Stolen Crab Pots

[Daintreeboy]

A mate and I learnt a lesson in stupidity today by leaving our pots in a creek for a few days and checking them after work each day. We were pretty sure someone had checked them the day before (either Sunday night or Monday morning) as we had only Jennies and one pot had 'moved'.
We rebaited them and came back this arvo only to discover two had gone and a third one had been broken into with the top hook cut open.
This is the first time I've ever done anything like this and straight up I've been shafted. I'd love to get my hands on the #$@%#@ who think this sort of thing is OK. Man that s**ts me.
Aaaahh I feel much better now. [smiley=2thumbsup.gif]

[craigie]

What can I say but "Thieving Parasitic Scum" >:( >:(
May a Croc chew the pricks arm off >:(

Now I feel better for you Daintreeboy :P ;D

Regards Craigie.

[MarcusD]

Mate it's even worse when you catch them in the act and realise that a few crabs aren't worth getting hurt over. (plus the guy I was with was already on probation for violence >:( )

It really does take the fun and rewards out of crabbing. It's so bad now days that I don't even bother...

[Big_Kev]

Same stuff different day.
Heard this one a million times before.
Sorry to hear, but you need to gaurd them with a gun if you want to keep them.
Cheers Kev.

[jeffo]

the only time i bother going crabbing is when i can fish right next to the pots and watch them the whole time. sad but true...

[JB]

My ol man was fishin the bay one day, when some crazy dude motored up holding a shotgun and started raving about people stealing crab pots, its one of those things really there will always be scum around that think they are entitled to free crabs.

[firetruck]

Yeah i've had it happen a couple of times before, i've even had the netting on the pots slashed.

AS you said Marcus_D what happens when you catch up with them? You never know who you're dealing with and what they have with them in the boat!

[basserman]

what ever happend to leaveing a six pack for a few crabs???

[agnes_jack]

Basserman
I heard not so long back about a fella who returned to his pots to find a six pack inside, trouble was they were empty!
mongrels!

Tony ;D

[basserman]

well them i hope all the crabs they got were just as emptie!!!
long gone are the days of trust
it is even starting to get that bad down here to the point of having some dillies stolen (not me but other fishermen)

[Muddie]

what creek are you talking about Daintree,where i live we have a lot of problems with people stealing crab pots and i was talking to someone a couple of weeks ago that had the same story you have.i cant be sure by your blured photo but you look simular to him.anyway i thought his crab pots were long gone but my dad found them on the side of our road (dirt road and very bushy)i took them up to where he was working but he had allready finished his job so i still have them

[stanger]

Last easter I had a $50 note put in my crab pot while houseboating on the tweed river - couldn't believe my luck!!! Must have had a few crabs in it for that :o

Mike

[basserman]

mike that was good to hear!
wish more people were as honest

[Muddie]

sh#t yeh,all ive ever got were trashed pots or no pots at all,does anyone know if daintree still visits this site ???

[bidkev]

Sorry to hear about that daintree boy, but as some of the other guys have said, you have to be careful as you don't know who you're dealing with.

My oldest son and I pulled alongside a guy that was emptying one of our pots in the Pine River only to be met by two other guys coming out of his cabin. They were built like brick dunnies and grogged up to the eyeballs. I was just about fearing the worst when the prick hauling the pot fell overboard! Worth losing a pot and a great laugh to round off the day.

The Pine River is really bad for "raiders" and nowadays I only use my "pro" pots when I am anchored in view. Elsewhere, I use the 7 buck ones that I don't mind losing now and again.

Anyone launching at deepwater bend on the pine river should be aware that the ferals have now stooped to even lower depths. They're actually removing rollers and winches from trailers. I get my missus to launch me in the morning and then take the trailer home, as I live locally.

Hope it doesn't get any worse on the fishing scene as we've now taken to launching at Rudy Maas since our trailers were "lightened" at jacob's Well. Amazing how guys have the balls to do stuff like that at such a busy ramp!

