When you stay somewhere

Overnight..Do you take you fish finders off...lock them..or just leave them on,and hope...what type locking system do you use

I take everything out of the boat that I can and cover the boat. Electronics come inside with me. Trolling motor locked with a tamper proof pad lock. Rod's locked in rod lockers or locked in the truck. Tackle boxes locked in rod lockers or in truck.

What he said and more, Plus- you don't sleep good!

I have a E-Lock on my big fish finder. https://www.amazon.com/DuraSafe-E-Lo...eywords=e-lock

Now days it makes me nervous to leave my stuff in the boat at my house. I take my fish finders off everytime I pull the boat out of the water. I dont have anything fancy or expensive but none the less its alot of sticky fingered folks out there. If i had to leave my boat in hotel parking lot over nite I wouldnt sleep a wink. I know grenada was bad for a while I havent heard of it much lately but there was a bunch of kid taking stuff out of boats when the tournaments come to town. I hate a thief!!

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I take everything out of the boat that I can and cover the boat. Electronics come inside with me. Trolling motor locked with a tamper proof pad lock. Rod's locked in rod lockers or locked in the truck. Tackle boxes locked in rod lockers or in truck.

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Where do you get that tamper proof pad lock. Got a tamper proof lockon my truck tow bar but it's just a straight piece with the key in the end. Haven't seen the pad lock, sure would like to lock my trolling motor.

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Where do you get that tamper proof pad lock. Got a tamper proof lockon my truck tow bar but it's just a straight piece with the key in the end. Haven't seen the pad lock, sure would like to lock my trolling motor.

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Thanks

Has anyone had any trouble getting anything stolen at the COE campgrounds at Grenada or Enid?

Never had a problem at the COE campgrounds at Grenada or Enid. I did have a couple of line counter reels stolen out of my boat at Sardis COE campground though.

Take poles and fish finder and put them in my room.The rest of my stuff I have locked in compartments on my boat

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Have camped in the State Parks at Grenada and Enid for over 40 years..have never heard of anything being stolen. . I'm sure there could be anytime..I would worry more about what is left in a truck on the ramps

Sad state of our country the question even has to be asked.

I completely dissemble my pontoon and carry it in the room and reassemble whole boat next morning! Then we have to sleep in the truck because there is not enough room for us. LOL.


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i take everything out I can. Had a couple rods stolen 2 years ago at motel in Grenada. About a month later at a different motel in Grenada, I set one of the large rat traps in one of the storage bins in my boat and left it unlocked and caught the guy red handed. It broke 3 of his fingers and it cost him about 1200 bucks and a night in jail.

While working as a temp at Enid we had things stolen from time to time but only the years they drove off with several vaults ( camping and day use ) was it really bad . Yes they were finally caught . lol :popcorn

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Never had a problem at the COE campgrounds at Grenada or Enid. I did have a couple of line counter reels stolen out of my boat at Sardis COE campground though.

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Ok, Ok. You can pick em up at the house when you come back. [emoji30]

Danged cry baby. [emoji24][emoji24][emoji24][emoji24]

Ever since that bass fisherman was robbed and killed I would take everything to my room and stay armed while I'm doing it

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i take everything out I can. Had a couple rods stolen 2 years ago at motel in Grenada. About a month later at a different motel in Grenada, I set one of the large rat traps in one of the storage bins in my boat and left it unlocked and caught the guy red handed. It broke 3 of his fingers and it cost him about 1200 bucks and a night in jail.

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That is a great idea never thought about that

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That is a great idea never thought about that

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Have to be careful setting traps. There was a case sometime ago where a guy got robbed so much he booby trapped a shotgun and nearly killed the thief. He was charged and convicted of attempted man slaughter or some such stupidity.
If I had been on the jury he would have goiten a medal. But there are laws that protect the guilty so be careful.
What I considered doing was getting one of the motion detectors and put the sensor in the back window of my SUV and the receiver in my hotel room.They work pretty good but you might have some false alarms when someone walked by.

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Has anyone had any trouble getting anything stolen at the COE campgrounds at Grenada or Enid?

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Someone stole my tackle box and cooler out of my boat at Enid while it was parked at my camp site and I was in bed. The campground host told me there has been several satellite dishes stolen as well.

Trypman's truck got keyed at the ramp at Enid last year.

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Have to be careful setting traps. There was a case sometime ago where a guy got robbed so much he booby trapped a shotgun and nearly killed the thief. He was charged and convicted of attempted man slaughter or some such stupidity.
If I had been on the jury he would have goiten a medal. But there are laws that protect the guilty so be careful.
What I considered doing was getting one of the motion detectors and put the sensor in the back window of my SUV and the receiver in my hotel room.They work pretty good but you might have some false alarms when someone walked by.

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My brother had a very nice Camero back in the '70's with a great stereo system in it. Someone busted out his side window one night and stole the stereo. We replaced it with the same unit he had only this time, we super glued razor blades to the bottom rear of the head unit. A few months later, someone broke out his side window again but this time they didn't get the stereo. There was a bunch of blood all over the inside of his car though.:biggrin

Pay back can be hell.

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Have to be careful setting traps. There was a case sometime ago where a guy got robbed so much he booby trapped a shotgun and nearly killed the thief. He was charged and convicted of attempted man slaughter or some such stupidity.
If I had been on the jury he would have goiten a medal. But there are laws that protect the guilty so be careful.
What I considered doing was getting one of the motion detectors and put the sensor in the back window of my SUV and the receiver in my hotel room.They work pretty good but you might have some false alarms when someone walked by.

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This is true. As far as I have been told, it is illegal to set any trap that could cause any sort of physical harm. It's like people who carry wasp spray instead of mace. A lady just lost a huge lawsuit against her when the attacker that she sprayed sued her for intentional poisoning. Not that I agree with any of what I have said, but sadly this is the world we live in.

I also take everything out of the boat. I lost all of my tackle and electronics to a thief last year.


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