Reading Wader's thread, "Donated Rod" got me to thinking about stories about found and returned fishing gear.

A year or two ago a guide on the Skagit snagged a spey rod and reel while swinging for steelhead. Don't remember the exacts on the rod/reel but I do remember it was a spey rod with reel of fair quality. The guide posted up on several local Internet BBs that he had found this rod and some specifics about where and how he had found it.

Some time later a gentleman came forth with a tale of losing a spey rod overboard in the general area of the Skagit where the guide found the rod. After giving a detailed description of the rescued rod/reel it was returned to its rightful owner.

True story that was witnessed by hundreds if not thousands as it played out over the Internet.

Any more?