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Firefighterj80
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 Posted - 04/10/2012 : 7:41:25 PM
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| Anyone had issues with people stealing their crab pots? My buddy and I just bought a pot, placed rebar in it for weight, dropped it over a road bridge on Daniel Island, and come back not even 24 hours and some jack off stole it. Not sure that anything can be done about it but feels good to blow off some steam. |
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YnR
Intermediate Member
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Posted - 04/10/2012 : 7:46:46 PM
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| This, unfortunately, is not a new phenomenon. |
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Optiker
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/10/2012 : 7:54:01 PM
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Sigh. We just came off a full moon with extreme tides. I bet it was dragged to deep water. Everyone assumes their traps get stolen. This may happen, but the tide will drag your trap hundreds of yards even with rebar. It's happened to me.
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dlwhite001
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/10/2012 : 7:56:53 PM
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I live on Daniel Island
It's a problem
Lost 4 mud minnow traps last year
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Firefighterj80
Intermediate Member
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Posted - 04/10/2012 : 8:04:38 PM
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| Optiker, I tie knots for a living, it wasn't dragged off by tides. It was wrapped around drain pipes, bridge boards, then tied with a clove hitch, that pot wasn't going anywhere. I can't believe some broke asses can't afford to buy their own. Although I guess why buy it when you can just steal from other people and get it for free. |
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FriedDOAShrimp
Intermediate Member
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Posted - 04/10/2012 : 8:11:22 PM
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| Do you work on Daniel island J80? |
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Firefighterj80
Intermediate Member
106 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2012 : 8:40:31 PM
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| No, I work for Mt. Pleasant |
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MattR
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/10/2012 : 10:37:36 PM
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Depending on the bridge it may have gotten wrapped up in a boat. I caught one under a bridge at low tide in the middle of the channel. It got all wrapped up in my outdrive on my bowrider. It took me an hour to cut the mess loose. I wish the guy would have had a buoy on it with his number. 
I always fear someone will take my pots but they are way up in the creeks where only other boaters go. No street lurkers. I often wonder what I would do though if I came up on someone pulling up my pot. I had 2 times the hatches were opened when I know they were tied tight.
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Firefighterj80
Intermediate Member
106 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2012 : 10:47:51 PM
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| Yeah, it couldn't have got caught up in a boat for two reasons. First, the creek I placed the pot in, rarely if ever has a boat go through, just too narrow. Secondly, there was a rope hanging down from the bridge to the water, so if a boat were to come up on it, they would see the rope hanging. I am 99% sure one of the "locals" I see fishing the pier decided to help themselves to a brand new crab pot. Hope they enjoy it the bastards |
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yakman72
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/11/2012 : 12:08:45 AM
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Sorry for your loss but the answer is simple. Don't leave it where those types if " locals" can get their hands on it..
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TyOneOn
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/11/2012 : 12:22:40 AM
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Originally posted by Firefighterj80
...I am 99% sure one of the "locals"...
Who are these "locals"? |
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FriedDOAShrimp
Intermediate Member
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Posted - 04/11/2012 : 07:05:16 AM
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| As a firefighter my self.... First of all, working for the largest department in the area and having worked for half of my career on ladder trucks I can say this with 100% certainty you don't tie knots for a living... you act as though you sit around all day and just tie knots, its only about 5% of our job. Secondly i am not a local as i was born and raised out of state, but be careful how you throw around your "terminology" cause what charlestonfishing giveth, charlestonfishing can most certainly taketh away, because these "locals" are quite helpful and will give you little tips pointers and sometimes even spots, but they will turn their back on you at the drop of a hat if your rude, so tread lightly my friend... |
Edited by - FriedDOAShrimp on 04/11/2012 07:09:23 AM |
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Lowcountryboy
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/11/2012 : 07:22:48 AM
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Those are not the kind of "Locals" he is talking about.
If you are going to try for bait around either of the bridges or the dock on Beresford Creek, you need to stay with your gear. It will walk away. |
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sshaarda
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/11/2012 : 07:52:40 AM
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Cainhoy peninsula
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on a fishin mission
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Posted - 04/11/2012 : 08:05:24 AM
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Did you have your the name and address, if not DNR may have taken it. Seen it happen a bunch.
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Hurricane701
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/11/2012 : 08:28:47 AM
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Just need a name and telephone number, no address
Bragging may not bring happiness,
but no man having caught a large fish,
goes home through the alley.
