Didnt know where else to put this topic and yes im aware this is a bass forum but i didnt have anywhere else to put it,
Recently we have been running a trot line with livers and hotdogs in my friends lake, small lake id say 8 acres or so, maybe smaller, we ran the line from one side to the other, worked on making it all day long, and one side we tied it on we noticed it fell off into the water, we didnt think it came untied. I tied a really really good not, To a tree at the edge of the water/bank. So we picked it up from the other side and re tied it. Today we had a Noodle out in a shallow part of the lake, this man was fishing and all of a sudden he picks it up while were sitting on the back porch, and throws it on the bank. I yell "Hey what the hell are you doing?" he says "come get it" i went out there to get it, i told him what makes him think he can pick up my noodle i set out like that? He proclaims "Its on my property i can do whatever i want" I said Sir when you bought your house you didnt buy the water, he says my property line goes into the water, I told him i didnt think that was true, i asked if he was the guy who was messing with our trotlines and he told me he has, i told him were just a bunch of kids trying to have fun, he told me "this isnt a lake for running trotlines and jugging son" i told him we could argue alll day but its not right for him to move my jugs and cut my trotlines
As far as im concerned, is he right here? In fishermans law i guess you could say hes wrong and you dont mess with another mans stuff, I put my noodle back out and rebaited it, Am i right here for saying something to him? I thought on lakes 5 feet on the shore was private property, What should i do next time he messes with our stuff? What should i do?
Give me some help