Once I had a fish stolen out of the back of my truck. I was surf casting for stripers and caught one that probably went about 15 pounds. I had it in a cut off bottom of a 55 gallon drum in the bed of my truck covered with a wet towel. After the action slowed down, I moved to a different beach and saw a friend fishing there. He started razzing me about how I hadn't caught anything, so i showed him my catch. After shutting him up and putting it back, we both decided to check out a different location. We spent maybe a half hour casting with no luck, and decided to call it a day. We got back to the trucks and he just wanted to see the fish one more time, and *POOF* it was gone. I can only suspect someone who saw me show the fish to my friend followed us and grabbed the fish up while we were busy casting. What ticks me off is if someone was hungry or even if he realllly admired the fish, I would have given it to them. I'm sure someone just wanted to sell it illegally to a local restaraunt for some $$.