Sol,
I am glad and feel grateful of your actions.
The biggest B.S. is when the officials looking and going out of their ways to make a nasty scene on responsible people like yourself and my friend.
As for me, I haven't found any nets yet but rest asure that I will be doing the same as you.
Since we're at it, a college buddy of mine went fishing with me on the Snake about 8 years ago. He actually wasn't fishing at all but only my companion. I was the only person doing the fishing and this was his first time ever witnessing someone fishing for steelhead. Well, he got bored so he walked the shore to look for useless stuff. Finally he found a mono line tied to a rock. Being bored out of his mind so he curiously pulled this line in to find a hook with bait. And out of nowhere here comes a gamie and wrote him up for fishing without a license. This B.S. took us to the Colfax court house and ended up paying for the full fine as written. Since this day, this city boy is still a city boy. No matter how hard I tried to pursuad him to go fishing with me, he always reminded me of this stupid incident and refuse every time. Nice huh??