Marker buoy disappearance?

**NC_Crappiecatcher75** · 09-27-2011, 07:47 PM

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

**NC_Crappiecatcher75** · 09-27-2011, 07:50 PM

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

amen!!!!

**crash14me2** · 09-27-2011, 07:50 PM

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!

**spotrunnin** · 09-27-2011, 07:56 PM

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.

**Chuck Haley** · 09-27-2011, 08:12 PM

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

Now that's a good idea.

**crataegus** · 09-27-2011, 09:30 PM

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

Exactly!

**HillBilly** · 09-27-2011, 10:34 PM

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?

**Kellog** · 09-27-2011, 11:49 PM

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.

**poppop** · 09-28-2011, 06:03 AM

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

**Special K** · 09-28-2011, 07:58 AM

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.

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