Thread: Debris!

Wanted to let everyone know, and especially the out of towners that the lake is rising and there is a lot of logs and other debris floating around. Be careful and slow down! Another subject I've got is all of these people fishing from the bank! People please pick up your trash!!!! I put in at KDM yesterday and there was so much trash on the rock wall it pissed me off to no end!! Law enforcement needs to stop by and right a few tickets for littering!!

I don't care who it is or where it is there's no excuse for littering in a lake, ar, river etc wish they'd get caught and have to clean all way around it

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Tony, when coming back to Sportsman's Marina Sunday, there was a piece of wood about 2 feet long X 16-18 inches around floating no more than 2 inches above the surface. It was bobbing in the 3 foot rollers or it wouldn't have been seen. That would take off a lower unit in a New York second.

All one has to do is go on the rocks below either dam here and you will decide 90% of bank fishermen there are total pigs from all the crap they carry down the rocks but leave rather than carrying it back out. I know several good farm ponds that have been closed to fishing for this very reason.

What about the lazy homeowners on the lake, where they push, scoop and throw their yard debris onto the banks. Branches, yard clippings and a gazillion leaves from the fall are being scattered throughout the lakes area.
People in the era we currently live in do not respect nature, the environment that we all live in. They feel that they can do what they darn well please, and how dare somebody question them otherwise.

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Originally Posted by bandchaser

What about the lazy homeowners on the lake, where they push, scoop and throw their yard debris onto the banks. Branches, yard clippings and a gazillion leaves from the fall are being scattered throughout the lakes area.
People in the era we currently live in do not respect nature, the environment that we all live in. They feel that they can do what they darn well please, and how dare somebody question them otherwise.

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Sorry, but as a homeowner on the lake, I find it hard to equate Branches and leaves to plastic Water bottles, beer cans, and nightcrawler containers. The trash on the lake is a shame, I pick up a couple of bags of trash every year. I've never understood how folks can carry it in full, but refuse to pack it back out empty.

Originally Posted by kylakelover

Sorry, but as a homeowner on the lake, I find it hard to equate Branches and leaves to plastic Water bottles, beer cans, and nightcrawler containers. The trash on the lake is a shame, I pick up a couple of bags of trash every year. I've never understood how folks can carry it in full, but refuse to pack it back out empty.

that's easy in this throw away society we have today, when it's full you need it when it's empty you don't need it anymore so just toss it.

Yeah Doug, there was some good size logs floating right under the surface last night! Looked like a small branch, but when you get right on top of it you found out different. Got on the fish in the last two hours of daylight yesterday afternoon and stayed till 8:00. Had to break out the Q-Beam just to get back to the ramp!

Originally Posted by kylakelover

Sorry, but as a homeowner on the lake, I find it hard to equate Branches and leaves to plastic Water bottles, beer cans, and nightcrawler containers. The trash on the lake is a shame, I pick up a couple of bags of trash every year. I've never understood how folks can carry it in full, but refuse to pack it back out empty.

As a sportsman, it all bothers me. So, I assume from your previous response that as a homeowner on the lake that you do indeed dump refuse on the banks which end up in the lake.

Regardless, your just as much in the wrong as the other lazy folks leaving water bottles, beer bottles, worm containers and anything else because it's not usable or needed any longer.


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Originally Posted by bandchaser

As a sportsman, it all bothers me. So, I assume from your previous response that as a homeowner on the lake that you do indeed dump refuse on the banks which end up in the lake.

Regardless, your just as much in the wrong as the other lazy folks leaving water bottles, beer bottles, worm containers and anything else because it's not usable or needed any longer.


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Brings to mind the saying "You know what happen when you assume" Your assumption of me couldn't be more incorrect.

As far as leaves/branches being the same as beer cans/styrofoam containers, we'll agree to disagree.

Gotta get back to work for a few more hours so I can enjoy a lake day tomorrow.

Thanks for the update, I figured it would pickup after coming across the MS and Ohio Sunday......they were at the top of the banks and coming out in a few spots!!
Def no fun dodging logs and such on the water.....I almost hit a dang semi truck tire on the Cumberland last year, it was jus barely bobbing the top of the water.