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jipride
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/11/2012 : 09:33:59 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by on a fishin mission
Did you have your the name and address, if not DNR may have taken it. Seen it happen a bunch.
"Those who have the ability to make a difference have the responsibility to do so." Thomas Jefferson
I was thinking the same thing.
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on a fishin mission
Senior Member
1422 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2012 : 09:47:58 AM
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From SCDNR
If unattended each pot float must bear the name and address or license number of owner.
http://www.dnr.sc.gov/regs/crabregs.html
"Those who have the ability to make a difference have the responsibility to do so." Thomas Jefferson |
Edited by - on a fishin mission on 04/11/2012 09:48:44 AM |
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Local Boy
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/11/2012 : 10:53:53 AM
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Tide took it, happens alot, take them out on the full moon tides
Local Boy, Just having fun. |
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Fred67
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/11/2012 : 12:47:56 PM
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Got a super good Crabber friend, You'd have to have a helper pull one of his traps out the water. He's does have one heck of a winch, that's slowed down a lot of his theft.
You can speculate a thousand scenarios, my guess some jack leg probably stole it. Sorry for your luck. Before buying another trap, hit up one of our local bait shops get a few crab baskets load em with some turkey necks of cheap thighs and spend a releasing day pulling them.
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LowcountrySalt
Intermediate Member
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Posted - 04/11/2012 : 3:13:06 PM
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had 2 disappear from Orange Grove Creek about a week and half ago... 1 still around though So I know DNR didnt take them. About 2 days after 10+ orange commercial buoys showed up. Weird.
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Firefighterj80
Intermediate Member
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Posted - 04/11/2012 : 10:41:54 PM
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| FriedDOA, I never said all I do is sit around and tie knots. But it is definitely part of my job. And we do train to stay proficient. Also, when I said, "locals", it's not my fault if you took that the wrong way, but there are definitely several people that seem to always be there. I hadn't thought about the DNR aspect of it, I had read online about having a buoy and your name/phone number on it, but didn't know if that was required if it is hanging from a bridge where boats don't travel. Oh well, I'll just look at this as a learning experience. |
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TyOneOn
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/12/2012 : 01:33:32 AM
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Originally posted by Firefighterj80
...Oh well, I'll just look at this as a learning experience.
What did you learn? |
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Chris
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/12/2012 : 10:45:05 AM
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If it's the bridge between St. Thomas Island and Daniel island near Blackbaud; your right. The locals got it. The docks near the boat landings are more secure and have many crabs.
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Firefighterj80
Intermediate Member
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Posted - 04/12/2012 : 5:22:40 PM
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| Tyoneon, I learned to not leave my items that I paid hard earned cash for, in a place where people can steal them because they don't feel like working to have anything of their own. And Chris, thanks, I'll give the docks you mentioned a try. |
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JIHUNTFISH1
Senior Member
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Posted - 04/12/2012 : 7:56:45 PM
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Call me crazy but I am pretty sure it is against the law to leave unattended items hanging from public bridges that pass over areas were boaters, kayakers etc can be untangled. I know you can use the drop nets that you lower and raise every 15 mins or so while you fish, but as far as tossing over a whole trap weighed down and left over night or aunatteneded for a period of time . . . ??? Seems a bit unsafe, I'd hate to be heading out gigging and roll into that rope. Any how its kinda of no brainer, unfortunatly in our society leaving personal belongings out in publlic for others to mess with has not been a good idea since the dawn of time.
If I had left my fishing rods overnight on my own dock "which I would have to be pretty drunk to forget" and they were stolen by a boater I would be pissed, however if I had them taken out of the back of my truck in walmarts parking lot, or if I decided one day to leave a rod at a public pier overnight to let my bait really soak and it was taken i would probably be to ashamed to even complain. Would think in the same terms for a crab trap.
I am sure you were thinking hey my trap will be safe hanging off this public bride, anyone who might happen upon it to fish or crab will surely leave it alone since all hunters and fishers look out for each others things and have a mutual respect. AFRAID NOT!! And then throw in the random folks just driving by. . Suprised this was the first time.
I have learned in this game "fish/hunting" that it is better for me, my wallet, temper, and others to just always do everything I can to make sure my things and strangeres dont cross paths.
" Rope hanging down so boaters can see it" ???
Not to mention, be glad all your info was not on it. If the wrong person happens to motor through texting and not see it, or comes through at night and god forbid it causes injury or damage to they boat, pretty sure with any half wit lawyer your crab pot would be the last thing you were concerned about them having.
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