walking out of the water at the east end....guy started tlaking to me asking if i had got anything becuase he "killed it" by the bridge and thought that they would be heading to the east end.....around the corner across from the power plant he headed down to the rocks and then yelled over to this guy "is this your buddys bag?". Guy replied it was but the kid snaged it and took off to the parking lot.....owner of the bag came back riding his bike and the guy told him what happened and the owner of the bag tried to chase him down but the kid was already out of the lot

the kid had black hair (short-sish), camouflage jacket (army canvas material, jeans, and white sneakers....he was smoking a parlamount cig i think......

what a scum bag

Gotta watch your stuff!!!:uhuh:

Thanks for trying to flag him down. It was my bag, I had moved west about 5 poles and was talking to a friend for about 5 minutes before realized i'd left my bag...crappy ending to what was otherwise a very nice morning. got a bunch of my home made stuff but I guess thats better than a bag of stuff I paid for....

ya i was the kid you talked to in the lot......the guy on the rocks tried to stop him, and told him it was his buddys bag even though i dont think he knows you.....maybe someone on here knows that punk

who wears army canvas anyway?

Thanks for trying to flag him down. It was my bag, I had moved west about 5 poles and was talking to a friend for about 5 minutes before realized i'd left my bag...crappy ending to what was otherwise a very nice morning. got a bunch of my home made stuff but I guess thats better than a bag of stuff I paid for....


Dude - sorry to hear this - anything we can do / keep an eye out for?

Which lot did he run to, the pier lot?

I was in that area as well. Don't remember seeing the punk in question, but I'll keep an eye out.

Buddy of mine had his bike stolen out of the campground last week. I hate fricken scumbag thieves.

Nope, nothing noteworthy mostly just some pencils and spooks I built in various colors but I have plenty of others so no worries there... Just kind of a downer on what had been a very good morning for me (weather aside).

scussett beach lot by the rv's

I would have beat the kid and probally went to jail... "nobody better lay a finger on my fishing tackle"

Liars and theives can't stand them.

DJ because they're all home made making the ID if he tries to sell them makes it all that much easier if others know what to look for.
Sorry that happened to ya man!

Dave - holy chit, you didn't tell me your plug bag got stolen when we chatted earlier, that's bull$hit!!

I'm keepin an eye out for it Dave. Seems word spread around because I heard lots of chatter about it throughout the day. Good fishing with you today -Randy

take it from randy, tackle is a hot item these days, got a stick shad ripped off his roof couple weeks ago. Nice meetin you guys today, too bad that happened; who does that?:fury:

that's bull$hit!!

i believe those were my exact words when dave told me today

All fishermen on the canal should start carrying. Society is much more polite that way.

sorry to hear about your plugbag Dave
that sucks :(

I hope it gets returned

I'd bait him (plug bag or something out in the open) and be ready to set the hook

That suks! I'll keep an eye out. If I see him, I'll poke an eye out!

All fishermen on the canal should start carrying. Society is much more polite that way.

I agree with that. Unfortunately the feds and army corp do not.

Sorry to hear that, Dave. People suck. I hope that skinny mack pattern plug wasn't in the bag. That thing had some serious mojo.

Sorry to hear this, if this scumbag keeps stealing from fishermen it will catch up to him eventually

didnt see him today but i was only there for an hour or so before work....if he was there on a monday morning i have a feeling he could show up again

Great idea, let's arm every freaking Yahoo who comes down to the Canal on a "breaking" tide. Guys will be OK Corralling over crossed lines and lost fish. :doh: :wall:

It's a #^&#^&#^&#^&ing zoo down there already, and you guys want to add guns to the mix?

I know a lot of old regulars who won't fish there on these tides, no matter how hot the bite it. And, I've joined them. This is supposed to be fun. I guess if a fuster-cluck is your idea of fun, go for it. Me, I have other things I'd rather do. If I want to get frustrated, I can try to build a #^&#^&#^&#^&ing ship in a bottle.

didnt see him today but i was only there for an hour or so before work....if he was there on a monday morning i have a feeling he could show up again

describe this s h i t age, height, hair color, complexion ect.

I don't think it's an isolated thing. I had some guy try to sell me a couple of custom Rainshadow 1209 rods for 75 bucks apiece. he had a few in the back of his station wagon.I let the shops know to spread the word around as I'm bettin they're hot.I build custom rods. can't get the hardware for that cheap.Sad part with the plug bag as there are a few that were in Iraq that wear camo that are good people that will now be eyeballed cause of this dirt bag.Ron

well - the pen would be mightier than the sword here.
to catch the creeps communication between fisherman is key
how that can be accomplished is the task at hand...

