for those of you claiming you trespassed, was this while hunting? if so, you are a poacher, no if ands or buts about it. i can see trailing a deer or shed hunting maybe, but trespassing + hunting = poaching.
I sometimes walk on the wrong side of the fence for about 8 ft to be able to cross the fence where it is down. Does that mean I poach? No. We don't always call when a deer falls on the wrong side of the fence. Same neighbor as the last 15 years and he said whenever we need to, as long as we are trailing downed game.