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| Just read a disturbing report of a gentleman having his rig and equipment ransacked at a hotel near a local spring fishing hotspot. Any tips from you all on protecting your rigs and equips while visiting overnite fishing spots? |
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Location: upper michigan | bring everything into you hotel room at night!!!! |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Lock all your lockers if possible! I take all electronics and anything that can be grabbed easily that isn't locked up in the hotel. Takes a few more minutes at night but well worth it if you don't want to worry about things like that. Another thing, put your cover on your boat if you have one, it may not totally stop someone from doing what there going to do, but if you have a boat without a cover on it next to you, there more than likely going to work on that boat first then deal with a covered boat. A cover in my opinion is just another deterent if you ask me. |
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Location: Elgin, Illinois | I know that people were disappointed in the one previous product... Dock Cop... But, would an effective alarm system be a viable product... I know that the bigger cruiser/yacht types have several to choose from... Would fishermen buy a system that worked... |
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Location: Rhinelander | I'm using my Frabill Arctic Sirens ( tip-up alarm) in a couple applications on my rig this year. Velcro installation, easy and a LOUD siren when activated. |
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| Now THAT is a great idea ... locker door opens, alarm goes off ..... sweeet!!!!! Busted!!!!! |
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Location: Midland, MI 48642 | Steve, that is a great idea! Skeeter |
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| i always take my electronics off and bring all my cranks and baitboxes in the hotel. i also put my cover on the boat and try to get a room where i can see my boat from the window. i realize if someone wants to rip you off they will do it but just putting the cover on will make it harder for them to just reach in and grab something. even when i go to a place to eat i always try to park by a window where i can see my rig. |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Park under lights in parking lot visible from your hotel window if possible. Lock your kicker via cable or Master lock to and through your transom or lift. No time, or lunch time is to short of time not to be careful in strange neighborhoods or marina's. Everybody likes to have their stuff admired. But nobody in the "HOOD" gives a crap about your new Lowrance with C-map features, at least not for their own personal use. Everyplace, no matter what the reputation has thieves. Keep the equipment braging anywhere you go to a minimum. Be congenial, but keep those types away from your rig when possible.
Edited by walleye express 4/9/2007 10:42 AM
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Location: McFarland, WI | There is a product called Loc r bar that mounts accross you lockers. I had to make my own version of this device for the Tuffy because the gunnels are not flush with the floor. I have eye bolts anchored in the floor and a pipe goes through the eye bolts which is held in place by a lock.
Larry Strelow |
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