Well I had an interesting Monday to say the least. I went out prawing off Nanaimo out by the five fingers and drove up to one of my good spots and set my gear down a couple hundred yards away from some other floats that belonged to a boat that was anchored just behind the last finger. I've seen this boat before and it has a charter name written on the side with a phone number. I left the area and booted down south to Northumberland Channel to meet up with some buddies down there. I talked to them for a couple of minutes and said I'd be back and booted back to check my gear. 45 minutes max went by by the time I left and got back to my gear. The charter boat was just leaving the area and there was no floats to be seen. I use the large orange commercial style floats that you can see miles away with my name and number clearly marked on them and not one in site. I went up to the boat and I grubby looking guy that seem to have had a little to much to drink came out back and I asked him if they had seen my floats, they said no (lying ******* I thought). I gave him the benefit of the doubt and made one last circle of the area and no floats. I quickly caught up to them in Departure Bay and came right up behind them and looked up the ladder way to their covered command bridge and saw my gear!. I was pretty mad by now and I didn't bother with bumpers or anything I just rammed up the side of them and tied off to their vessel and started screaming at them "give my my sh*t back before I call the cops you f*&$ing a**h*&es". They were a little shocked to say the least and quickly came up with a B.S. story that some guy had called them and said he lost his traps and they thought they were his. I was the only other boat out there and they damn well saw me put those traps down. I asked them why they lied to me in the first place and got my gear into my boat. I untied from them and said that's how boat's get sunk you f*&$ing thieves. I drove around in my boat for a while to calm down. I'm glad I don't have a shotgun on board otherwise that vessel might have joined the Titanic. I'm reporting them to the cops and the harbour commision. Word to all the honest fisherman out there, don't leave your gear even for a minute!!!