Lake Conway clean up is a huge success...

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05-11-2014, 11:26 AM
Midsouth Man

Lake Conway clean up is a huge success...

The effort displayed yesterday from the volunteer group that assembled to help clean the banks, shorelines and lake area was outstanding.

Our day began about 6:15 am and continued throughout most of the day where over 90 commercial bags of debris was cleared from the area. That's a lot of styrofoam, insulation, paper, etc! Literally, you spent hours in a very small area filling up bag after bag.

The area south of the 89 bridge and on the north bank from highway landing to where the houses start on hwy 89 is as clean as I have ever seen it.

I can't thank all of you enough for your efforts and you are the reason this site is what it is today. I tried to speak to everyone yesterday but if I didn't get a chance to personally thank you yesterday, just know that I really do appreciate what you did.

As promised, my 7 year old daughter woke early this morning waiting to draw the prizes to be given away. So we did and without further rambling here they are:

$100.00 Midsouth tackle certificate: Crappiepro

$100.00 Cumberland Crappie certificate:
Kayakcrappieman

$50.00 silent Stalker certificate:
Jiggermax

$50.00 Academy sports gift card:
Rookie40

Ozark rod package:
Doctom

Fishing trip with CMJ:
Pacinar

Deer processing certificate:
Crappiegreg

Guys - I may have misspelled some of your sign on names/handles and if I did I am sorry.
Please pm or call me to claim your awards.

Again thank all of you for helping with the effort!
05-11-2014, 11:39 AM
jackie53

Thanks Midsouth man,D10,Crappie Pro,(Crappie Greg)(guided(1st time on Conway) us to the spot) and others we met Would have liked to stayed longer!! Will be back with (Buzzbait and crappie jigs)!! Might have to go for some of those flatheads we saw pulled out of lake conway)!! May the sore backs and other heal for another day!!!
05-11-2014, 12:52 PM
Midsouth Man

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05-11-2014, 12:55 PM
Midsouth Man

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Also a huge thanks to chuck at hwy landing for letting us use his facilities. And to the group who provided the lunch and gatorades for the group!
05-11-2014, 01:40 PM
humblerev1

thanks for sharing an glad to meet you
05-11-2014, 03:59 PM
RCC

Good job Dennis, getting the ball rolling with your generosity. You all have done a great job in a very tough situation.
05-11-2014, 05:18 PM
CrappiePro

WOW!!! $100.00 worth of Midsouth Jigs. And found out on my birthday. Ohhh the summer crappie on Conway are in real trouble. It was fun seeing everybody and helping clean the lake up. I think we should do this more often. Just a general get together cook out/clean up one or two times a year. Yes big thanks to HWY landing and the folks who grilled the dogs and thanks for the Daylight donuts Dennis. Make sure you tell that Lil Girl... thank you for drawing my name out of the hat for those jigs. Got me a new lucky charm.

Thanks to all who showed up...and participated. I really liked how the AFGC were running the debris to the dump site for us and allowing us to stay on the banks and work. Thanks Guys.
05-11-2014, 05:48 PM
Kayakcrappieman

By golly we all did an excellent job and everyone deserves a pat on the back ... And I completely agree with an annual lake cleanup , it's needed it for years in my opinion
05-11-2014, 06:30 PM
walker733

Great job guys!
05-11-2014, 07:36 PM
Crappie Greg

grear job to all who gave a helping hand !
05-11-2014, 08:16 PM
arkansasbowhunter

Great job guys
05-11-2014, 08:42 PM
Rookie40

Thank you Dennis. The companies that you represent couldn't ask for a better spokesman for their product.
05-11-2014, 09:12 PM
justdriftin

Sign me up for the next one ... Love a clean lake!!! Might have been cuz I was hungry but that hot dog was the best ever!!!
05-11-2014, 10:02 PM
Jiggermaxx

It was my pleasure to give aid to a lake I love so dear. The fellowship and comradery was first class. It was also good to finally put a face to some of the crappie.com names.
05-12-2014, 10:24 AM
D10

To day we moved all of the bags into the fenced in area. The final tally including some bags that we picked up was 116! Great work guys and gals! District 10 really appreciates your time and effort. It is folks like y'all that give anglers a good name. We (District 10) has a lot of work to do. Please be patient with us. We are a 3 man wrecking crew but it will take us some time to get it ALL cleaned up. If y'all are interested in doing this again, we would certainly have y'all out with us. Thanks gain!

Matt
11-24-2016, 02:25 PM
ibmack

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Originally Posted by D10

To day we moved all of the bags into the fenced in area. The final tally including some bags that we picked up was 116! Great work guys and gals! District 10 really appreciates your time and effort. It is folks like y'all that give anglers a good name. We (District 10) has a lot of work to do. Please be patient with us. We are a 3 man wrecking crew but it will take us some time to get it ALL cleaned up. If y'all are interested in doing this again, we would certainly have y'all out with us. Thanks gain!

Matt

If a cleanup like this ever gets organized again, Count me in. Any plans? This thread ended about 2 1/2 years ago. Just joined the cc family a few months after this thread ended and this is the first time I have read about the cleanup.
11-24-2016, 05:11 PM
D10

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Originally Posted by ibmack

If a cleanup like this ever gets organized again, Count me in. Any plans? This thread ended about 2 1/2 years ago. Just joined the cc family a few months after this thread ended and this is the first time I have read about the cleanup.

This cleanup was in response to tons of tornado debris in the lake. If you didn't see the dam area after the tornado, you missed a huge mess. Hopefully we don't have to do a clean up like that again. Search for a thread titled Lake Conway Tornado Cleanup to read more about it. Literally tons of debris was removed from the lake.
11-24-2016, 06:15 PM
coolerfull

Commend you guys and gals! Proud to see this! great job
11-24-2016, 10:50 PM
ibmack

Quote:

Originally Posted by D10

This cleanup was in response to tons of tornado debris in the lake. If you didn't see the dam area after the tornado, you missed a huge mess. Hopefully we don't have to do a clean up like that again. Search for a thread titled Lake Conway Tornado Cleanup to read more about it. Literally tons of debris was removed from the lake.

Ok Matt. I knew Conway/Mayflower had been hit hard, but had not restarted fishing at that time. Still wasting my time playing golf then :dono. I really respect all the effort that was given. I still have my hat in the ring if other efforts are needed for other reasons. Thanks for all the good work ya'll do for us out of D10.