Responsibility

[Kasim Baluch]

Hey everyone,

As you all know, season openers have recently opened up and more will be opening up over the next weeks. As I've been getting more into fishing, I care mores about the environment and sustaining it for our next generation. it kills me to know the fun that my dad had with his brothers fishing in Canada is not as easy as it is now, as searching for clean bodies of water is getting harder to find.

So in the end, its not for me, but its our way of giving back... Ensure that when you go out, clean up after yourselves, whatever lake, pond, stream, trib or anything that you fished in should be the exact same on how you left it. Be responsible for yourselves and lets keep the passion that we call fishing going in all of our favourite fishing spots.

Make it your mission that if you see a beer bottle, styrofoam, fishing line on the ground, just grab it, put it in a plastic bag and throw it out in the garbage on your way out. It may not do much, but it definitely won't make it worse.

Wish you all tight lines and great seasons as the weather opens up.

 

[Dozer]

Amen to that - if we all adopted this idea we wouldn't have to worry about fishing spots getting shut down because of the mess made. Not only that the local wildlife suffers greatly from it as well... ugh... we are killing our playgrounds because our laziness... salute BnK and spread the good word Sadly this falls on deaf ears, or however that saying goes...

 

[Kit]

I want to organize a river clean up sometime this season.

 

[Kasim Baluch]

I want to organize a river clean up sometime this season.

Completely down with that, don't mind helping you set it up!!

 

[Dozer]

I run one out east - been doing one every year for 4 years now. redneckchromer does one for out west each year. Pick a river, contact the local authority in charge of garbage pickup/park maintenance ( if the river runs through a park ) and find out where you can dump the trash. They will be more than happy setting you up. I wait until the salmon run finishes and then do the clean. We only really do two spots but the amount of trash builds up quick - usually around 15-20 bags of stuff from literally two spots ( well known community pools ). Let us know when and where - I'm always down.

 

[miles]

The snow had finally stated to melt up here and it's exposing the trash. I picked up garbage on three different tribs this weekend. The most popular and the place I normally fish has normally no trash whatsoever. The tribs I was cleaning where the small less well known ones. I watched a group of people show up fish then leave all their trash all over the ground one place, even some glass.

 

[Kasim Baluch]

I only thought to post this as just as mentioned above, the snow exposed all the trash and it looks worse this year than any other.

Was hopeful that this thread would be one of the bigger ones with lots of discussion but hopefully it picks up.

Not trying to save the world here but at least we can slow down the process in our home, whatever lake or trib it might be.

I'm telling you, even if its not a whole clean up. A plastic bag full every time people go out and make sure you fill it up is gonna help. And sadly it won't take that long to fill it. I guess if we care we have to be the example. I know my dad as an older guy never liked it but he understands it now so getting one guy into it helps

 

[Captain Barty]

I fill a garbage bag here and there in the fall. The looks some guys give you when you're doing makes it that much more worth it.

 

[Shmogley]

it makes me sick too bro,
this week for example go to some of the spots guys frequent.. see pure roe bags, hook packages, wieghts and weight packages, tangles of line, beer bottles, smoke butts, cups... everything you can think of
its infuriating. i wonder how these peoples backyard looks

i always walk in with a large coffee cup int he morning, and all my trash and smoke butts, line clippings etc go in there and i take it out with me.
doesnt take any work either. god the laziness is incredible these days isnt it?

if i ever see a posting of a organised cleanup in the future, ill be interested for sure.