Ctu wrote:Either the DC writers are losing there touch or I am just getting better at figuring these cases out. I was able to figure out the case before Conan cough the suspect

but did not think about the blood stain on the pants which got the mender cough
IMO, the case for this one was just very easy. I figured everything out before Conan did too. Seems that's usually the case, though, for an AO ep as opposed to a manga-based one.
I figured out the trick, partially after Conan discovered the floating thing, figured something was up with the guy going out an hour earlier than usual to fish, found it was obvious that the guy who was the culprit, was the culprit when he was anxious to help out, and found it strange that he never rolled his pants legs back down, and it was 100% obvious he was the culprit when bumping into the girl with the bag and scrambled to put everything back in it. There were so many hints, it was crazy.