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Susan and I were running back from Fishermans bay towards pea vine pass when I saw a crab pot buoy just above water and about to be sucked down on a raising tide. This was on a Sunday when the crabbing is closed. We slowed down and took a look at the pot which was very new looking and not a old lost pot. As required by law that name address and phone # of the owner was on the float So I call the guy to tell him where his pot was.
Now a lot of people claim that their pot was stolen when in reality they just set it in too deep of water on a low tide or in a area with high current and not enough weight in the pot and it gets dragged off. Another mistake is not enough weight OR too much float. It does no good to have a hundred lbs pot and a float that will lift 110 lbs..... but it happens.
In this case the pot, along with another, was stolen and later dumped. The owner had set the pots near bellingham. One was found two miles away floating in deep water. The one I recovered was found 8 miles away, west of Blakely. Now if you know the area you know that there is no way in hell, let alone the ocean, that the current took that pot there and left the lid open. Some people are just thieves and should be shoot.
If they are going to steal the crab thats one thing and bad enough, but to just toss the pot out and cause a hazard to boaters and wildlife is the work of the lowest scum. I just had the owners wife come by work and pick up the pot from me. Its was a large steel and wire pot with 100ft of line and new floats, $120???
maybe a small explosive device that activates above 10 ft of water and needs to be deactivated by code?? they would only steal it once. :twisted:
Now a lot of people claim that their pot was stolen when in reality they just set it in too deep of water on a low tide or in a area with high current and not enough weight in the pot and it gets dragged off. Another mistake is not enough weight OR too much float. It does no good to have a hundred lbs pot and a float that will lift 110 lbs..... but it happens.
In this case the pot, along with another, was stolen and later dumped. The owner had set the pots near bellingham. One was found two miles away floating in deep water. The one I recovered was found 8 miles away, west of Blakely. Now if you know the area you know that there is no way in hell, let alone the ocean, that the current took that pot there and left the lid open. Some people are just thieves and should be shoot.
If they are going to steal the crab thats one thing and bad enough, but to just toss the pot out and cause a hazard to boaters and wildlife is the work of the lowest scum. I just had the owners wife come by work and pick up the pot from me. Its was a large steel and wire pot with 100ft of line and new floats, $120???
maybe a small explosive device that activates above 10 ft of water and needs to be deactivated by code?? they would only steal it once. :twisted: