Chances are that person in the boat took the stringer however what is done is done. All you could have done is ask the man if he saw a stringer of fish and take his answer one way or the other. One thing for certain the man upstairs knows where that stringer is at. Things happen for a reason!

Maybe a turtle ate them???

we thunk it could be so ....but them lil turtle fingers have a heck of time undoing double knots in nylon stringers

Some people start out as low life thieves and remain low life thieves no matter how long they live, no matter what they acquire in life.

He knew he had stolen your fish and stringer. If he had any honesty in him he would have returned them, telling you he was sorry but he thought they had been abandoned.

I have news for him. No matter how often he goes to church and pays the preacher he can not buy his way into heaven. His actions, and especially the small actions people don't see, are buying him a lot of years in a very uncomfortable place.

I tried to teach my kids that if it was not yours don't touch it and I was proud to discover my grandchildren are being tough the same thing. I had my 5 year grandson with me at the store last month. He saw a quarter lying on the floor and told me. I told him to pick it up. He told me he couldn't, it didn't belong to him. So I told him to pick it up and give it to the cashier up front. So we took it up there and ask the cashier to return it to whoever lost it if they asked about it. She looked at me funny, but then put it into the store register.

So in my opinion you could have requested the stringer back if he needed the fish. He could have then apologized and return everything, returned just the stringer or kept everything.

I would not have pushed the issue beyond that. There are too many crazies in the world to push such a minor issue and risk serious injury to either party.

So for whatever my opinion is worth, you did the right thing by not making a big issue from this.

Are there high life thives? Also what if it had been a 100.00 dollar bill on a stringer, or laying on the ground, what would have some of you done?:-):-):-):-):-)

What if the guy had left in a panic or just abandoned the fish. I made a call to a warden who is my cousin and leaving the fish unattended is actually a violation, a ticketable offense. Derrelick abandonment, once the fish is taken off the hook it must not leave the fisherman`s possession.

Really?? One thing I would not do is go and take a stringer of fish that were not mine.