Update:

Found the truck yesterday. Was parked in the back parking lot of the businesses just west of the launch. The business owner said it showed up sometime Wednesday night, but they didn't call it in until the next morning.

That's the good news. Now the bad news.

No trailer
Busted window (also damaged the frame)
Looks like they tried to pry open the hood so the hood and front grill are slightly tweaked.
Tried to steal the batteries, but didn't have the right wrench so tried brute force
Took everything they could pick up from the inside
I tried to start it but it made an awful noise and then threw an error message. Got a call from the Ford dealer today, and turns out they took most of the exhaust system.

Hopefully, insurance will pay to get the truck right, but am still missing my trailer and that had no insurance which kind of sucks. Hopefully that turns up sometime.

We'll see how much of the stuff from inside gets covered. I guess if its not directly tied to the truck, it falls under my home owners insurance which is a separate and large deductible

wheres the nearest scrap yard?

Bossman,
Glad to hear that your truck was found.
Sorry to hear about the damage and your trailer.
Quick question, how was your trailer locked to the hitch?

I've got a raft trailer as well. Just trying to avoid as much as possible getting back to the launch and finding no trailer.
SF

Glad you got something back, at least.

Fish on...

Todd

If I could get away with it, I'd love to hose 'em with birdshot, like #8 or #9.
Hundreds of little holes in the bastards.
Then smash their hands with a chunk of #6 rebar as a going away present.

That should do it.



But vigilantism is wrong.
They say.


Edit:
I would be willing to trade all of the above for an Indonesian-style, ass-shredding caning.
Say about 50 lashes each.

DD,

Vigilantism is only wrong when society's LE and justice system function to make society safe, which is their fundamental purpose. Unfortunately, the system fails in that purpose. Vigilantism in a form that extracts justice by preventing perps from re-offending is exactly what will motivate society's LE and justice system to reform and become functional. Caning may be entertaining, but it is only useful if it "cures" the offender. I remain in the S-S-S camp. (Shoot, shovel, shut up simply because it works.)

Sg

OK, how 'bout an ass-shredding prior to S-S-S ?
The crime victim could land as many lashes as he or she would like.
Those in on the capture would get their time on the cane as well.

If I could only have 5 minutes alone with those S.O.B.s. I hate thieves! Anyhow, I'm glad to hear that you at least got your truck back.

I think the nearest scrap yard is in Monroe, on the east end of town by the railroad tracks.

that totally sucks but this town has a lot of problems...

Had I guy living in my shed for a couple of days, the girlfriend was on the back porch one morning when he came out, he didn't skip a beat just asked her if he could use the bathroom in the house.... k-9 unit found him, then found the drugs he stashed in the shed....

Update #2

Well, some more good news.

They found my trailer. Picked it up tonight a mile or two outside of Monroe on a dead end street. The winch and winch stand, along with the rear roller are missing, but otherwise the trailer is fine. The winch stand and roller missing are a bit of a bummer as those are custom pieces I’m going to have to figure out how to get replaced. But still better than buying a whole new trailer.

Oh and the Ford dealer got back to me, the reason the truck wouldn't run is they took most of the exhaust system. He ball parked the repair bill at ~9k or more and that doesn't include the body damage.

After the insurance deductible and all the misc stuff missing not covered by insurance I'll probably be out $700-$1000, lost fishing time, plus a bunch of aggravation. An expensive day on the river. Also, makes me very leery of ever fishing up there again.

GDITMMM!

You guys need to take control and start a group that splits time watching from afar, wait, pounce, Wheel lock to the head and dump in the King hole downstream, make for a good underwater snag!