Pinfish trap.

ANUMBER1

Found this in the shrimp only zone off Crystal  River wrapped up with a couple of crab traps.
Brought it to the dock..
Blue buoy with letters  H B C in orange.
If yours let me know.

Saltygatorvet

Nice of you. I wonder if most of the pinfish traps people think are stolen just moved. Whatcha think? 

ANUMBER1

well most have no rebar so unless in a shallow bay then yes, but pinfish trap theft is a huge issue.

This was in a shrimp zone wrapped up with 2 of my traps so was probably drug by a shrimp boat into the area.

nick

I think Dallas had blue painted buoys.

I'll start the bidding at $10!

ANUMBER1

I don't know who Dallas is.

nick

Pirate flag

AC Man

I used to put my pin fish trap south west of the last marker in Crystal River. It would move a 1/4 mile at times but no one ever messed with it. 

gnomeinbrain

I have had 4 stolen. One time, I checked the trap, but didn't have any bait to refill it. Caught a trash fish, came back an hour later and it was gone.

srfshaddict

I had one stolen ( many total) in less than a few hours and they cut the float I found a few yards away. Also crab traps within a few hours.Loser scumbags.I feel your pain my friend.

nick

There’s a ton of red crab traps in the river someone cut the buoys on. 

There’s yellow traps right next to them. I’m guessing ole yeller trap got angry someone set in “his area.”

ANUMBER1

srfshaddict said:

I had one stolen ( many total) in less than a few hours and they cut the float I found a few yards away. Also crab traps within a few hours.Loser scumbags.I feel your pain my friend.

are you the one that puts out them junky crab traps right on top of mine?

Soda Popinski

Art were you out Saturday?   I saw a commercial boat out going over his traps while we were trolling around for grouper.

ANUMBER1

No, two of our boats were but not me.

trousertroutman

I used to tie them off to a mangrove with a fishing line, or set out at night and pick in the morning because they would get stolen growing up in cocoa beach with a legally marked float