Marker buoy disappearance?

Has anybody had their marker buoys stolen on a lake while they were fishing a short time away from it:confused:. This is the 3rd. time this has happen to meDoh. The first time it had no identification on it..........the second time, I had written "Black Lund" on it. Well duh, what part of that do you not understand:mad:? Now the 3rd time this (last weekend) it also had "Black Lund" on it and I only left it for about an hour and only saw one boat go through that area. This makes no sense to me. What makes someone stop and pick up something that doesn't belong to them? I guess I am from the "old school" and if it's not mine, I leave it alone. That applies to alot of things. Just seems to make life alot simpler.

You're right Chuck. Makes life simple that's for sure. Sorry some one would steal your stuff.

One time at Lake Hickory (at least I think it was Hickory), I had marked the outer edge of a brush pile with a bright orange marker bouy. As I fished the unfamiliar brush, I found out that there was quite a few brushpiles right in a line. While working the brush, I found myself about 20 yards from the bouy. A guy in a 40 something thousand dollar bass boat just came idling by and picked up my bouy (like he couldn't afford one). I think part of his thinking was that there was no way I could catch him in my 15' jon. His arrogance really got me mad. I looked for him for a long time but never found him.

sorry to hear that mr. haley i'm like u if it's yours leave it alone !!!!:mad: Doh

get his reg##### and turn him in

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Originally Posted by Big Crappie 2

get his reg##### and turn him in

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I didn't see him do it or think he might have done it just because he went in the area. Believe me I would have confronted him if I knew it was him. I just don't understand the "mind set" in this kind of thing. It's not about the loss of the buoy. It's about what goes on in someones mind to make them think they should pick something up like this, just because they saw it.

guys i to have had them taken best thing to do is pick them up when you move or get use to buying more.

had it happen to me now I paint mine black so its harder to see

Maybe we should start using 20oz. plastic bottles with a string and weight tied to it because lord knows they wouldn't go out of their way to pick up a piece of trash:mad:

i feel you chuck. it's like WHY? if someone can afford gas, bait , tackle, etc. then they can afford an eight dollar marker buoy. it's got to be that they just truly enjoy stealing. to be honest, it would be worth him taking it if i could catch him doing it. keep 'dem mallets ready to throw!!

Haven't had one stolen but I did have one out at Harris last year. We were fishing within 20 yards of it doing fairly well. This older bass boat coming idling along with 3 guys that looked to(and acted like they were) very intoxicated bragging about taking 300 crappie out of there for the second time in 3 days. They ran right over my bouy!!! Then just gagged it and took off. Luckily, the buoy was not hurt. Stupidity just amazes me. Sorry that you got yours stolen.

Jason

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Originally Posted by good stuff

maybe we should start using 20oz. Plastic bottles with a string and weight tied to it because lord knows they wouldn't go out of their way to pick up a piece of trash:mad:

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amen!!!!

Im not trying to be smart by no means but why would you leave it ? I would be scared it would end up wrapped up in someones prop or stolen. Or worse someone would know what you were fishing! ;)

Have not ever had one stolen, but have left a few behind forgetting to get it up, and that hurts also. I would be very ill also if I knew or saw someone take it. Now a days I make my own so if I do forget again or if someonr would have enough stupidity to steal one I am really only out of a block of wood and some string.

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Originally Posted by Good Stuff

Maybe we should start using 20oz. plastic bottles with a string and weight tied to it because lord knows they wouldn't go out of their way to pick up a piece of trash:mad:

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Now that's a good idea.

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Originally Posted by Good Stuff

Maybe we should start using 20oz. plastic bottles with a string and weight tied to it because lord knows they wouldn't go out of their way to pick up a piece of trash:mad:

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Exactly!

I really think they don't see it as stealing,they see something,they want it,they take it,I think they would be really surprised if you told the lowlife that whatever they were picking up belonged to someone else.I was setting some limb lines one evening for catfish,backtracked to check my lines and some nitwit was coming along behind me taking the hooks off.I asked him why he was cutting the hooks off my lines and he actually looked surprised that they belonged to someone else...How can you explain something to someone like that?

Jerry Lohr of "Lohrs Lures" used to market a mini buoy. They are only about 1/4th the size of a regular sized flat style marker buoy. He offered them in Blaze orange and OD green. Even the Blaze orange mini buoy is hard to spot unless you know where to look. I have used the above mentioned idea of using a pop bottle bottle or a piece of drift wood to mark structure or areas I have baited for "Bugle Mouth Bass". The trash buoys have never been tampered with, Knock on wood.

I painted mine army drab green one time. I couldn't even find one of them and I had just threw it out.

I have lost 'em... I have left 'em... I have had 'em stolen too. I have even put 'em out and had other boats come from
other areas within eyesight and start fishing along and around my buoys after seeing me catch fish while I am right there and
have the nerve to ask me how I am rigged and how deep I am fishing so they could help me catch the fish that I marked...
and not think one thing about it either.

You won't never be able to understand some people and how their minds work. I promise you that.

I had a friend who got one wrapped up in his prop and had to put new seals in. If he sees one and no one is around it he winds them up and throws them away

I have lost a few buoy markers too. Untill I wrote on them Warrnimg unlawful to remove. I have not had one stolen sense

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Originally Posted by Chuck Haley

Now that's a good idea.

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We did this on the james river in va when i would help some of the guides out. They would mark their spots they wanted me to take their "over flow" clients with a mountain dew bottle only. haha

I write my boat id and contact info on the back of my buoys and most of the time the date. I feel the date is useful for ppl to know if they are active or lost/abandoned and just littering up the lake. IDK about around your area but i know a lot of ppl leave/lose/forget lots of cheep buoys and soda bottles on the lake. i normally leave buoys even if they got slime and algae growing on them, but i have been know to pick up pop bottles that look like they been out there a while just to get them out of the water.

thats crazy tho that ppl would steal them. Is it just kids stealing/moving them to mess with you or are they actually a hot commodity?