Trash on the Lake

[crappie castle]

    went out on the lake today after a busy weekend trash all over the ice from beer bottles >little green lp bottles > but what made me sick was to garbage bags full of human waste.....where do people thing this stuff goes after they leave the lake.....we we dont pick it up to the bottom......like everyone wants to see a bag of human waste on there beach in spring ......anyone else have this problem   

[kingfisher1]

yes, I've seen this problem often.  Bald Eagle can get it pretty bad sometimes, and so can the areas aound the shanty towns on the Croix.

[sjohnnie26]

SLOBS.  Why can't people just clean up after themselves?  Its not that difficult.

[kingfisher1]

SLOBS.  Why can't people just clean up after themselves?  Its not that difficult.

It's not all that difficult at all.  I've seen anything from plastic wrappers to beer bottle/cans, cig butts (I'm guilty sometimes, but try to pick up after myeslf), grub/eurolarvae containers, a few minnow buckets, etc.  It's disgusting!  It's people that don't pick up after themselves makes me understand why some lakefront property owners hate us fisherman.  A few bad appls ruin it for the rest of us.

[dakids]

Went out yesterday on Pierson's lake in carver county.  It is a very small lake with only a few ice houses on it.  We found a burned up tent on the ice just off of the point.  On the point there was still a camp fire going.  The fire could have very easily spread to the swamp grass 15-20 yards away.  We couldn't pick up the remnants of the tent because I had the wifes van and a full load of kids.  I will be going back in the next few days to clean it up.

On a good note my daughter found a brand new swiss army pocket knife by the tent.

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[kingfisher1]

Why couldn't whover burned the tent clean it up?  That's just sick!  They have the gonads to burn it, why not have the gonads to clean it up!?!?!

[101PROOF]

It's bad how people just don't give a  about lettering. I pick everything around me when I'm out ice fishing and it's not mine!

some people need to think of the 1980 commercial with the indian on top of the mountain over looking all the trash, with a tear running down his cheek.


The sick thing is most of the people that leave there junk like that life like that at home.

[crappie castle]

  the problem is that when you open the lake up to all fisherman ...plow a road...so they can get out ...and its the first year...you have everyneighbor watching you and if anything floats up on there beach they have the lake assoc shut you down for ice fishing and there goes you business you worked so hard for...thats what going to happen to us ...we are normally open may thru oct but thought we would let people out in the winter to catch northerns,crappies,and walleyes with every eye on us....but these pigs are not making it easy so it may have to come to a end.....thats not easy to sallow

[Woody]

some people need to think of the 1980 commercial with the indian on top of the mountain over looking all the trash, with a tear running down his cheek.

I agree! They should bring that one back!  I work with slobs, and always seem to have.  I get on them all the time for it.  Who knows-I'm only guessing they are the same way at home and on the lakes. 

In the last few years I've learned to bring along garbage bags to not only pick up after myself, but the lazy  that left their  behind.  I'd rather they just write their names in snow when they pee'd to leave their mark "I was here". 

[HD]

Every year we, me included... (the lake association) Go around and pick the lake up after season, and just before ice off.

I should see if I still have some of the photo's from years past.
It would astound you on how much  we pick up.


Hunter

[JCAMERON]

I always pick up other people crap off the ice. I like to use the bag that minnows come in for that crap. It never takes more than a few minutes to clean up your own garbage. I just hate seeing that crap on the ice, plus the karma might help me catch some fish. 

[kingfisher1]

I always pick up other people crap off the ice. I like to use the bag that minnows come in for that crap. It never takes more than a few minutes to clean up your own garbage. I just hate seeing that crap on the ice, plus the karma might help me catch some fish. 

might need to pick up some more trash if your fishing karma is anything like this last sunday!!!!   

[JCAMERON]

No doubt...

[babylakeguide]

Posted pictures say many words.

[Bobby Bass]

You know these slobs aren't just on the lakes. Today I went to the car wash to give the Dodge a rinse and when the door open there in the bay was an electric stove that someone had just driven into the self service bay and unloaded. Hell I was pissed and I am not the one who is going to have to pay to have it hauled away. 

[101PROOF]

We have that at work all the time.

 Three weeks ago we had an employee working late and he went to throw some scrap in the scrap matel tank, and there was 3 guys dumpping rolles of carpet in the steel scrap tank.
He told them to pull it all out or he was calling the cops.  So they did and left.
The employee fallowed them to see if they where going to the next busness to unload there junk and they pulled in the a carpete store down the raod.
 

[IKE311]

  I think the police and COs should start writing more tickets. And as their fine they should have to pick up trash. My family does the adopt a highway and ya it sucks but you feel good and it looks a lot better when it's done. Leave it cleaner then it was when you got there.

[JCAMERON]

How about citizen citations???? Wouldn't that be nice to slap some slob with a fine for littering if the CO/ police aren't around? Granted that would never work, but the concept is nice.

[stevejedlenski]

what really makes me mad is cigarett butts. not only do i find them on a lot of lakes near houses, but the next time you pull up to a stop light look at the curb, there are hundreds of butts at almost every light. and if thats not enough, what about the butts all over the sidewalks near buildings when they have those little plastic butt can things right there. they are too lazy to put their butts in it so they think throwing it next to it is ok.  by the way my dad is one that after we leave the fishing spot i have to pick his butts off the ice or out of the water in the summer.

[JCAMERON]

Yeah cig butts are bad... granted I have been guilty of this on occassion. (not trying to justify... I'm an idiot.) I was in winnipeg a few years back and I swear there were drifts of ciggarette butts.