Littering Your Favorite Spot
July 13th 2007 00:10
Always on the lookout for a new place to fish, the other day I was trying to follow some direction a guy gave me but, it was pretty hopeless. I don’t know if was him or me but, I ended up at a private marina. So, you can just about figure what happened. I had no sooner stepped onto the dock before a someone came out of a shed type building.
“I heard there’s a place to fish around here.”
Nodding his head, he said, “Over there,” and pointed across the road. “Just follow the path!”
Muttering my thanks, I took off..
“Don’t you want directions?”
Already about fifty feet way, I turned and said, “Didn’t you say, ‘Just follow the path’?”
“Yeah, but…”
Feeling good I turned and said, “Good enough for me!”
How did I know where the “good places” would be? Easy—I just looked for the signs. I don’t mean wooden signs saying, “Fish here!” Too many times, when people find a hot spot, they think more about the fish that got away than anything else and end up leaving their trash behind. Maybe it’s peculiar to my neighborhood or I maybe I simply fish in bad areas but, it seems like someone is always leaving something behind.
The thing I’ve seen the most, even washing up in the surf when I was at the beach, is old monofilament fishing line. I don’t mean that people are standing around changing line but, it’s not uncommon to find 5-20 feet every time I go fishing. Mono is basically nylon beads that have been melted down, shot through tiny holes and drawn onto spools. Any idea how long it takes that stuff to break down? Discarded monofilament line poses a risk to both swimmers and aquatic life!
Close behind would have to be the plastic containers such as cottage cheese comes in. However, anglers don’t bother with cottage cheese. The choice for anglers would be bait—night crawlers, grubs, crickets, and even minnows can all be gotten in plastic containers. And while we’re talking about plastic—the same stuff is sometimes used for the disposable soft drink cups used by many convenience stores. And let’s not forget disposable bottles.
The big killers of aquatic life, especially fish, are the 6 and 8 pack plastic organizers.
All a fish has to do is swim along, get one of the circles wrapped around its body, and if the gills can’t work, it soon dies! These things even fall off of garbage boats! Your best bet to help the environment is, when you take that last can or bottle, grab the plastic and break each circle. Then, if it falls off of the garbage boat, all we have to worry about is how long it takes to decompose. But, that’s another story!
Until next time--watch yourself and watch your line!
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Comment by Michaelie
Flick Wit
That's just a little fishing tip, from me to you.
LOL
Michaelie