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Most people have never imagined the often dicey, comical, and sometimes bizarre job of a Florida game warden. Backcountry Lawman tells what it’s like to catch an armed poacher in the act - alone, at night, without backup or a decent radio to call for help. These stories describe the cat-and-mouse games often played between game wardens and poachers of ducks, turkeys, hogs, deer, gators, and other species. Few people realize that """"monkey fishing"""" - electrocution of catfish - had the same outlaw mystique in the rivers of Florida as moonshining once did in the hills of Georgia and Tennessee.

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An inside look at the sometimes amusing and sometimes scary things game wardens must do to catch fish and wildlife law violators. --Sun Sentinel As thrilling as any Indiana Jones epic. --Florida Times-Union Between the flat out laughs is a glimpse into what can be a deadly job. --St. Augustine Record Entertaining, enlightening and occasionally hilarious. --Outdoor Wire Pure joy to read. . . . Backcounty Lawman has something for everybody, including white-knuckle boat chases in the dark, surveillance on bird poachers, deer decoy operations, and even an entertaining, yet important, pollution case. --International Game Warden A fast, fun read that anyone who has spent much time in the Florida outdoors will thoroughly enjoy. --Fishing Wire Details the many cat and mouse games poachers and game wardens play, featuring interesting real-life characters on both sides of the law who are constantly changing their tactics to stay one step ahead of the other. --Woods 'n Water Lee . . . tells quite a story. As he relates his experiences you feel like you are sitting beside him in his 18-foot fiberglass 'Old Timer' patrol boat. --Panama City News Herald

A fast, fun read that anyone who has spent much time in the Florida outdoors will thoroughly enjoy. -- Fishing Wire As thrilling as any Indiana Jones epic. Florida Times-Union Lee . . . tells quite a story. As he relates his experiences you feel like you are sitting beside him in his 18-foot fiberglass Old Timer patrol boat. Panama City News Herald Pure joy to read. . . . Backcounty Lawman has something for everybody, including white-knuckle boat chases in the dark, surveillance on bird poachers, deer decoy operations, and even an entertaining, yet important, pollution case. International Game Warden A fast, fun read that anyone who has spent much time in the Florida outdoors will thoroughly enjoy. Fishing Wire Entertaining, enlightening and occasionally hilarious. Outdoor Wire Details the many cat and mouse games poachers and game wardens play, featuring interesting real-life characters on both sides of the law who are constantly changing their tactics to stay one step ahead of the other. Woods n Water Between the flat out laughs is a glimpse into what can be a deadly job. St. Augustine Record An inside look at the sometimes amusing and sometimes scary things game wardens must do to catch fish and wildlife law violators. Sun Sentinel Details the many cat and mouse games poachers and game wardens play, featuring interesting real-life characters on both sides of the law who are constantly changing their tactics to stay one step ahead of the other. Woods n Water An inside look at the sometimes amusing and sometimes scary things game wardens must do to catch fish and wildlife law violators. Sun Sentinel Between the flat out laughs is a glimpse into what can be a deadly job. St. Augustine Record Entertaining, enlightening and occasionally hilarious. Outdoor Wire Lee . . . tells quite a story. As he relates his experiences you feel like you are sitting beside him in his 18-foot fiberglass Old Timer patrol boat. Panama City News Herald A fast, fun read that anyone who has spent much time in the Florida outdoors will thoroughly enjoy. Fishing Wire Pure joy to read. . . . Backcounty Lawman has something for everybody, including white-knuckle boat chases in the dark, surveillance on bird poachers, deer decoy operations, and even an entertaining, yet important, pollution case. International Game Warden As thrilling as any Indiana Jones epic. Florida Times-Union Details the many cat and mouse games poachers and game wardens play, featuring interesting real-life characters on both sides of the law who are constantly changing their tactics to stay one step ahead of the other. -- Woods 'n Water An inside look at the sometimes amusing and sometimes scary things game wardens must do to catch fish and wildlife law violators. -- Sun Sentinel Between the flat out laughs is a glimpse into what can be a deadly job. -- St. Augustine Record Entertaining, enlightening and occasionally hilarious. --Outdoor Wire Lee . . . tells quite a story. As he relates his experiences you feel like you are sitting beside him in his 18-foot fiberglass 'Old Timer' patrol boat. -- Panama City News Herald Pure joy to read. . . . Backcounty Lawman has something for everybody, including white-knuckle boat chases in the dark, surveillance on bird poachers, deer decoy operations, and even an entertaining, yet important, pollution case. -- International Game Warden As thrilling as any Indiana Jones epic. -- Florida Times-Union

