John Moore

And he said, oh my God.

So we told him the whole story too.

And he's like, can I take pictures?

And so we had...

You know, we're posing with all this line, and he was taking pictures.

He's like, I'll put it in my fishing blog.

This is so crazy.

And that was one of the pictures that then went viral online.

And I was just ignoring it because I thought there's no way that that's a permitted line because, you know, we'd already talked to all the authorities and no one had told us that there was a permitted line out there.

But then I was still talking to Fish and Wildlife that evening and they said, hey, well, can we talk to you again tomorrow?

And I said, yeah, absolutely.

And they were at this point, they're still everyone's so nice and friendly.

And, you know, they were acting like we had thwarted a crime.

And it wasn't until the next morning that, like, all of a sudden the tone had changed.

So I called them and now the guy was like very, like the tone had changed so dramatically on the phone.

And the guy now was like super aggro sounding on the phone.

He's like, I need you to come down to the marina right now and I wanna talk to you.

And I was like, hey, I'm gonna talk to a lawyer because I knew something was up and I did not go down and meet him.

And I said, you can talk to my lawyer.

And it was permitted through NOAA, through the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.