Do you get ticketed on first offence? By my understanding if I don't see the signs, technically you didn't post it well enough so I should just get a warning?? According to your comment,;whether there are signs or not you can get ticketed which would make my first comments about making sure you aren't on private property correct?.
We bought the property so that we could have a place to fish without being shoulder to shoulder with other people. There are steelhead in spring and fall, and resi browns in summer. We own both banks, as well as the stream bed in between.
People don't respect the fence or the signs, they pull the signs down and climb right over the fence. So too bad for them, I call the OPP and they charge them with trespass every time.
I once even had three idiots from a certain "fishing team" try to crowd me out of my own pool. On my own property. So I told them they were trespassing and the head loudmouth starts yapping about how they have the right to fish up to the high water mark and if I don't like it I can go scr*w myself. Called the OPP (they know me by now) and all three were charged.
So many fishermen are complete idiots. Even with a fence and no trespassing signs and calling the OPP you would not believe how many Tim Horton cups and styrofoam worm containers and wads of line and other garbage I cleaned up this week. All on MY property. This is why guys like me who own property have zero patience with fishermen. Not all are idiots, I know that. But too many of them are.