Stolen Drift boat from Unicoi

[Mike Popick]

From Jimmy Harris - owner Unicoi Outfitters


Well, here we go again. Someone has stolen our Hyde drift boat from behind the store in Blue Ridge. It's red, black and white, has counter-balanced oars, and, when it left our place it had an oval Unicoi logo on each side of the bow. You never know if someone dumb enough to steal something as large and unusual as a drift boat will have the sense to take the logo off. Not sure how you fence something like this but we would appreciate everyone keeping an eye out for it. If you have any information concerning its whereabouts, you may call our shop in Blue Ridge at 706-632-1880 or our shop in Helen at 706-878-3083. If your information leads to the recovery of our boat, I promise you will be one well-equiped angler, compliments of Unicoi Outfitters.

[Uncle Jesse]

Did you send a heads up to the DNR in TN, SC, NC, maybe VA.

I'll keep an eye out on the Hooch, but I mostly warm water fish in smaller lakes.

[Flybeetlefly]

I'll keep a eye out for that drift boat up here in SW Virginia.

Paul (Flybeetlefly)

[William Fitzgerald]

Watch EBay The things sometime show up for a fast sale.BILL

Dont you have numbers like autos on boats--in Indiana they have to be registered like a car and harder to steal and sell

[William Fitzgerald]

One on ebay for sale in Baldwin Georgia--------$3,650

[Joe Hyde]

Mike,


I'm ignorant about most aspects of drift boat fishing; it's something I've never done. So I'm curious:

Do drift boats need a trailer to ride on when being transported on the highway? If so, did the thief or thieves also steal the trailer you had your boat sitting on?

I've never seen drift boats used in Kansas, and don't ever expect to. Nor have I seen one being trailered across Kansas. But I'll keep an eye out for them now; the posts above have educated me that this boat type is used not just on western U.S. rivers but eastern U.S. rivers as well.


Joe
"Better small than not at all."

[waynep]

There are a growing number of them being used on Arkansas rivers also . . .

-wayne

[DShock]

Joe,
Quote; "Do drift boats need a trailer to ride on when being transported on the highway? If so, did the thief or thieves also steal the trailer you had your boat sitting on?"
Yes! They are usually Aluminum or Fiberglass and are too heavy to haul without a trailer.
Doug

[ELKHUNTER]

One was stolen from a construction yard here a few months ago. They found it two weeks later cut up in pieces in a scrap yard. The thieves cut it up and sold it for scrap metal.

Rocky