03-25-2006, 03:41 PM
Hit UL yesterday morning. Stopped by the river headgates by the pumphouse--beautiful, they're wide open & lettin' out one heckuva flow. That sure won't hurt the river fishing later on when the flow goes down. Tried the breakwater at the new Saratoga marina for a couple hours, nothing. Went to PBH & fished the lake side of the north breakwater for about 3 hrs. Saw a bunch of bullheads caught & one channel. Never had a bite myself.
I got bored sitting watching my poled doing nothing so I went & asked the park ranger for some trash bags. Figured I'd pick up trash after the human kind of trash around where I was fishing. Geez, I couldn't believe it. In about 150 yd. on just one side of the road I gathered up 5 bags of stuff. I can't believe the ignorance of some people. Are they lazy or just stupid enough to think that if they throw it into the brush it'll "go away"?
I've done this for quite a while when I go bank fishing & wonder if a challenge to all of us BFTers to kinda make it our group cru
e could make a difference. That park ranger was tickled to death to get me some trash bags & was kinda apologetic about the mess & said they just can't keep up, try as they might.
Had another thought. If all of we BFTers bought us one of those small aluminum ball bats to use on them that is fixin to leave stuff layin around, could we make a difference?
Whooeee, I sure got on a soapbox here didn't I? Anyway, the weather was beautiful yesterday & the fishing was great. Catching sorta sucked for me but it was still great to get out.
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I got bored sitting watching my poled doing nothing so I went & asked the park ranger for some trash bags. Figured I'd pick up trash after the human kind of trash around where I was fishing. Geez, I couldn't believe it. In about 150 yd. on just one side of the road I gathered up 5 bags of stuff. I can't believe the ignorance of some people. Are they lazy or just stupid enough to think that if they throw it into the brush it'll "go away"?
I've done this for quite a while when I go bank fishing & wonder if a challenge to all of us BFTers to kinda make it our group cru
e could make a difference. That park ranger was tickled to death to get me some trash bags & was kinda apologetic about the mess & said they just can't keep up, try as they might. Had another thought. If all of we BFTers bought us one of those small aluminum ball bats to use on them that is fixin to leave stuff layin around, could we make a difference?
Whooeee, I sure got on a soapbox here didn't I? Anyway, the weather was beautiful yesterday & the fishing was great. Catching sorta sucked for me but it was still great to get out.
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