Tag: Trespassing

"Don’t tread on …Public Lands?"

From the September 2019 Issue of Strung Magazine: The Upland Issue By Beau Beasley It was a beautiful day in the spring of 2012 when small business owner and fly angler Dargan Coggeshall headed to the river to clear his head. Tucking his fishing license into his pocket and his fly box into his kayak, Coggeshall entered one of Virginia’s finest waterways...

Jackson River Privatization Update

DARGAN COGGSHALL'S legal troubles began in June 2010, when he and his brother-in-law, Frank Garden, decided to fish on the Jackson River near the home of Dr. John Feldenzer, a surgeon from Roanoke. River’s Edge owner Matt Sponaugle, who had sold the riverfront property to the Feldenzers, insisted that the anglers leave that section of the river...