I live in Oceanport and launch my boat at Blackberry Park. This has happened several times now so I thought I would just throw a post up - for what it's worth.
I work hard during the week and I put a killie trap out EVERY day and put the killies I catch into a yellow bait bucket as a holding tank. This week I finally accumulated a nice number of large killies so that I could take my kids out Saturday morning for fluke fishing in the river.
Every day I check the trap, cull out the little ones, save the big ones in the holding bucket, re-bait, feed the killies in the bucket.
This morning - around 8:30am I was all set to go out with the kids and as I launch my boat I check the trap and the bucket - - - it was pulled by someone and completely emptied! The bucket and trap were left empty on the bulkhead out of the water.
Sometimes kids will pull the trap here and play around with it - but I had re-baited this last night and found it emptied early this morning. No kids were out this early. I was FURIOUS
! Not only about the stolen bait and the time it took me all week to gather the nice big killies I like to use - but for the disappointment in my kids who were looking forward to some fishing with dad on the weekend.
To make it even worse, I re-baited the trap and put it out to start all over again. When I went to check it a few hours later it was GONE completely. WTF?
Whoever this A-hole is, I hope you read this post and feel like $hit. Stay away from other people's bait buckets! If it's not yours, have some respect and leave it alone.
