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.
This, unfortunately, is not a new phenomenon.
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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I live on Daniel Island
It’s a problem
Lost 4 mud minnow traps last year
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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.
Do you work on Daniel island J80?
No, I work for Mt. Pleasant
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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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
Sorry for your loss but the answer is simple. Don’t leave it where those types if " locals" can get their hands on it…
There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the mud minnow.
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Originally posted by Firefighterj80…I am 99% sure one of the “locals”…
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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…
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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Did you have your the name and address, if not DNR may have taken it. Seen it happen a bunch.
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Just need a name and telephone number, no address
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Originally posted by on a fishin missionDid 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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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
Tide took it, happens alot, take them out on the full moon tides
Local Boy, Just having fun.
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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