Psychic Sleuth
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I always just assumed that the person whose pole broke heard about the search and perhaps notified LE that they had broken a fishing pole there, and that's how they identified the owner.
Perhaps the owner still had the other part of the rod, and the part found on the dam was accidentally left behind, or had washed onto the dam, or another fisher-person had discovered the part that was broken and placed it on the dam so whoever it belonged to could find it if they came back to look for it (especially if it was a good reel which could be separated from the broken rod and be put on another rod).
Lots of possible scenarios, but most would seem to point to the owner coming forward to police, and not the other way around.
Just occurred to me the following -- unless of course, they pulled prints or even a partial print from the fishing pole and were able to identify it that way... definitely possible if it was sitting on top of the dry dam and not actually in the water.
Why wouldn't LE verify with MR whether or not it was Dylan's before spending 2 days searching?