stelmon
06-29-2004, 06:17 PM
Can't believe it but summer is flying fast and soon the salmon are going to start entering the rivers. As most of you, if not all of you know, our rivers get pretty trashy during the fall and I know I really hate it.
Last summer a friend of mine noticed alot of trash at his favorite fishing hole. One day he brought down a garbage bag and left it there. A week later he came back and the bag was full and there was no garbage around.
Last spring I noticed something too. One of my favorite steelhead holes has one single trash can near the river. That hole never had any garbage laying around except for the occasional spawn sack on the ground. I fished this hole from Febuary til April. I do alot of fishing during the fall and spring and I have noticed that people are most lazy when there is no trash can or bag around.
This all got me thinking. Many of us sportsman try to pick up after others and make the rivers better for all of us. So here is what I am proposing. I just started a yahoo group for us outdoorsman who would go down to rivers, leave bags, and then pick them up. We can't all be on the river all the time so we would need different people in order to pick up the bags and leave a new one.
I am posting this on several other michigan fishing and hunting boards. To keep things in check and organized I have started a yahoo group that everyone can join up who is interested. If any moderators have a problems with this please let me know. If you'd like to help, join up there and post what rivers you could take care of. We need to get someone leaving them and then pickin them up so they don't become part of the problem every week.
If this works through salmon season, I am willing to keep it going through spring steelheading. Anyone interested can join here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MRCCrew/
Please join me this fall in keeping our rivers trash free.
Last summer a friend of mine noticed alot of trash at his favorite fishing hole. One day he brought down a garbage bag and left it there. A week later he came back and the bag was full and there was no garbage around.
Last spring I noticed something too. One of my favorite steelhead holes has one single trash can near the river. That hole never had any garbage laying around except for the occasional spawn sack on the ground. I fished this hole from Febuary til April. I do alot of fishing during the fall and spring and I have noticed that people are most lazy when there is no trash can or bag around.
This all got me thinking. Many of us sportsman try to pick up after others and make the rivers better for all of us. So here is what I am proposing. I just started a yahoo group for us outdoorsman who would go down to rivers, leave bags, and then pick them up. We can't all be on the river all the time so we would need different people in order to pick up the bags and leave a new one.
I am posting this on several other michigan fishing and hunting boards. To keep things in check and organized I have started a yahoo group that everyone can join up who is interested. If any moderators have a problems with this please let me know. If you'd like to help, join up there and post what rivers you could take care of. We need to get someone leaving them and then pickin them up so they don't become part of the problem every week.
If this works through salmon season, I am willing to keep it going through spring steelheading. Anyone interested can join here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MRCCrew/
Please join me this fall in keeping our rivers trash free.