Killie THIEF - Please Stop (Oceanport) - NJFishing.com Your Best Online Source for Fishing Information in New Jersey

Arbutis · #1 05-31-2014, 09:02 PM

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.

Billfish715 · #2 05-31-2014, 10:05 PM

You might have stumbled onto someone's turf but more than likely it's the local kids. It is in a nice neighborhood but it is a public park. We've had killies stolen from alongside our boat in a private dock/condo complex on Branchport Creek. I've had them stolen from shallow water on an island in the Shrewsbury that was only accessible by boat. The crabbers are out and about so no bulkhead is safe to leave anything. Why did you leave it there? Whoever is the thief does not read this board.......guaranteed.

arat · #3 05-31-2014, 10:17 PM

The guy is a total a hole but you should know better than to trust people when no one is looking. Many will screw you every time. This is just one more example of that.

Bass_Appeal · #4 05-31-2014, 10:33 PM

My uncle has his boat moored at a local marina and left his net in the pole holder , well one morning he went down to go out fishing , no net on the boat ! Thinking someone stole it , bought a new one. Went down the next morning and the old net was there ! Wtf ....he said something to the owner of the marina and a guy actually left a not saying he borrowed the net off so and so's boat ....that so and so happened to be my uncle ....the balls of people , he didnt even know my uncle went onto his boat took his net and used it like it was no big deal !!

kmaty · #5 05-31-2014, 10:55 PM

Funny was there last night at a last ditch effort to get some candies there was nobody around the baseball feild area didn't see nor would i care for your killies...i will def keep my eye out tho as im in the area...somany better spots and what do you think would happen in a public area?!

shrimpman steve · #6 05-31-2014, 11:05 PM

People are dbags

Arbutis · #7 05-31-2014, 11:54 PM

Yeah you can blame me for putting it there in the first place. I blame myself for that too. I don't live on the water and this is literally a block from my house so there isn't a better, more convenient spot that this.

I like to believe in the best of people (until proven wrong). Do they make bait buckets with combination locks?

I don't know what else to do other than go buy a new trap and start all over again. It just sucks that I have to inconvenience myself and think up ways to make my bucket "thief proof" because of the actions of a couple dim wits.

And another thing (while I'm in the complaining mood) - If you're going to post on these threads, try to use correct punctuation so that the things you write actually make sense when other people read them. Sheesh. It's like reading notes from a first grader sometimes.

Ok. I'm done. Sorry. Just venting. Still pissed!

Deepdeckhand · #8 06-01-2014, 10:50 AM

I too have had the problem of stolen traps...No more! What I do is set traps with no floats.Put it in a easy place to snag with bunker snagger and surf rod( like 3 ft off corner of dock). If they don't see it they won't steal it.I believe they make sinking mesh Killy cars too..Just sad it has to be this way...

njflyfisher · #9 06-01-2014, 11:08 AM

damn that sucks. Well anyways what bait do you use for your killies.

frugalfisherman · #10 06-01-2014, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Deepdeckhand

I too have had the problem of stolen traps...No more! What I do is set traps with no floats.Put it in a easy place to snag with bunker snagger and surf rod( like 3 ft off corner of dock). If they don't see it they won't steal it.I believe they make sinking mesh Killy cars too..Just sad it has to be this way...

You are right. You have to be stealth. If you have to tie it use some mono attached under the dock. You have to out smart them.