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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: PinFishin on November 15, 2014, 02:24:00 PM
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Nov 14. Stave River. The only Clean Doe to come out of the river all day in the rock pool I clearly built for it.
Come on man. Really? Who steals someone else's fish right from behind their back? You should be extremely ashamed of yourself if you read this. Although there is a high chance this individual does not read this forum.
For everyone else, a PSA. Watch your catch at the Stave (if you can get a clean fish whatsoever). Someone is stealing fish.
Ps. I thought about the possibility of an animal/it floating away and neither are possible. The rock pool was built well and the water level dropped over the day by about a foot. Animals big enough to carry a full fish away would have been noticed do to the amount of people present.
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I've had minks or similar other little weasels steal my fish a couple times now....its amazing sometimes the rock crevasses that they can hide/squeeze into or how fast they can dissapear with your fish, lol....just sayin ;D
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Ya I'm sure the 5 guys standing on the beach bottom bouncing beside my rock pool had nothing to do with it....
Although little Weasel would describe that well.
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I was fishing on the Campbell River for pinks and had my last fish for my limit. When I went back to where my other fish were there was only 2.
In my mind I thought, getting old and miss counted. Fish were plentifull so I went back to the run I was fishing and caught another. Came back and wouldn't you know it there was 2. Hmm.
Moved my 3 fish closer to where I was fishing so I could keep an eye on them. Five mins. later who comes along, Mr. Mink the Thief. He didn't get any more from me that day.
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I think someone stole Matt from the fishing guys coho or pink last summer.
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Wel the other reason I find it hard to believe that it was an animal was that there was hundreds of dead fish strewn all over the beach. I highly doubt an animal is going for the hard to get one in the river surrounded by rocks.
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I was fishing on the Campbell River for pinks and had my last fish for my limit. When I went back to where my other fish were there was only 2.
In my mind I thought, getting old and miss counted. Fish were plentifull so I went back to the run I was fishing and caught another. Came back and wouldn't you know it there was 2. Hmm.
Moved my 3 fish closer to where I was fishing so I could keep an eye on them. Five mins. later who comes along, Mr. Mink the Thief. He didn't get any more from me that day.
Interesting that you openly admit to have killed more than the allowed limit. Shame - shame on you.
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Interesting that you openly admit to have killed more than the allowed limit. Shame - shame on you.
The mink disagrees with you sir!
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The mink disagrees with you sir!
Sounds more like a rat.
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Sounds more like a rat.
Rats focus on silly stuff like this.
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Rats focus on silly stuff like this.
;D Funny how you focussed in on this. Oh, this is too good.
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Time for http://www.lotek.com/pinpoint-gps.htm (http://www.lotek.com/pinpoint-gps.htm) 8)
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last year on the vedder the guy fishing next to me had 3 coho bonked and took them to his car and had lunch,he came back and bonked his 4th. about 30min later he went to clean it and it was gone. he started fishing again and got another one bonked it and dfo came and asked him how many he had, 3 in the car and 1 here he told them. they went to his car to see the 3 and gave him a ticket for bonking 5, they said they saw him bonk 2 at the river even though he only had the 1.
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I had my fish tacked away in the rocks by a weasel on Capilano one day. I was fishing only 10 meters away and it still managed to stole my fish unnoticed.
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Some of the little rascals are not afraid of people at all:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1111993/Rascally-mink-steals-fish-angers-bucket.html
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Loads of minks on the Capilano, I've donated a few jacks to their starving bellies.
I had a marten patrolling the area I was fishing in the Gwaii C+R cutties and small bulls. The splashes really excited him, but there was a native sockeye net in the river I was fishing and I'm sure he was getting his share of easier fish.
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Interesting that you openly admit to have killed more than the allowed limit. Shame - shame on you.
The mink disagrees with you sir!
Nope he is quote right. He killed 1 fish more than his limit. Interesting some can't figure that out or someone else calls him a rat for pointing this out. Likewise there's considerable doubt any one person stole the fish in the topic post. Of course pretty quick we'll all switch back to self righteously babbling about ethics. ;D
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How certain are you bonked it dead? I once saw someone think they bonked there salmon out and put it in a rock pool. Few mins later the fishes gills were flapping away and I could tell it was getting ready to flip flop to freedom.
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Nope he is quote right. He killed 1 fish more than his limit. Interesting some can't figure that out or someone else calls him a rat for pointing this out. Likewise there's considerable doubt any one person stole the fish in the topic post. Of course pretty quick we'll all switch back to self righteously babbling about ethics. ;D
Hey I said the mink disagrees,
Didnt say I do.
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now don't try weaseling out of this, you've been caught in the coop with a hen by the neck! ;D (jk)
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Teach a man to steal a fish and you feed his friends for life.LOL
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The fish was still there 2 hours after I killed it so I'm pretty positive it did not flip out after 2 hours of playing coy.
With that said I went to the same spot again and caught another chromie which I placed in my rock pool which was untouched from 2 days prior. Remarkably my fish once again did not flop out of the pool but this time I was more careful. I watched as person after person walked up to it, looked around as to if see who "owned" the fish. Each time I turned around to declare.
In the end, no minks, no weasels, no flopping fish. Just surprisingly "curious" people. The day was of great success anyways as we got into a bunch of fish and my friend who has until this point donated his money to fishing stores finally landed his first fish after ~15 outtings.
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I find it a bit nosey when people pop out of nowhere and peek at your fish. Not a problem if they look in while it's caught to see what it was caught on, but I see little benefit to peeking at an already caught fish.
Show me yours and I'll show you mine ;D
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I'd no more leave my wallet or my bicycle where I couldn't keep my eyes on it know they were safe than I would a fish. Don't assume other anglers or other people on the river are all honest or will realize the fish wasn't just left there or whatever. It's basically asking to be robbed. Learn from it.
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Or use a string line , your fish isn't swimming away and the thief has to at least untie your fish to steal it .
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Or use a string line , your fish isn't swimming away and the thief has to at least untie your fish to steal it .
Better tie it to you`re waders. 8)
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I'd no more leave my wallet or my bicycle where I couldn't keep my eyes on it know they were safe than I would a fish. Don't assume other anglers or other people on the river are all honest or will realize the fish wasn't just left there or whatever. It's basically asking to be robbed. Learn from it.
This is what I took away from it. I am new to the sport and feel like I am the rookie at the rivers. I'm constantly worried about ethics and not stepping on others toes. I just figured that this kinda thing doesn't happen unless it's sockeye season. Guess I was wrong. That's fine I have learned my lesson.
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I really think there's some people on the river that r just clepto. I've had a backpack and a net stolen this year. Both of them had really very little value to anyone so the joke's on the idiot who stole them. At least it made me extra careful and choose a less obvious spot to put my coho lol
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Around here its the bears who will come right behind you and steal your fresh kill.