I know a guy who encounterd this in the Western Sound. He had an interesting approach that worked very very well.

He waited until the saw the commercial guy pulling his own pots. He went up to him and said........................"you can keep cutting my lobster pot lines if you want, but remember, YOU have a lot more to lose than me, so it's your choice"...........

It ended rather quickly.

I lost half a dozen pots off Stonington this year. One week I was in an area all by myself, next week my buoys are gone, and there are 50 orange and white buoys in the area. I was gonna spread them out the week before and decided to leave them one more week. My bad I guess. I'm not looking to deprive anybody an opportunity to make a living, but c'mon... Besides, It's not like I'm gong to stop fishing.

Call our dispatch center and ask for the officer who covers your area to contact you. Explain to the officer what is happening, that way they can keep an eye on who is doing what out there and take the appropriate enforcement action.

Orange and white buoys in stonington are Mike Grimshaws,...he's a fuhkn DIRTBAG THIEF...................end of story,......cut him....cut all of em..... Actually it does no good to cut with just lost gear everywhere, I watched this go on between my old boss and a few boys from Fishers 15 years ago over turf and it was just stupid.......I can almost guarantee that your pots are sitting on town dock somewhere as he has helped himself to many's over the years and has been bagged doing it,..he has no class, no trustworthyness,no couth, no skill he just carpet bombs the sound.The man is a skeevy scumbag
His boats are the Lady Lynn and Trisha K unless he changed the names,..his wife divorced him a few years ago but they are Stonington borough town dock.......

Colleen Giannini 860-447-4308