Shore Fishing Rant ( Fishermans Garbage Left Behind) 2024
bigbill reply :
We would have more fishing spots available to us if some fisherman didn't leave there empty coffee cups, lunch wrappers/bags and empty worm containers on the ground when they left. Why do they do this? This I'd why the "NO FISHING" signs are so popular.
PLEASE PICK UP YOUR GARBAGE LEAVE THE PLACE BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT TOO BY PICKING UP SOME ELSE'S GARBAGE TOO. I LEAVE NO FOOT PRINT BEHIND. ITS LIKE I WAS NEVER THERE.
NO TRASH
NO CIGARETTE BUTTS
NO LURE PACKAGES
NO WORM CONTAINERS
NO FOOD WRAPPERS
No fishing line
NADA, NOTHING LEFT BEHIND.
We need to respect people's property and nature. It's not just about fishing. Leave with more garbage than you brought with you. You will be rewarded in someway with good karma.
5 Dollar Fishing Game reply :
A friend of mine had a guy that let him fish his pond before he and I became friends. The guy let others fish the pond too. It was a beautiful spot to fish days my friend. However the other folks left trash, etc and the guy didn't let anyone fish it again. Been that way for years. Now he is up in age and won't even speak to most people. Good point man.
Raul reply :
Unfortunately we have to coexist with individuals that don't care. I take my dog for a walk everyday to a park, I carry a plastic bag to pick up the "gifts" he leaves behind, well, everyday I watch that most pet owners leave their dog's droppings behind, some of which are ..... Remember Jurassic Park ? Oh yeah, THAT big !
flyingmonkie reply :
Laziness and selfishness… my two biggest pet peeves.
I always make room in my pockets for the trash of others, but I don't have near enough pockets, and I hesitate to pick up a half-empty containers of old chicken livers and 12-packs of crushed beer cans. Blows my mind how disrespectful people can be.
Jar11591 reply :
I hate it when people say "oh but everybody leaves trash so I'm going to as well." That's how people justify it to themselves. Just pick up your trash! If you can carry it in, you can carry it out!
Jar11591 reply :
It is so frustrating seeing the trash that people leave behind. It's sad too, because I think people like us who don't leave trash are not the majority. This needs to change. Now that I have a small boat, I don't see as much trash on the bank, but I do bank fish occasionally still. The place I go to is just filled with broken glass, beer cans, food wrappers and cigarette butts. It's sad.
slainempire reply :
i dont complain too much, just take a bag with me and do my part. i couldnt tell you how much garbage ive cleaned up by my river spot over the years. yeah, it is annoying but unfortunately it will never go away. might as well take care of what i can.
nascar2428 reply :
As a shore fisherman the majority of the time. I always have a plastic carryout bag with me. Not so much for my trash, but for the other guys trash. Everywhere I fish I'm reminded that someone else has been there before me. There was a time when people used to leave an area just the way they found it, now they just leave it and their trash behind. Now when I.m finished in an area, I always pick up some trash, knowing that I have just left an area better than it was when I got there!
skeeter1980 reply :
I would love to find out where some of these people live,and throw the trash that I pick up,and throw in their yards.It's the same thing with crabbing.The empty beer or soda cans,empty chicken packages,that are left behind,is unreal.
Montanaro reply :
I don't know what possesses someone to leave their trash around. Do they go to their friends and leave their trash in their living room?
Considering many people leave junk in their front yards I'm really not shocked.
blongfishing reply :
I'm with everyone else. I hate when people leave trash. I usually pick it up and get it myself but another thing is the trash could get in the lake and run off fish.
Oregon Native reply :
I carry trash bags in boat and during the day will on occasion pick up floaters as I head down or up lake. It's a feel good feeling and a shake the head feeling for some of the #@!$.
Tight Lines
bass_masster reply :
If I pack it in, I pack it out. Always, no exceptions.
I hate all the effing slobs who leave their trash everywhere, not to mentions what looks like entire SPOOLS of line.
Fools, the lot of them.
J Francho reply :
Complaining won't fix it. The only thing that works is to spend a few minutes cleaning up the spot after you're done fishing, especially if it's in clear view of others. You'd be surprised how much more effective leading by example rather than confronting offenders, or complaining about them can be.
Master Bait'r reply :
I don't even wanna get into this man... You should see how bad it is in a few spots I go. Some have straight up washing machines, mailboxes, shopping carts and any number of discarded furniture, trash, nips, cigarette packs, broken glass etc. I bring a bag and do what I can but I can't even begin to express how upset it gets me to see such beautiful places used like landfills. It seriously causes me physical pain.
