At 16, I was bold/stupid enough to park right alongside the newly installed No Parking sign, right across the street from a severely worn down, rusty nail, flapping in the breeze No Trespassing sign. A quick cast or two turned into 30 minutes, 10 of those, the fuzz was camped out at the car- fuming. This is precisely what made the walk of shame so bad. The "What sign? I didn't see any sign!?" excuse might have worked on the battered N trespassing sign, but it certainly wasn't going to work on the brand new, bright, shiny, reflective, red and white NO PARKING Anytime sign posted right there alongside where my dumb *** parked mom's car.
In the 21+ years since then, I've become a much more respectful and wiser trespasser/fisherman and I always ask permission to go onto peoples property. Incidentally, whether your wading through or just sitting on a rock in the middle of the creek, if it's private land, it's trespassing. The only way around that is to float it. The land owner does not own the water, just the ground it runs over. Most land owners in heavily fished areas would have a different view of this, I'm sure.
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