Whether you agree or not with their actions it's a good reminder to get your boat paperwork and records in order if tgey are not.

You can do that in Texas until the police or game warden runs the serial number and it comes back stolen.

They had 4-5 “Fish Police/mr Green Jeans” at The Pavillion ramp Friday as everyone was trying to get out of the water.
They asked for boat registration card and were checking vin numbers on boat/motors/trailers as we were all pulling out of the water trying to get strapped down and out of the way…..they didn’t check anything else.

The paper made it sound like they did some great job finding $100k in stolen boat/motors? That’s really nothing in todays market prices

The rookie inspecting my boat didn’t even know where to look for the motor vin, so I had to stop strapping the boat down and show him, then he asked where the vin was on the boat….so I showed him that too…

I asked him if this was his first week on the job….we both laughed and he said he was pretty new
Glad they recovered some stuff, but for that many boats, $100k isn’t much

Glad they nailed the scofflaws trying to skirt their financial responsibilities to the state... ... I'm just glad I live in a state that makes it easy. Boat and motor are registered as one, just show that you paid state taxes when you bought the boat... Registering the trailer is optional in Tennessee. And in Ohio, all you need is the trailers MSO or previous registration... Dan

Actually stolen motors is big. I was in FL a few years ago and was talking with a guy who had his stolen.The thieves do it during hurricanes in storage places.

In Arkansas the trailer is titled but not the boat or motor. Just registration for boat and motor as one unit.

Louisiana used to be pretty loose on all this stuff. I knew of someone that bought a boat and trailer out of an estate sale and they were given the paper work for it all; obviously unsigned. They took the paper work to the local DMV office and asked what to do and they were told it would have to be signed by the previous owner which obviously wasn't going to happen. The guy at the DMV office they were dealing with told them to step out in the hall the guy that owned it all just might be standing out there and he was. They scribbled a signature on it all and the DMV ran it through.