Wow. I'm surprised not just that I'd be taken for a thief, but a thief stupid enough to make my get away in a drift boat with only Modrow Bridge, or Camp Kalama as my 'escape' routes. I wasn't rowing hard for the take out when the guy caught up to me. We were on anchor, and in sight of the road. There's not much to the story. I ran across a couple of rods on a grassy bar in the middle of the river, in a spot that at the current river level I'd only expect a DB to pull up on, and no boat around.

Anyways, I sent a PM to 'zachery' which I'll share here since it explains the rest of what happened. I'd welcome a call from the owner of the rods, I am sorry for causing him troubles.

VHawk


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Zach,

I didn't get a chance to talk with your friend before he left with his rods. We pulled the boat over on that little gravel bar that sits upstream of schoolhouse hole to fish the side channel. We didn't see the gear until we pulled the boat over, and not because it wasn't visible, but because it's the last place you'd expect to see gear. After we hung out and fished the side channel for about 20 minutes I asked my friend what should we do with the gear since the closest guys were well upstream and in possesion of their gear. He said, throw the rods in the boat and we'll drop them off at Mahfey's when we do the turn around from Modrow. We figured someone had done a boat stop and left their gear. That someone had waded out their to leave two rods wasn't really a consideration we had.

We were on anchor when your friend caught up to us. It wasn't a grab and haul ass out-of-their kind of thing. I feel bad about this, but if anyone thinks my intention was to steal someones rods it just isn't so. I was in the driftboat. There's only 2 places downstream to take out...Modrow, and Camp Kalama.

I wish I had had the chance to talk with your friend before he left. If you would pass this message along I would appreciate it. Tell him I'm sorry for giving him an ulcer.

Vince

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