Thieves at Theodosia Marina Multiple thefts

[Fish24/7]

 Multiple boats were broken into recently. A camera placed at the entrance to the marina resort would be sufficient enough  to see anyone coming in or leaving by vehicles .  Relying  on a dock  camera to get images of boats in the cove or people on the dock  is useless, and Jmho.  

I've had stuff stolen when my boat was there for a while. 

 

If you have a fishing boat there,  better go check it.

 

[Fish24/7]

Just now, Fish24/7 said:

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[mixermarkb]

I won't comment much on these latest TMR thefts, other than to give my condolences to the guys who lost all their gear. Opening up a rod locker to nothing but carpet sucks bad.

After getting hit twice like 15 or 20 years ago, once on the dock, and once in the covered storage on the hill, I just stopped leaving anything I want to keep in a boat overnight.

This pretty much led me to dropping my boat in and out each day and not renting even nightly slips. Thieves can still get me at the hotel, so I still take gear in and out, but it's easier to secure my stuff when my boat is parked just outside the room vs. at a seasonal business during the "off" season. 

I also believe that the lake areas in general, and the Missouri side of Bull Shoals specifically, have suffered a lack of quality LE since the highway patrol/water patrol merger. The old water patrol officer, Mike Cochran, was able to recover some of my stolen gear once, and kept a solid eye out for thieves in the area. I just don't feel like we have the same level of local LE presence from the highway patrol troopers. Don't get me wrong, they do their best, but they seem to be stretched too way thin in the ozarks, IMHO. 

I hope they find the stolen gear, but with the combination of Meth and EBay, I just don't trust leaving my hard to replace stuff anywhere, be it Theodosia Marina, Branson, Lake of the Ozarks, or my own driveway in the burbs of St. Louis. 

It's not a specific TMR problem, it's a every darn place all the time problem.

I have been blessed with an abundance of fishing crap, some would (probably rightly) say that I'm a hoarder with a sickness. I realized years ago though, that this stuff is a LOT harder to replace now that I'm a husband and a father.

So, I leave stuff I'm not likely to use at home.

I load up for seasonal patterns, travel as light as my aforementioned mental illness will let me, (think 6 to 8 combos vs maybe 30) and I unload the boat after each day. 

Bonus is, I think it's made me a better fisherman, increased my organization, and made me pre-plan my trips better.

I've had it bite me in the butt a couple times, when patterns were changing fast in the spring and I was all stocked up with warts and jerkbaits and didn't have the spook box I probably needed, but it's been at least 15 years since I've had to go buy all new crap.

Sadly, I think we all just are living in a world where we have to assume that thieves will find a way to theif, and $500 to $1000 combos, $1500-3000 graphs, and tackle boxes full of $25-30 baits are just too easy of a target to be ignored anymore. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

Unpack the boat every night.  They can still take the ultrex. That would hurt the most.  

[Gavin]

Don't leave anything you want unattended...Anywhere! It will disappear.

 

[mixermarkb]

14 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Unpack the boat every night.  They can still take the ultrex. That would hurt the most.  

Any way to lock the ultrex? Change out the hardware to something with a security bit maybe? I mean, a theif that would take a troller is committed, but still- that's a lot of money sitting up there...

[Gavin]

Around town they just check your locks, if open they grab what they can quickly and move on to your neighbors.

[Mitch f]

I’d love to catch a meth head stealing from me. I’d probably be in jail the next day

[Fish24/7]

Previous Post here deleted.  Not because I wanted to. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

6 hours ago, mixermarkb said:

Any way to lock the ultrex? Change out the hardware to something with a security bit maybe? I mean, a theif that would take a troller is committed, but still- that's a lot of money sitting up there...

I've been looking into that recently.  Hand held drill and it's gone in a couple minutes.  My summer place at Table Rock has cameras but in the winter trout fishing it sits in a parking lot a lot of the time.