This is hard to say unless you know how old he is; My grandfather used to duck hunt with a "duck boat" back in the day. It was a small boat with three mounted 10 gauge shotguns, you would wait for the ducks to come to a pond then pull the trigger and BLAM! Then you go collect a flock. :lol: It is amazing what they used to do here in the Michigan outdoors.
It was back in the late 50s and early 60's. I thought it was legal in all the Great Lakes? We would get ice so thick you could drive a pickup on it and we caught perch by the pail full. When I see all this excitement when someone here catches a few perch I'm glad that I was around back then. Access was available to all the fishing sites that now you need a Metro Park sticker or paying someone $5.00 to park if you have any access at all. I don't remember seeing fishing sites strewn with trash then either and there were thousands of people on the ice back then. I hadn't ice fished in almost 20 years (started last year again) and I feel like Rip Van Winkle. 50 page fishing regulation booklets that take a Philadelphia lawyer to interpret. Why can you spear perch in Lake St, Clair and not Erie ? Every fishing hole has its own regulations? Looks like it. Welcome to the 21st century. Glad to see you young folks still fishing but believe me Im glad that I icefished back 20-40 years ago. There is NO Comparision.
The dumping grounds in lake st.clair got their name for a reason, don't make it seem as if the older generations treated these lakes better they we do now. :lol:
Those were corporations and industry that did that. Probably the same ones that are poluting 3rd world countries now. Individuals were for the most part brought up better to respect people's property. With almost 30 years in the military I was taught "clean as you go" as I'm sure most people that served still do. Whom do you think started cleaning up the environment in the 60's? If it didn't start then when do you think it did start? The waters and air are a lot cleaner now because of the effort taken 40 and more years ago.
I’m sorry but I know these places were cleaner then. If they weren’t why weren’t they closed back then? Why were so many closed in the past 10 years? Sure there were small fish left on the ice, old bait and of course back then… cigarette butts, not plastic food wrappers, plastic bottles, plastic bags etc. etc. Seems that some people are never without that bottle of whatever and bag of food and then when they finish it drops to the ground and takes root there.