A fast, fun read that anyone who has spent much time in the Florida outdoors will thoroughly enjoy. -- Fishing Wire An inside look at the sometimes amusing and sometimes scary things game wardens must do to catch fish and wildlife law violators. --Sun Sentinel Pure joy to read. . . . Backcounty Lawman has something for everybody, including white-knuckle boat chases in the dark, surveillance on bird poachers, deer decoy operations, and even an entertaining, yet important, pollution case. --International Game Warden As thrilling as any Indiana Jones epic. --Florida Times-Union A fast, fun read that anyone who has spent much time in the Florida outdoors will thoroughly enjoy. --Fishing Wire Between the flat out laughs is a glimpse into what can be a deadly job. --St. Augustine Record Details the many cat and mouse games poachers and game wardens play, featuring interesting real-life characters on both sides of the law who are constantly changing their tactics to stay one step ahead of the other. --Woods 'n Water Entertaining, enlightening and occasionally hilarious. --Outdoor Wire Lee . . . tells quite a story. As he relates his experiences you feel like you are sitting beside him in his 18-foot fiberglass 'Old Timer' patrol boat. --Panama City News Herald As thrilling as any Indiana Jones epic. Florida Times-Union Lee . . . tells quite a story. As he relates his experiences you feel like you are sitting beside him in his 18-foot fiberglass Old Timer patrol boat. Panama City News Herald Pure joy to read. . . . Backcounty Lawman has something for everybody, including white-knuckle boat chases in the dark, surveillance on bird poachers, deer decoy operations, and even an entertaining, yet important, pollution case. International Game Warden A fast, fun read that anyone who has spent much time in the Florida outdoors will thoroughly enjoy. Fishing Wire Entertaining, enlightening and occasionally hilarious. Outdoor Wire Details the many cat and mouse games poachers and game wardens play, featuring interesting real-life characters on both sides of the law who are constantly changing their tactics to stay one step ahead of the other. Woods n Water Between the flat out laughs is a glimpse into what can be a deadly job. St. Augustine Record An inside look at the sometimes amusing and sometimes scary things game wardens must do to catch fish and wildlife law violators. Sun Sentinel Details the many cat and mouse games poachers and game wardens play, featuring interesting real-life characters on both sides of the law who are constantly changing their tactics to stay one step ahead of the other. Woods n Water An inside look at the sometimes amusing and sometimes scary things game wardens must do to catch fish and wildlife law violators. Sun Sentinel Between the flat out laughs is a glimpse into what can be a deadly job. St. Augustine Record Entertaining, enlightening and occasionally hilarious. Outdoor Wire Lee . . . tells quite a story. As he relates his experiences you feel like you are sitting beside him in his 18-foot fiberglass Old Timer patrol boat. Panama City News Herald A fast, fun read that anyone who has spent much time in the Florida outdoors will thoroughly enjoy. Fishing Wire Pure joy to read. . . . Backcounty Lawman has something for everybody, including white-knuckle boat chases in the dark, surveillance on bird poachers, deer decoy operations, and even an entertaining, yet important, pollution case. International Game Warden As thrilling as any Indiana Jones epic. Florida Times-Union Details the many cat and mouse games poachers and game wardens play, featuring interesting real-life characters on both sides of the law who are constantly changing their tactics to stay one step ahead of the other. -- Woods 'n Water An inside look at the sometimes amusing and sometimes scary things game wardens must do to catch fish and wildlife law violators. -- Sun Sentinel Between the flat out laughs is a glimpse into what can be a deadly job. -- St. Augustine Record Entertaining, enlightening and occasionally hilarious. --Outdoor Wire Lee . . . tells quite a story. As he relates his experiences you feel like you are sitting beside him in his 18-foot fiberglass 'Old Timer' patrol boat. -- Panama City News Herald Pure joy to read. . . . Backcounty Lawman has something for everybody, including white-knuckle boat chases in the dark, surveillance on bird poachers, deer decoy operations, and even an entertaining, yet important, pollution case. -- International Game Warden As thrilling as any Indiana Jones epic. -- Florida Times-Union

Pure joy to read. . . . Backcounty Lawman has something for everybody, including white-knuckle boat chases in the dark, surveillance on bird poachers, deer decoy operations, and even an entertaining, yet important, pollution case. --International Game Warden Lee . . . tells quite a story. As he relates his experiences you feel like you are sitting beside him in his 18-foot fiberglass 'Old Timer' patrol boat. --Panama City News Herald Entertaining, enlightening and occasionally hilarious. --Outdoor Wire Details the many cat and mouse games poachers and game wardens play, featuring interesting real-life characters on both sides of the law who are constantly changing their tactics to stay one step ahead of the other. --Woods 'n Water Between the flat out laughs is a glimpse into what can be a deadly job. --St. Augustine Record As thrilling as any Indiana Jones epic. --Florida Times-Union An inside look at the sometimes amusing and sometimes scary things game wardens must do to catch fish and wildlife law violators. --Sun Sentinel A fast, fun read that anyone who has spent much time in the Florida outdoors will thoroughly enjoy. --Fishing Wire

Details the many cat and mouse games poachers and game wardens play, featuring interesting real-life characters on both sides of the law who are constantly changing their tactics to stay one step ahead of the other. Woods n Water

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Bob H. Lee spent over three decades as a water patrol officer on the St. Johns River and a land patrol lieutenant in Putnam, St. Johns, and Flagler counties. Before retiring in 2007, he taught man-tracking classes through the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

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