Sportsman Harassment

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Any one that read the Idaho Falls post Register today. There was an Ice fisherman that had legally walked down the ice from a City Boat Ramp into a little bay that has houses around it to fish. He was harassed by a home owner that he was trespassing. The ice fisherman informed him he had been below the high water line and wasn’t trespassing. The home owner kept up the harassment and the ice fisherman waited around for law authorities to talk to him and when after a while they hadn’t shown up he left.

Well the land owner filed a trespassing charge on the guy fishing. The Fish and Game asked the County Prosecutor to file harassment charges on the owner. Bottom line he wouldn’t press the charges.

This same home owner did the same thing a few years back. The State AG ruled against him on the charges, they stated as long as the water was navigable and the person stayed below the high water mark he wasn’t trespassing.

It just so happens the home owner is the head of the local Republican chairman for the county and the County prosecutor doesn’t want to hurt his career by charging him. The Co prosecutor belongs to the same party.

The Fish and Game is going to continue to press forward on the issue.
This is pure b@@@@@@t by the prosecutor to not press harassment against the home owner.

I guess politics win over the law and the poor sportsman who was following the law.

Be interesting to see how this play out.
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