Sorry Lonnie, that same kind of crap happened to us in area 8-2 while crabbing. Our pots weren't stolen, but the crab were. How did we know? The pot was empty and we had been doing limits, but the telltale hint was a beer bottle in the pot.

I now keep the pots in front of our place just far enough away so I can see them with binoculars.
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