Respect our waters

[NJ PIKER]

Heres a picture of someone else's trash I cleaned
up while fishing in NJ yesterday . Not what I was there to do.
Litter bugs are on the top of my S--t list!!!
Wheres a cop when you need a ticket written:tipup:
before

after

[KingKool]

Let me guess...Budd Lake?  Saturday there was a bunch of guys on there with a fire in a garbage can. Drove by and saw them. It wouldnt be too bad if it were just the burnt wood and ash but leaving the cans and bottles is f'd up.

[NJ PIKER]

not to mention it is also a swimming area in the summer
the town doesn't need a lawsuit from someone getting cut
there goes our access to the lake

[Icephishnphreek]

What I dont get is .....If you can carry it in when the cans/bottles are full and heavy, why cant you carry them out when they are empty and light???

People suck....

[thadz]

Hello Jim, good job cleaning up the mess! This Ted the guy who was talking with you and Dave on Monday. How was fishing yesterday? So you guys while I was driving home from work.


Ted

[MikeThePike]

Its a shame that all it takes is a few knuckleheads to destroy things for everyone else.

As for why not carry them out when they are lighter? Most likely due to the fact they'd then have to pull them out of the sled/ bucket/ whatever and go through the motions of throwing them in a can. Too much work for many now-a-days as they can just leave them sitting there and let someone else pick them up and do it.

[KingKool]

From what i saw they did throw them in a can..most of those bottles and cans were burnt up.
Some people are just lazy..early in the open water season when i have some time during the week i fish off the land at Lakes End Marina at Hopatcong for trout and crappie. There is usually a garbage can right there yet people leave stuff like empty worm containers,cans and bottles,paper bags and used line etc right on the ground.
As for myself i always took any garbage i have and throw it in my bait bucket and empty it at home if there isnt a garbage can available.

As for Budd...anyone know how the ice is holding up? thanks

[HaveAuger]

I guess getting caught with empties in the car is more penalty then leaving them on the ice in the dark. (beer I assume?) Not saying this is right, but may be the reason.  I agree, there is no excuss for it.

[Pomoxis]

I've actually been waiting for the day when I see some lazy scum leaving trash anywhere. Then there is the consequence of me finding them leaving trash in the park that I have been cleaning up every week for the past 14 years. I can feel their jawbone crushing under my heel now...
Somehow, I always just miss them. Some genius left 3 thirty packs of Keystone cans there in Jan. As I got closer I realized they were FULL cans. I salvaged over 50 undamaged ones and brought them home. Finally I got SOME reward!

[KingKool]

Damn...nice find!!! Now if only someone can leave an unopened bottle of good scotch on the ice..i can dream LOL

[Sub Zero]

All I can say NJ PIKER is THANKS for cleaning up after the pigs!

[Icephishnphreek]

I've actually been waiting for the day when I see some lazy scum leaving trash anywhere. Then there is the consequence of me finding them leaving trash in the park that I have been cleaning up every week for the past 14 years. I can feel their jawbone crushing under my heel now...
Somehow, I always just miss them. Some genius left 3 thirty packs of Keystone cans there in Jan. As I got closer I realized they were FULL cans. I salvaged over 50 undamaged ones and brought them home. Finally I got SOME reward!

Is Keystone beer really a reward?

[Pomoxis]

Is Keystone beer really a reward?

(love those emoticons)
By my standards, hardly! Most of it remains as "emergency" beer in my basement. When the day comes that I find a case of Pilsner Urquell, I will be able to assume that I actually died and went to heaven. Or maybe I wake up and find my house surrounded by The Great Flood and the water is filled with 24" Arctic Char under ice, or 16" Crappie on snag-free structure.

[Bukshot]

Believe it or not Keystone beer is Coors light.  If you look at the cans it says Coors brewing company, Golden Co.  A friend of mine in the beer industry told me that it's simply off-spec. Coors light under another name.  Not the greatest beer, but after 8 or 10 they all taste the same anyway. 

[bayonne]

down with all littler bugs

hey as a boyscout i myself make the place better than it was before me

[NJperchjerker]

Way to go Jim! Your efforts cleaning up the junk left on the ice is greatly appreciated. I believe your post proved to be even more important than cleaning up the lake! I was out on the lake with Pomoxis a few days after your post and met the group of guys with the burning barrel. I asked them if they posted on Ice Shanty and they said they didn't know what it was. However one guy from the group kept looking at me funny and approached me in a drunken  belligerent state. His buddies looked on nervously. He asked me if I posted on Ice Shanty and I replied "not yet" but I intended to do so in the future. Then it occurred to me that he must have seen the posts. I asked him why he was upset with me since he didn't even know me.  He didn't answer. I told him that I believed he was upset because he was being take to task for the garbage on the ice. I told him I understood why the posters were upset. He walked off with out saying a word. When I came back out on the ice the next day the area where the burning barrel had been was free of all debris. As my father used to always say it is better to light a candle that curse the darkness.