Grizzn N Bassin reply :
Just do what you can to clean up where your tishing. Thats why i like fishing private ponds or anywhere posted where i only have permission to fish.
Mainebass1984 reply :
I always bring out more trash then I bring in. I hate seeing garbage and litter on the lakes, ponds, and rivers I fish. It is disgusting and it infuriates me. It is to bad some people are such dirty slobs.
bassin is addicting reply :
i totally agree....pet peeve...dipsticks leaving trash behind.
from time to time...i'll take a 55 gallon trash bag and just walk the bank and pick up trash it is crazy what people leave behind. it is nothing to see a spot where people have fished at night, prob for catfish, and there will be 10-15 beer cans, chicken liver containers, etc. i could not imagine leaving that much crap behind.
one thing i learned about picking up the trash and a trash bag. don't start picking up as you 1st get to the bank and walk away from your vehicle. walk to the farthest point you think you may go and then pick up the trash as you walk back. seems like a "mr. obvious" now but i learned the hard way...that bag fills up quick and can get heavy and then i had to walk all the way back with it...lol...
bigbill reply :
It's there earth too so they should keep it clean because they own it too. I just don't understand it. We're all part of this big eco system. Don't they get it.
Now if we get lots of rain were does all this garbage on the shoreline go? The Styrofoam floats right?
Montanaro reply :
Probably the same people who won't flush after taking a dump...
Scott F reply :
My fishing club, being mostly river fishermen, regularly participate in river clean-ups. A few of us went to a clean-up sponsored by a group in an upscale community. When we introduced ourselves to the organizers, they were surprised to see us, they thought we (fishermen) were the cause of the problem. At the end of the day, one of the most common items we collected were plastic bags of dog poop. Apparently, the residents of this upscale neighborhood would pick up the waste when their neighbors could see them and when out of site, throw the bags in the river! Doesn't matter how much they earn, people can be ignorant.
daiwaguy reply :
Sure is frustrating. But all you can do is pick it up so the land owner doesnt kick you off the property. It is like cleaning up after your children.
BassnChris reply :
Why 'everyone' does it...............is because the penalty is not high enough to make them worry about it.
Our littering fine just doubled after many years to $500 I think..................make the fine something like $25000.......sieze their homes, cars, boats.............write the ticket and make them pay the fine...........after they prove to everyone that they are enforcing it, people will reduce the littering...............it will not eliminate it but will reduce it. I think the penalty for almost everything is too light........gotta get down off the soap box now.
AnglerNo.2112 reply :
It's even worse when I go shooting in the public forest here, people think if they dump their garbage in the woods and shoot it enough times it's the same as taking it to the dump. I always take a bag out with me when I go. I would take more but that's all that will fit in my trunk.
bigbill reply :
On a trip to Vermont to hunt bear we drove into the national forest and parked near another out of starter there garbage was at there doors on the ground. I was with my cousin who lived there. He was really upset. He piled all there garbage on the hood of there truck. When we returned there truck was gone, so was there garbage too. Why do we have to see others leave there foot print of garbage on the ground up in our national forests too. I want to become one with nature and walk in the steps that have been walked in for hundreds of years enjoying the outdoors and the hunt. Yup the garbage is everywhere.
I hunt to enjoy the outdoors and nature at its finest hour. To sit and watch the chipmunk eating some of my fifth avenue candy bars. Or my captain crunch peanut butter cereal snack. The forest is alive by the time we leave. The wrappers go in my deep pocket in my camos.
fishinthedacks reply :
Just like many of you I always bring a bag big enough for my trash and one to clean up around me. One of my favorite spots is always polluted with drinks, old line, empty worm containers, cans etc so I make sure its clean. That town spent extra money make sure the Northville lake/pond had new steps put in, a fishing chart so you can id fish, know legal sizes, and weights. Awesome for new fisherman and kids. Also gives history of fish and tips on how to catch them. So when people pollute these areas I get pretty mad. That's why towns go to crap and they stop putting money into making them better areas.
Felix77 reply :
It frustrates me to see this as well.
I try to cleanup what I can if I have something to put it in. Things like line/hooks etc I always try to to pick up and throw out.
Not always to be honest but if it's there and I can shove it in my pocket or small bag I take it.
Bavass reply :
On 4/4/2014 at 10:09 AM, bigbill said:PLEASE PICK UP YOUR GARBAGE LEAVE THE PLACE BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT TOO BY PICKING UP SOME ELSE'S GARBAGE TOO. I LEAVE NO FOOT PRINT BEHIND. ITS LIKE I WAS NEVER THERE.
