Old Salt wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2011 at 2:47pm:

If there are other fishermen on the lake, I've been known to position my marker buoys in such a way, so that I know where the spot is, but if others try to fish off my buoys, they will miss the spot...

This may be connected to the thread about not taking other peoples stuff you find in the woods. I have always wondered if it is an unwritten rule to never take or move someones buoy. But then there is that person who didn't get that memo and steals my one and only buoy!!
I was also thinking about just bringing some bag and rope as a buoy, but if I were paddling along and saw a plastic bag in the water I would pick it up. When I got to the rock at the end of the rope I would figure it out. Would you put it back?