I'm afraid I have to agree, Q. There are also too many ridiculous cases clogging up the system. Everyone seems to think it is their right to misbehave and disregard any law they find incovenient.

The law basically IS in place to protect fish from being swept clean from rivers lakes and streams.

If you want to live like a hermit and take your chances out there in the wilderness, it does NOT give you the right to thumb your nose at every legal provision. No one MADE him move out there, I have to imagine. That was his choice, his risk that he alone takes. The law should not be revoked for one person's pleasure. It just doesn't make sense.

And Q, you have every right to weigh in on this---just as everyone else does.