NO TRASH
NO CIGARETTE BUTTS
NO LURE PACKAGES
NO WORM CONTAINERS
NO FOOD WRAPPERS
No fishing line
NADA, NOTHING LEFT BEHIND.
AMEN! This was taught to me by my father when I began camping with him!! ALWAYS leave it better than you found it! Kids and some adults sadly just don't care
RoLo reply :
This topic comes up from time to time, and I'm glad that it does.
When we lived in Jersey, my wife and I did a lot of shore-fishing, and 'plastic bags' was always on our Bring List.
The most common debris was monofilament rat nests, empty packages of Eagle Claw hooks and beer cans.
Even if you get "skunked", when you haul off a bag of trash you still come away with a sense of achievement.
Roger
BuffaloBass716 reply :
I've contemplated just spending a day cleaning up a spot that I go to. A lot of garbage collected there on the far bank from other fisherman and other trash... I want to bring a pair of gloves and a plastic bag and just pick up every bit of trash I can get to. Its embarrassing fishing with trash around you and some people just don't care, a select few do though.
ccummins reply :
I always take some yard sized garbage bags with me and when I am done fishing put on some leather gloves and take about 15 to 20 minutes picking up trash that others leave behind. Every little bit that anybody does helps in the long run. A very good organization is Recycled Fish ( http://www.recycledfish.org/ ) the person in charge of it was selected one month last year as one of Field and Streams "Heroes of Consevation". They have partnered up a lot with Dick's Sporting Goods and B.A.S.S. On Facebook they are https://www.facebook.com/RecycledFish . I highly recommend visiting their website; very informative about fishing and the environment.
fishva reply :
Yup. Just today I was fishing a local pond that is very clean, but I saw something weird in the water. From a distance, it looked like a smaller fish was eating a larger fish up by the shore. It was bizarre, so I went closer and saw that were a bunch of fish stuck in the remnants of a net someone had discarded. I sighed, took off my shoes, rolled up my pants, waded out to my knees, let them go, and took the scrap with me when I left to go home and change out of my wet pants.
I hate seeing things like this.
BassAssassin726 reply :
I hear ya man. The two quarry lakes I fish are filthy. The place is the definition of a honey hole. Tons of 3-5 pound bass, huge catfish, carp and bluegills. And people just trash it. I take some trash with me everything I leave but it's impossible to keep up. There is only like 10 people I've ever seen fish it. And I know 6 of them. Lol. So I have an idea who it is. It's just ridiculous. Here is an example of what I'm dealing with.
bigbill reply :
I actually learned how to fish for bass in these places. I would hate to lose them. I taught my son's how to use lures there too.
It's been a learning place for everyone. Then we branch out to other places using our skills we learned there. I give back by showing others how to use lures. I have no ego I like to see others catch fish too. It's my way of giving back and I hate to lose these places. It's also the testing grounds for trying new lures.
geo g reply :
The other day I actually had a released bass swim into a potato chip bag. He swam around for 15 minutes with only his tail sticking out of the bag. I could not agree with this post any more. Also tons of old fishing line left on the bank. Some people are just plain stupid. 
RipSomeLips reply :
I think flogging would be a good punishment for littering! A pond I fish has gone from pretty nice to couches, tv, old rubble etc all in the last year. Construction is being done just down the road and I think the construction guys have found it because there are a ton of misc construction supplies showing up.
CDMeyer reply :
We as anglers need to do our part, God gave us these lakes/waters to fish. The least we can do is keep them in pristine shape to thank Him.
Jar11591 reply :
On 4/5/2014 at 8:55 AM, BassAssassin726 said:I hear ya man. The two quarry lakes I fish are filthy. The place is the definition of a honey hole. Tons of 3-5 pound bass, huge catfish, carp and bluegills. And people just trash it. I take some trash with me everything I leave but it's impossible to keep up. There is only like 10 people I've ever seen fish it. And I know 6 of them. Lol. So I have an idea who it is. It's just ridiculous. Here is an example of what I'm dealing with.
Looks all too familiar. I don't know how in good conscience people can just litter like that. Different type of human being I guess. Do THEY like the look of their own garbage, or do they just never come back? Some things I will never get.
BassAssassin726 reply :
On 4/6/2014 at 12:05 AM, Jar11591 said:Looks all too familiar. I don't know how in good conscience people can just litter like that. Different type of human being I guess. Do THEY like the look of their own garbage, or do they just never come back? Some things I will never get.
Me neither man. I once saw two boxes, one for a Barbie fishing rod and another for a spiderman one. Laying on the ground next to each other. Which leads me to believe some guy decided to take his kids fishing. Then the example he leaves for them is to just leave your trash anywhere. People are gross.
