Nothing has changed for me over the last 20 years. Doesn't matter what lake I am staying at. I'll be taking my [censored] inside.

I run a body shop north of Waco. A few years back they caught some guys stealing tools from shops all around the Waco area. They had ripped off about 140 shops over many years. They finally caught them. They were taking all of the stuff to swap meets in the Austin and even the San Antonio area. I had over $19000.00 worth of hand tools stolen. They only took Snap- On Tools from me. Left everything else. They were a very well run operation. I think one of the guys wives or girlfriends turned them in. This story really reminds me of this. You guys need to catch these guys somehow. Whoever is doing it has been doing it for years! Sorry for the loss.

they do make tracking devices? u can put a bug in a depth finder and set up a sting. they did that here in illinois where i live to bust boat thieves and caught em red handed.

they'll still hit you, you'll just have a nice video to watch of them doing it.

best guess was 12/12 or 12/13

Very sorry to learn of the several break-ins and I hope the thieves are caught and punished severely. I myself was on Long Branch fishing just a few nights before your break-ins and I had a boat in a boat house stall parked overnight near Long Branch. Any success catching the thieves so far?

Just my two cents $$$......If every boat owner with expensive boats/tackle like most of us living on Long Branch or a similar area had already invested in a reasonalbly priced boat alarm, we would be only be hearing that one single boatowner had had a rod locker damaged and the contents broken in to and surely some attempted robberies that night would have been averted by a loud alarm waking up the nearby sleeping neighborhood.

Alarms aren't cheap, and we shouldn't have to buy one and we also shouldn't have to lock and secure our cars parked at the mall, but times are what they are. Like our cars on parking lots, boats in boathouses are setting over very public waters. Alarmed locks do discourage thieves by making it difficult for them to not get caught. Boat alarms can be installed and made very reliable and almost foolproof.

Yes, good alarms are a bear to install for some of us, so we also need help and to require that the boat manufacturers step up and at least inexpensively prewire the boat lid hatches for alarm sensors on the better equipped bass boats that new boat owners buy.

Lou r Pitcher
Yes, good alarms are a bear to install for some of us, so we also need help and to require that the boat manufacturers step up and at least inexpensively prewire the boat lid hatches for alarm sensors on the better equipped bass boats that new boat owners buy.

That sure would be nice for all & it could be installed in an hour or less.