I would not hunt with them either. Now if they were poaching white rino's I would have a much tougher decision.

Knew a gentleman( let's say man) poached big deer like crazy, to the point that it was almost addictive. The warden new about it but had a tough time catching him. I never said anything because he was related to the gentleman whose property that I hunted on. Needless to say I would never hunt with him. A nice polite guy but if it had big horns he'd kill it out of season or with a rifle in bow season didn't matter. Funny thing is that I heard someone broke into his shed and stole everyone of his antlers and he had enough to fill a truck bed up with, heard it put him over the edge. Guess everything comes full circle.

It would depend when it happened and why. Do you mean recent or at any point in time? My Grandfather poached all the time back in the 1950's. My Mother's family was very poor. My Grandfather poached deer, lobster, anything he could at anytime and wild game was a main staple for their family.

My brother once poached when he was 10. We were fishing for Landlock salmon with our Dad and a CO. He caught his first Landlock it was 1/2 an inch under the slot size. I had told him he would have to throw it back. The Co asked him if it was his first fish and it was. The CO looked at it and said looks to be the correct size end of story.

But these might be exceptions to the rule. But poaching for the fun of it or profit etc not acceptable.

for me it depends on if they are continually poaching or made a mistake. If it was a thing of their past and they say they will never do it again and I never see them do it again then I would give them a second chance. If it was someone who was doing it continually then absolutely not.

We had a guy shot a bull moose that had like a 40" rack and we only had a cow tag. He didn't seem to care and said "we'll it might be the only moose I ever see so I shot it"



I have never seen my dad fly off the handle like that before, He tore a stripe off the guy, Called the MNR (guy pleaded with my dad to just let it spoil and not worry about it) . MNR showed up, We told them exactly what happened. Guy was charged, Forfeited his rifle and the moose. The MNR was really impressed that our gang would report one of our own but in reality he wasn't part of our gang, He was in a fill in guy that was told to pack his stuff up and never come back.


He has tried to come back to our camp deer hunting as he is a friend of our members but not going to happen. He obviously didn't care about playing the rules and I think he has done it before as well (but not with us)

The 2nd pole is common at a lot of camps.....for 'accidents' :)

(note; ref to other thread)

Great white, I'd hunt fish with you. I don't for one second regard someone needing to take game off their farm or private land to put food on their table for a hungry family as poaching. That's called survival.

Back in the old days before the Tom Pidge heads of the camo $ informercial hunt world men hunted solely for the purpose of putting food on the table, Big deer were harvested because they solely fed more people not because they had some silly head of horns and could help some company move crap product.

remember fold, branding is everything... And the ultimate goody good Tiger woods brand want quite as it seemed either.

One guy I hunt and fish with got charged with fishing withtwo rods.Someone who wasn’t fishing atthe time rod had the line in the water and a fish grabbed it.Well the rod was going in the water so hegrabbed the rod and gave it to the guy to reel in.Severalhours later on shore an MNR guy shows up asking questions looking at our catch,we never thought anything of it.Theylook at the licences and catch and see we were not from the area and fine theguy for fishing with two rods.One thingthat was said the MNR guy wouldn’t answer is if the rod went over would theother guy be fined with littering? We figure he was fined because we were notfrom the area to come back and fight it.