Good luck with hanging on to your remaining pots

kev

[Daintreeboy]

Well the good news is we got the pots back!! The idiot kept rebaiting them and setting them in the same stretch of water. Anyway he's been reported to the relevant authorities and we have our gear back. I can only imagine he does this often as it was so blatant and he kept going back to the same area to reset them, the hide >:(

[Hutcho]

Good to hear Daintree. What a wan*er to first of all steal 'em, but then keep puting me back int he same spot. I hope he gets what he deserves.

[smiley=behead.gif]

hutcho.

[davo]

Try putting a brick in the bottom of the pot and sewing a couple of black Gamakasu hooks about half way up the rope.

They pull them up and get a nasty surprise. This was done up a Bundy a few years back with a very effective result

[lordy]

mike that was good to hear!
wish more people were as honest

Honest? They were stealing his crabs!

Not that you'd knock a $50 note, at least they gave some quality remuneration.

[basserman]

yeh but it was the unwritten rule going back some years now that if you wanted a feed of muddies but didn't have the trap the old six pack was the excange for one
$50 ??? well i would think that would more than cover a few ;D

i know i would be just as happy to put a pot up with $50 than one with a few muddies ;D

[catching]

mate got 3 pro pots floged from near the pin 2 weeks back a very costly 2 nites

[coyote3]

what sort of criminals are we breeding when they raid other peoples pots but dont take jennys(sumsing a little FRUEDIAN about dat) dont ya rekon..

[megan]

It's all too true - there are a lot people out there who just don't respect other peoples property.

[devocean]

I get my pots robbed all the time by the bloody kids I teach and they tell meabout it on monday and there is nothing I can do. They laugh I get cranky but at least it gives me a reason to put them back out again.

I have started sinking pots lately using a brick and about 4 metres of rope attached to the pot. Drag the brick out from the pot then use a reef anchor to pull them in. GPS is usful but I only do this in creeks without a lot of run. I know guys who have made gant pots like about 3 mtres long by about 2 metres wide and sink them permanetly this way with about 3 chickens for bait.

This is the only way to ensure a feed sometimes how sad it is

Devocean

[sharkbait]

Had 8 pots stolen from the pin last weekend >:(

[joeT]

yeh but it was the unwritten rule going back some years now that if you wanted a feed of muddies but didn't have the trap the old six pack was the excange for one
$50 ??? well i would think that would more than cover a few ;D

i know i would be just as happy to put a pot up with $50 than one with a few muddies ;D

I'd prefer if people didn't touch my pots at all in the first place...

[tshort]

Anyone around the pin should get over it, I can remember stolen or raided pots being an issue back in the 70's. When you go to the trouble of going up creeks and drains in very light traffic areas or spots inaccessable at low tide & then still get beaten to the crabs really shits me. I've just loaned 8 pots to a mate to take on hols with, 4 have never hit the water. Wont tell you where he's gone incase the share farmers look at this site too!

[tshort]

The mate I loaned the pots to just got back and brought me a nice muddy. Only put 4 pots out twice due to weather and too scared to leave them out overnight, for 20 crabs. Who wants to know where he went.

[Aaron_Fogarty]

Saw a pro fisherman in a 25ft plate mono hull Tbone a couple of young blokes side on in a 17ft SeaFairer out from fisherman Island once for pulling his pots. The Oar battle that raged afterwards was Quite a spectical while whiting fishing. Alot of damage and sore heads for a couple of sandies. Maybe they thought twice the next time a lonely float presented itself.
Aaron

[Aaron_Fogarty]

I ve got 4 beautifully built wire pro pots made by Peter Sringer for my 21st Birthday 10 years ago. They are still in the shed and Ive never used them.Too scared to loose em! Its a sad world we live in.
Maybe oneday
Aaron

[mackmauler]

elprez, where was he crabbing, 20 sounds better than what im doing lately!

[adamleah]

Kris,
Think you may need to read Derricks post on 148 Pots being picked up from the pin - coochie on the weekend . you may find yours are with them... :o

[Hobes]

Just wondering what is the pin? :-/

[Aaron_Fogarty]

Jumpin pin bar, a stretch of water between North and South Stradbroke Island, Brisbane. Blokes usually mention the "pin" as being all the sheltered waterways inside this bar and the northern end of south Stradbroke Island.
Hope this helps
Aaron