Guys! Awesome story for you...

Around Thanksgiving (2 months ago) I just purchased my first bass boat. About 2 weeks later, someone broke into it and stole EVERYTHING except the motor and trolling motor. Thankfully I had a good insurance policy with high limits so I was able to get back about $5,000 of the $7500 worth of goods that were stolen, however as us fishermen know, it was a real pain to repurchase everything and organize all that gear that took me years to accumulate! So I thought it was a done deal and just moved on and now flipping ahead to yesterday... I get a phone call!

"Hi Brent this is the Manager over at #%& Storage Place, there's some guy out in front of his storage unit selling a TON of fishing gear, his unit is pretty close to where your boat was stored, do you want to come take a look and see if any of it is yours?!" I said heck yes!

I hightailed over to the unit and the guy was already gone but the manager got access into the unit and sure enough, 6 of my rod/reels, 4 of my Plano 3700 boxes full of crankbaits, topwater, jigs, spinnerbaits, swimbaits, etc. and an array of miscellaneous items that were stolen. My quick calculation was that about 3/5 of the stuff was gone but at least there were still some items remaining. I also saw well over 80-90 Plano Boxes stacked high of most likely other stolen goods! This guy must be a 'professional fisherman thief!'

So what did we do? Well if I was in Texas you know damn well it would've been on. But out here in California I took the more 'politically correct' route lol. The police were called immediately and we went through the run around with them and now today a detective was brought in and even better... I found a Craigslist post of this scumbag selling all my gear! "Freshwater Fishing Gear, Tons of Stuff, Too much to list, starting at $10, etc. CALL Only!" So I called and played dumb and he quickly identified a few of my items and even mentioned the Rod Sox that I have on the rods and I knew it was him.

Well right now the Detectives are 'setting up a buy' in hopes of luring this scumbag over to sell their undercover detective some of the stolen goods. So I'm ANXIOUSLY waiting right now. It feels like the 4'th quarter with 5 seconds on the clock, with a timeout, and I'm about to go kick a game winning field goal...

End the story for me... what do you think will happen? Thanks for reading and I will post a follow-up as soon as I hopefully get most of my gear back and see this guy goes to jail! Thank You Lord!

That is awesome. Way to handle it the correct way with out getting your hands dirty. I really hope they pin his azz to the wall with charges to the fullest. Can't wait to hear the outcome.

Keep us informed. I'm interested in what this guys story is.

well, hopefully this guy doesnt have a computer and follow this site.........

This guy will go to jail, and If you play your cards right you will come out ahead. since insurance already paid you, the equipment that will be consficated will be thiers, you can buy that equipment from the insurance company for .20 on the dollar normally.

This is not a Texas event. I'm way out in California. highly doubt it. haha. The ball is already in motion.

I hope u get the SOB, not as fun as Texas justice hopefully he does time

The first part of that sounds great, but the second part- not getting my gear back... hmmm... Should I have just taken the stuff yesterday then when I had it in my sites?!?! I will be pisssed if I have to 'buy' back my goods. I think this should just be a 'bonus' to all the garbage I endured. As well, I was short about $2500 because the limits only went up to $5,000 and there was about $7,500 in the loss. I hope I can get this all back?!

you may be able to get back your losses from him, but the insurance company wont pay you and give you the stuff too.

excellent. hope ya'll catch him

Hope all work out good for you and bad for him!!

And I also hope he isn't reading this...

Thanks, and as mentioned above this is a California thing, not anything to do with Texas. Highly unlikely.

Hope he ends up with some jail time.

Hope they bust his a** and throw him in jail.

Dude, there is people that frequent this site from all over the country. My advice to you is contact a mod, have them take this thread down, once the douche is nabbed, put it back up and tell "the rest of the story".

Great work gumshoe!!

treble hook, his nutsack, pully and some rope...

+1,000

TEXAS JUSTICE......NUTTIN LIKE IT

im pretty sure you will get your gear back, you may have to pay back some to the ins co but it will be worth it, glad you got him and I hope he pays dearly for it

I think I saw this guy on Storage Wars the other night. Congrads. on you find. Hope you get it all back.

Hope you get it all back. I would think you'd get to keep the insurance money plus whatever the police department turns back over to you after they're done using it as evidence. It's not like insurance covered all your losses or you got all your stuff back anyway. You got some of your stuff back and some money to cover the rest.

Oh well, good luck catching him!

Kick his @ss Seabass!

hope they nail him!!!!