I don't think it's an isolated thing. I had some guy try to sell me a couple of custom Rainshadow 1209 rods for 75 bucks apiece. he had a few in the back of his station wagon.I let the shops know to spread the word around as I'm bettin they're hot.I build custom rods. can't get the hardware for that cheap.Sad part with the plug bag as there are a few that were in Iraq that wear camo that are good people that will now be eyeballed cause of this dirt bag.Ron

It's not isolated. There are hundreds of pill and heroin addicted kids just in the two little towns along the Canal. Hundreds more down-Cape, and thousands all the way up the South Shore. I've been saying for years that once the local druggies realize that guys pay $50+ for custom wood, and are fishing with $1000 reels, there'd be an epidemic of thefts of fishing gear.

i always see those people with carts and bikes all riged up down there and thought about setting one up, bad back limits me from walking too far, but worried that someone would hop on and ride off as i'm on the rocks.. i wouldnt trust leaving it up there , my fat ass couldnt chase down anyone and too cute to go to jail for shooting a junkie... if it wasnt for the cameras i may take the chance! hope someone get him for ya!

i hear ya


It's not isolated. There are hundreds of pill and heroin addicted kids just in the two little towns along the Canal. Hundreds more down-Cape, and thousands all the way up the South Shore. I've been saying for years that once the local druggies realize that guys pay $50+ for custom wood, and are fishing with $1000 reels, there'd be an epidemic of thefts of fishing gear.

and your prediction has come true

There is talk on another popular Striper fishing site, that there have been a couple of plug bags found. This may or may not be yours, but it might be worth the effort to check it out, in case this "kid" took what he wanted & left your bag behind?
Check out the "Massachusetts" section.

There is talk on another popular Striper fishing site, that there have been a couple of plug bags found. This may or may not be yours, but it might be worth the effort to check it out, in case this "kid" took what he wanted & left your bag behind?
Check out the "Massachusetts" section.

yea ,, I read that too ..."Tackle Bag Found " thread ..

There is talk on another popular Striper fishing site, that there have been a couple of plug bags found. This may or may not be yours, but it might be worth the effort to check it out, in case this "kid" took what he wanted & left your bag behind?
Check out the "Massachusetts" section.

By the way, we don't pretend that we're the only internet striped bass site on this website--it's OK to say it's on SOL. ;)

By the way, we don't pretend that we're the only internet striped bass site on this website--it's OK to say it's on SOL. ;)

He's obviously used to playing by 'other site' rules :smash: :uhuh:

He's obviously used to playing by 'other site' rules :smash: :uhuh:

which suck....

Two years ago Matt and I were tooling along at the bottom of one hundred steps and Matt saw a large plug bag left on the rocks. He walked out and retrieved it. For the next half mile the conversation centered around how hard it might be to find the owner of the bag, and that we hoped we could. Just then this guy comes at us going as far as he could peddle, because he had left his bag where we found it. He saw the bag in Matt's basket. Took it out of the basket and muttered something, very muted and I dont think it was a thank you, and took off back to the parking area. He was still there when we got back to our vehicles when I overheard him say, "yah, maybe I should have thrown them a plug", to his two buddies. My understanding of how he said it was that we looked like a pair of googans, and he'd be doing us a favor. He wasn't very appreciative of our endeavours, but at least we didn't have to search long for the owner. Someone going the opposite direction could have picked it up, rode off, and never looked back.

So guys do forget bags. I don't know how this guy forgot such a large size bag that was full, but he did. Hopefully, what everyone surmises here isn't true and the kid who picked it up thinks he was doing the right thing, and is looking for the owner.

this kid was wearing a canvas style army jacket in the rain...somehting you would buy at an army navy store.....not something you would get while in service......

In the world of canal anglers there are 2 types of people: anglers and non-anglers. Of the non-anglers there are 2 types: good, honest people and scumbags.

Unfortunately there are way too many scumbags willing to releive you of your gear than there are good honest people willing to track you down to return it.

If the bag was found by a fisherman, odds are the owner would have gotten it back the same day. (who here hasn't lost an item and had it returned?)

As for the scumbag? He needs his fix regardless of who he has to beg, borrow or steal from to get it!

The other unfortunate aspect of this event is that even if the POS is found and arrested, the bag will probably be gone for good and some other POS will step up to fill the void.
To paraphrase Classy Freddy Blasse' "These losers seem to be a dime a dozen, and I'd like to stop the person supplying the dimes!!!!"