"FROG SEASON?"

By Sr. Agent Frank A. Reger

On Caddo Lake late one evening, I noticed spotlights among the trees of Green Break near the Texas Line. One spotlight was going around in circles as if the driver of the boat was intoxicated. I approached and stopped him to ask what he was doing. He said he had been running some limb lines. I asked him what he was doing going around in circles, and he stated that he was looking for frogs. "Frogs in APRIL.. and admitting it... to the game warden... HA!", I was thinking. I asked him if he caught any, and he said that he had five good ones. I asked to see them, and he flipped open the lid on his ice chest. Sure enough, he had five frogs in the middle of April during the closed season. I told him that frog season was closed. He argued that he did not know there was a frog season. He said that he had never seen it in a pamphlet. I showed him the fishing pamphlet where it was written in bold letters that frog season was closed during April and May. As he returned to the boat ramp that night, he had no frogs and a piece of paper with my signature on it to inform and remind him of the closed season.