03/02/2008 - SE Indiana, Temp 38, Water Temp 38, 12 inch Brown on a size 10 Hellgrammite, cabin fever strikes, can not wait to fish when I don't have to break the ice out of my guides every other cast.

12-29-07 Spoke to soon, Ice in the guides and snow in the air . Good day of fishing even with numb fingers.

Encountered a unique situation that I would appreciate other view points on how it could have been better handled. Two bank fishing spin fishermen were working up the river  when they passed me by and managed to hook into a nice 14 inch Brown trout that they landed and then threw on the bank. I politely pointed out to these two rather large gentlemen that the regs for the river are that the creel limit for the river was 5 fish of which only one could be a Brown trout and that the Brown trout had to be a minimum of 18 inches in length. Their non-verbal hand gesture indicated that the regs did not apply to them. What would you have done differently? This river receives a fair amount of pressure and if the regs are not followed there will be no resource to regulate.