Honeoye Lakes Sportsman of the year

[youngblood]

      If you see this guy on the lake Congratulate him. He leaves his tipups in over night unattended. Pretty sad.

[Raquettedacker]

      If you see this guy on the lake Congratulate him. He leaves his tipups in over night unattended. Pretty sad.

  And you know this for a fact?
Shame on you for not reporting him….

[youngblood]

  100% fact. His reply was he fished till midnight and he was to cold. He packed them up at 9AM. Reporting him would have just cut into my jigging time. I don't think DEC was waiting at the launch with his sled waiting for me to call him to drive 3 miles down the lake.

[Adironzach]

Damn what a dickhead. Ill bring binoculars if i feel like my bouncing around might bring me too far away for my eyes to see my flags well enough. Cant imagine just letting them soak overnight 

[skinny4]

I feel bad when I look out my hut and see a flag up and don't know how long it was up. I never try to leave them unwatched. If I make it out there this year I'll be heading down that shoreline before the sun comes up. I'll look for those traps and if I find them unguarded I definitely won't mess with them. So if someone brakes them into little pieces and leaves them on the ice just know that it wasn't me. Lol

[youngblood]

I feel bad when I look out my hut and see a flag up and don't know how long it was up. I never try to leave them unwatched. If I make it out there this year I'll be heading down that shoreline before the sun comes up. I'll look for those traps and if I find them unguarded I definitely won't mess with them. So if someone brakes them into little pieces and leaves them on the ice just know that it wasn't me. Lol

   That was my 1st thought was to stomp them into pieces. There was 3 flags (probably wind flags) and wasn't sure if there were fish on them. They were so froze in and I didn't have spud with me. I didn't even watch him bring them in. It was so windy and I was so discussed.

[62&done]

I would smash them if I honestly thought that it was intentional.  A couple years back I ran into a fellow at daybreak who was looking for a tip-up which he had left the night before when he could not find it in the dark and blowing snow. I'll buy that, but not if there were several. Smash-em

[BUCKSKI]

Yeah when I take out my sons or friends I get weird about counting them. I keep them in bags of five now. Lost I'd lost one this year, in my son's jet sled.
Hate seeing a flag up unattended, also hate excessive flag yells. Kinda a catch 22

[gonephishin]

Anyone who smashes someone else's traps (illegally unattended or not) is just as much of a scumbag, too imo....

You gonna key my car if you see me speeding too?

[robert.d12]

Anyone who smashes someone else's traps (illegally unattended or not) is just as much of a scumbag, too imo....

You gonna key my car if you see me speeding too?

Agreed, report it and let the law do its work

[ActiveTrapChecker]

I would have just told his mother on him. Some good ol’ fashioned parenting is in order

[youngblood]

Anyone who smashes someone else's traps (illegally unattended or not) is just as much of a scumbag, too imo....

You gonna key my car if you see me speeding too?

I am not part of the entitled generation. Leave your toys in the driveway get them run over.

[Yotecatcher]

Neither am I but it's the same thing as setting a trap on public land. Ya don't mess with someone else's stuff no matter what. As someone else said you call the law.

[gonephishin]

I am not part of the entitled generation. Leave your toys in the driveway get them run over.

Idk, that statement is pretty entitled in itself. If someone wants to enforce laws, they should join the blue instead of "backing it".

[Ice_Fly_Guy]

Might not be "right", but I bet the MF wouldn't do that again if you disappeared all of them.

[skinny4]

Neither am I but it's the same thing as setting a trap on public land. Ya don't mess with someone else's stuff no matter what. As someone else said you call the law.
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The law says it's unlawful to mess with LEGALLY set traps. I would never mess with a legally set trap. I wouldn't even go near it on purpose.  But we're talking more like poaching. I don't know of any law that protects a poachers rights to fish illegally. If I see trash on the ice I pick it up. Mostly it's all useless but maybe next time it's a new set of tip ups. Is picking up empty propane bottles considered stealing? Or the 30 empty beer cans? I'd take them tip ups and most likely give them to someone who doesn't have any and will play by the rules.

[gonephishin]

I agree - if you care enough call law enforcement, if not walk away.  Stealing/breaking other peoples stuff isn't the answer.

Amen. Or blasting them on the internet. If you have the time to post it, go take it up with them in person or stuff it, imo.

Side note, I'd like to see someone break my old HT tip ups. I LITERALLY stomp my hole to get them out when they're froze. I wish the Hulk luck in breaking them, lol.

Cheers, Frogger.

[gonephishin]

Neither am I but it's the same thing as setting a trap on public land. Ya don't mess with someone else's stuff no matter what. As someone else said you call the law.
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The law says it's unlawful to mess with LEGALLY set traps. I would never mess with a legally set trap. I wouldn't even go near it on purpose.  But we're talking more like poaching. I don't know of any law that protects a poachers rights to fish illegally. If I see trash on the ice I pick it up. Mostly it's all useless but maybe next time it's a new set of tip ups. Is picking up empty propane bottles considered stealing? Or the 30 empty beer cans? I'd take them tip ups and most likely give them to someone who doesn't have any and will play by the rules.

Picking up trash is called stewardship. What you describe is called theft. "But we're talking more like..." is where you lost me.

[Yotecatcher]

With today's technology we can take a picture and they are time stamped. So instead of stealing, destroying someone's stuff why wldnt you take a pic of them and when you go back and they are still there take another one. Then call the proper authorities?

[RustyTrombone]

I don’t mess with no one’s gear. Don’t need no grief. Never know what some drunk I
Will do if it happens. Not worth dying over a trashed tip down.