Jeep camping

Thursday evening my 11 year old asked me if we could go jeep camping last weekend since my wife was working overtime and wouldnt be home much. so friday after i got back from fishing and she got home from school, we loaded up and took off. the drive was 3 hrs so we needed to get scootin if we were gonna do any fishing before dark. i had planned on us finding something close to where i wanted to fish. when we got to the turnoff for the lakes i wanted to fish the road past that was closed off cause off forest fires, so the sign said. well i wanted to camp in there and since we couldn't see any signs of fire we drove thru the signs. not to far past the road block is where i was hoping to camp but when we drove down there i didnt realize it was only a day area, no overnight camping. turned around and started driving out to the main road and here came the DNR aka fish cops with the lights on. after some questioning and an ID check he escorted us out. the closest place to camp was the next canyon over.  i didnt want to pay to camp but once we got into that canyon and up to that lake we drove thru the pay camp sites and headed right back out. to packed in there. we took a gamble on a dirt road that was just down the road from the pay to camp sites. the dirt road was only about maybe 150 yards but it had about 6 make shift camp spots along it. we took the farthest from the road and there was nobody else camping off the road so it ended up working out well for us but by the time we got there we only had about 40 minutes till dark so we just got a fire going and set up camp. the next morning after a little fire and some breakfast we closed down camp and drove over to the lakes i had wanted to fish but only fished for about a couple of hours. lakes were supper low and mossy. i did get a few on dries in the little feeder streams and alanna had a couple of chasers with a spinner so it was all good.