JaxBasser reply :
Went to a spot the other day and there was an entire destroyed frame from what looked like a mobile home or something similar dumped next to the pond. So disgusting.
fishinthedacks reply :
I was fuming thinking of this thread today as I was testing some new lures etc today. Kids were hanging out eating take out and saw them toss a styrofoam take out container into the river. Unfortunately it's a 20 ft drop into a fast moving river so I couldn't toss them in and make them get it. I let them know how messed up it was they just blew me off like typical teenagers. So it took me three casts with a live target craw to hook the styrofoam and reeled it in and disposed of it. Thank god for those big sharp hooks 
I was a jerk as a teen but I respected nature and my fishing spots. They weren't fishing just sitting down there eating take out and smoking. Wish I knew who they were and who their parents were smh.
Bluebasser86 reply :
Several of the area lakes here are terrible; bottles, worm and liver containers, fishing line, bobbers, food wrappers and boxes, old clothes, cigarette boxes, pretty much anything. Some of the shore access areas have been closed because of the excessive amounts of waste. You can put trashcans out but it doesn't help, they just throw the trash all around the trashcan but not in it. I know some states do "Adopt a Shoreline" programs just like some states do the adopt a highway to help with trash.
Master Bait'r reply :
On 4/5/2014 at 10:52 AM, RipSomeLips said:I think flogging would be a good punishment for littering! A pond I fish has gone from pretty nice to couches, tv, old rubble etc all in the last year. Construction is being done just down the road and I think the construction guys have found it because there are a ton of misc construction supplies showing up.
I've dreamed many times about going vigilante on people. One spot I like to go to has a closed beach on one side- and the ghetto families from the projects down the street go there all the time. Every single group leaves a pile of garbage behind and I've even seen times when the brats they brought were throwing rocks at boaters- and the parents thought it was funny! There have been many days where I would have loved nothing more than to beach the boat, stab the first Dad I can find and then shove all the trash they left behind into the gaping stab wound while the rest of his family learns an important lesson about littering and being a punk in general.
roadwarrior reply :
On 4/4/2014 at 2:54 PM, slainempire said:i dont complain too much, just take a bag with me and do my part. i couldnt tell you how much garbage ive cleaned up by my river spot over the years. yeah, it is annoying but unfortunately it will never go away. might as well take care of what i can.
I always carry a trash bag, too.
ccummins reply :
On 4/7/2014 at 9:09 AM, JaxBasser said:Went to a spot the other day and there was an entire destroyed frame from what looked like a mobile home or something similar dumped next to the pond. So disgusting.
The definition of "trailer trash"...
Scorcher214 reply :
Always put all my snack wrappers and any bottle i have back into my backpack. And, Im always able to find some discarded line laying around. There are even specific line receptacles along the shore at one of my favorite spots.
Pz3 reply :
Doesnt bother me to much usually. To me its just a warning sign that this is a high traffic fishing spot and i need to find or make a better spot.
Grizzn N Bassin reply :
after hearing this stories im really disgusted. ive seen but it for sure its actually fishermen? i know sometimes its fishermen leaving bottles, wrappers, line etc. but what about those people who just dumped bags of garbage threes no hope. Im so glad i fish private waters for bass,if i see garbage where i'm fishing i get ticked. geta few dollars together and take your lazy butt to the dump where it supposed to be.
RAMBLER reply :
How much you 'wanna' bet, none of the people that leave that trash ever read this forum? I would lay odds, they don't own a computer, never owned property, were never in the scouts and their house probably looks just like the fishing spot they just left.
AQUA VELVA reply :
There seems to be a disconnect between what humans do and the environment. Way back in the pioneer days, most everything was biodegradable and was not a big problem. Now we are leaving trash on the land and in the lakes and oceans that will likely outlive us. Humanity is pooping in it's own bed and doesn't seem to care. I feel sorry for the wildlife that is being forced to deal with this and it's not even their fault.
bigbill reply :
What ever happened to that teary eyed native American looking at the trash people left behind. We never see it on tv anymore. We need more save the enviroment commercials on tv.
It's there enviroment too and they trash it. With worm containers, coffee cups, sandwich wrappers and McDonald's bags.
The other day the ground was covered with last years plastic worms and fishing line. This was three feet from a special PVC pipe container for this trash. Are they that lazy? My son picked it all up. I just don't understand it too.
Fact, Well he wasn't a native American he was Italian from Sicily.
porkleaker reply :
Some people just lack respect I guess, I smoke and even then I never flick them in the lake, I knock the cherry off and put it in my pocket and dispose of them at home.
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