Thats what I was referring to when I wrote "thats kind of funny".

Fish4brains was right. I did make the wrong call. As far as why no charges were pressed, I don't know exactly what the conversation between the sheriff and the rod owner was, but when the sheriff asked me where I found the rods, and I replied "on a small bar in the middle of the river". He confirmed that with the owner, and then called on the radio "cancel back up. there was reason to believe the rods were abandoned." The entire time spent on that contact with LE was about 7 to 10 minutes.

Stuff like this is sucking the energy out of me. I'm withdrawing from any further fisheries related community activity, and charitable activity. I can better spend those 3 weeks a year fishing for myself, or working overtime. Since my community involvement has no reflection on my character I'm thinking why bother. My free time is worth a lot more than a pair of rod and reels. I'll leave it to guys like Jake to make the world a better place.

Bye.