queensland hinze eastern arm 25/6/23

[rayke1938]

Long story. We have been missing quite a few pots from the western arm and a couple of weeks ago I was looking at another site and someone put up a post pulling one of my distinctive rectangular aluminium frame pots as well as some other distinctive round pots. I did nothing but another forum member recognised one of his pots and called him out plus reporting to fisheries and rangers. A. L got quite agro and claimed that they were his pots. Last week I got a pm telling me that some of my pots were in the eastern arm so today I went searching and found one of my pots and one of Neils with A.L s name and address on the floats. They were in only 2 feet of clear water and I could clearly see both of them. Neils name is burnt into the plastic end of the pot and mine still had a sticker with my name and address on the lead weight. There are at least another 12 pots missing so we will keep out eyes open.

After spending a few hours unsuccessfully looking around to see if I could finds any more pots I then had a bit of a fish ending up with 39 bass so a good day.

Hats off to one of the admins of the Hinze Dam fishing club site for his assistance. I even caught one of his tagged fish today.

Cheers Ray

Edited June 25, 2023 by rayke1938

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Good work Ray, hope you can find all the pots the grub stole.

[Angry51]

Yeah, it's like those grubs that check crab pots that aren't theirs.

Needs to be some big deterrent for them , they really get up my nose.

[Bretto77]

1 hour ago, Angry51 said:

Needs to be some big deterrent for them , they really get up my nose.

When I was a kid and trying with a few pots,(particularly in the endeavour river and tributaries), you didn't touch anyone else's pots. 1. You were likely to get shot. 2. There was still honesty and common decency, (possibly because you might be shot)....

[rayke1938]

the guy has his own site and brand of waterproof clothing he has a lot to lose if he gets done apart from just being a thief. ****lyfe.