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Brian, I'm just lucky that I saw the knife, and decided to check. Otherwise I would have been at the gas station pumping liquid dollar bills into a non-existent fuel tank, and wondering why my feet were getting wet and smelled like gas.

Wanted to put this out to everyone so they can take precautions. Had my boat in front of the house in SW Springfield, as we are preparing for a lake vacation. Sometime between last Saturday and this evening, someone stole the gas tank out of the boat. Not a little 5-gallon tank, the big 20-gallon tank. Cut the hoses and wires to the fuel gauge, but they left the batteries, trolling motor, rods, and tackle, and the fish finder, oh and their knife. I work from home, and have a view of the boat and never saw anything out of the ordinary during the last couple days, so it had to have been late at night. .

Thanks for the info guys. I went and picked up a couple lights. Cedar Ridge is where I was thinking about putting in, coming from Springfield, it seemed pretty easy to get to. Is there anywhere around there to get live bait? Or should we look for some on the way there? wutever... I wouldn't mind getting hold of a catfish or two while we are there. Really just looking to have a good time with the kiddo.

I'm new to the area, just moved to Springfield. I'm looking at trying out some night fishing on Stockton here in the next couple of weeks. Going to take my new step-son out, and would really like to get on a good bite, so he has a good time. Looking mainly for numbers, don't even have to be big ones. Any advice on where to look for them, what to use would be greatly appreciated.