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Re: NFC: minnow trap vandals



Ah courteous bandits they could have taken the trap too. Sorry joking that
is sad when someone takes to raiding anothers minnow trap sad sad indeed. 


At 06:23 PM 7/29/99 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 7/29/99 8:38:01 AM US Central Standard Time, 
>hedemark at raleigh_ibm.com writes:
>
><<  I went to collect the fish from my minnow trap yesterday and some
> [explicative] emptied out my minnow trap and wasn't even nice enough to
> put it back in the water. >>
>
>When I leave traps out overnight, I have taken to putting them in dark water 
>and hiding the line.  If it is sandy, I cover the line with sand and then 
>place some rocks on top of that.  Sometimes I have tied the line off 
>underwater.
>
>I use black marine quality twine I bought at Walmart so it is less visible.  
>You just have to remember or mark an area near where the trap is.  So far, I 
>have only lost one trap but figure it was my own faulty memory.
>
>Chuck Church
>Indianapolis, Indiana USA
>
>