someone needs them more than us

[Millsydude]

Megabite,

i had exactly the same thing happen to mine Thursday night, i put mine in between Coochie and Macleay chasing sandies (after reading Rosco's report) i used heavy duty zip ties, but made no difference. Sorry to hear about the young fella, absolute scumbags!!

[MEGA'bite]

I would like to here comment from one of the dpi/f officers that monitor this site.
Do they do spot checks of large anchored vessels , such as the one wich was anchored not far from the mouth of the logan river.

[Spaniard_King]

I would like to here comment from one of the dpi/f officers that monitor this site.
Do they do spot checks of large anchored vessels , such as the one wich was anchored not far from the mouth of the logan river.

Fisheries Officers don't comment on open forums

[theangryangler]

Bit late now mate but NEVER leave your pots where you are not watching them a i have had #$#$% check mine in the logan with me sittin 150M away. these mongrels are everywhere!!!!! last time all mine went missin they tied the floats up and hearled them into the mangroves!!!

[theangryangler]

I know a bloke that splices hooks into his crabpot rope!

Trebles I think. That will give them the hurry up

I asked a dpi inspecter about a method similar to this and he told me if he pulls it up to checkj markings and cut/hooked himself he will have the owner charged!!
so do be careful with booby trappin your ropes/pots

[Spot82]

I know that feeling mate!!! In Hervey Bay i have lost count of how many times we have caught the Pro's checking our pots!! They soon stop doing it after they cop a nice ramming into the mangroves....

I have mates who only go crabbing with no ropes on their pots and in creeks that you can only access on high tide, it sucks to have to do that but that is what the world is coming to!

Hope your next crabbing session is more successful!!

Anthony

[XtremeBoony]

hey guys, we have the same problem here on the capricorn coast where i go crabbing. It's not just the pro's that run pots though because there are f***w** rec fishers out there as well. About the only solution that me and the old man can come up with is this (also we are all aware of how little resources and manning the fisheries have got):
If the fisheries could pull there finger out and have a qld wide crack down on crab thieving over say the length of a month. Put a heap of microchipped crabs out in normal looking pots in all of the problem areas and catch these as*holes red handed, NO EXCUSES. Have the fines for this type of behaviour raised ten fold and by that I mean if you are caught red handed then you lose your car, boat and all fishing gear and slapped with about a $50k fine. Once some of these idiots have been caught then splash all of this throughout newspapers, news reports and on sites such as this one. We are pretty confident that this will fix the problem overnight. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

just our thoughts on this ever persistent problem

cheers from boony

[mmmouse]

i feel your pain...had to explain to my 3 year old son that our crab pot wasn't where we put it because some low life piece of sh!t decided he wanted it more than we did (didn't use those words...he was only 3!!)

crab and crab pot thievery is IMHO the single lowest act any fisherman can do to another fisherman...catching crabs ain't hard...get off your arse and go crabbing like the rest of us or be warned...someone will get shot one day..it might just be you!!!

[rynosaurus]

sorry to hear mate - yer lost 3 of 4 pots last friday in the south pine river and the last one was checked :rolly eyes:

anywyas not much you can do but wait on top of them and im not likely to do that

[Triple]

So what is the estimated percentage of just lost pots that are assumed stolen? Or empty pots that are assumed raided? Seems like everyones pots are being stolen or raided and never just lost with the tide due to poor floats/knots/placement or just no crabs caught. (Yes I know cut zipties and floats in trees prove they have been tampered with) Surely there is not that many lowlifes on the water is there?

[Chamelion]

I know a bloke that splices hooks into his crabpot rope!

Trebles I think. That will give them the hurry up

I agree with the idea, but unfortunately one of the thieves will get hurt and then sue the bloke for thousands... It's the world we live in.

[4x4frog]

megabite, I feel for you too.
My grandfather and I used to cop this cr&p even 30 years ago in Lake Cootharaba.

I wonder what a couple of viles of bank dye would do to these tossers. They'd be covered in it and all you'd have to do is notify the Police to look for boaties with dye all over them.

[caster226]

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