Guys, sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings, but this guy didn't do the responsible thing. Hopefully others will see this and learn to secure their stuff better. You just can't leave stuff in a boat on Lake Fork. I hate a thief as much as anyone, but this is 2014, boys.

Shut up no one cares. It's not ur fault if ur stuff gets jacked. You can always do something to prevent theft but it's never your fault or self inflected if someone decides to take your stuff

LOL

I love it when I hear about someone introducing a thief to their friends Smith and Wesson.

best method right here, I use the same to id my stuff.

sorry he got ripped off but truth is with no way to id them they are gone, no way am I going up to anyone and asking to look at a rod/reel because i think it is stolen unless there is some positive way to id it. good way to get you butt in a huge bind.

hard lesson to learn but I take EVERYTHING out of my boat if in a motel, don't lock a thing up either so they won't tear it up trying to see nothing.

That's pretty funny, considering you hail from Huntsville. I guess proximity to a LOT of criminals does provide some subject matter expertise on the matter.

I'm definitely not trying to kick the guy while he's down, because that's a LOT of money in rods and reels gone. But when are people going to learn that anything that isn't bolted to the ground can and will be stolen around Fork. ESPECIALLY fishing gear. It its out of sight, it's potential theft material. Take EVERYTHING you can inside and if you don't. . .well you really shouldn't be all that shocked when you find that it's gone.

Yes it sucks and its wrong but it IS the way it is. Desperate people do desperate things.

Really...

I don't leave anything on the boat. Period. Yeah, it's a hassle to take six rods, two tackle boxes and three worms boxes out every time but there people on Conroe who will steal your American flag off of your dock so climbing into my boat would be nothing...that is until they heard the hammer clip back on my Sig.

Somebody needs to come up with a way to electrify those rods while they are in the boat.. One touch and zaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap

But when you check out of your room and drive to the boat ramp to go fishing, they will be waiting for you!

I absolutely hate having to haul everything into a motel room especially when you have been on the lake all day and you are on the third floor and the stairs are at one end and you are in the middle. It is easy to say "I think everything is safe" but the day on the lake tomorrow is no fun with the cane pole.

If you leave something where it can be easily stolen, it's really your fault. Sorry but that's just the world we live in these days.