Your Mom's Not On The Ice...

[Beer Baron]

How about you moron's who leave garbage all the ice try taking it off next time. Also thanks for the teachable moment, I can teach my kids how not to act in the outdoors. Pretty sad to walk off a lake having to explain to a 7 & 8 year old why people trash the place.

[DamYankee]

You're correct there are many morons out there, unfortunately (or fortunately however you want to see it) the vast majority of people who will be reading on this forum do pick up their trash and that of many others. 

[Beer Baron]

You're correct there are many morons out there, unfortunately (or fortunately however you want to see it) the vast majority of people who will be reading on this forum do pick up their trash and that of many others. 

Your right, just venting. Just ticks me off. Especially when you see a guy skidding a sled off the ice. Is there no room for your coffee cups and snack wrappers. Sorry Just P!$$&d off at the moment.

[GotEmHooked]

You're correct there are many morons out there, unfortunately (or fortunately however you want to see it) the vast majority of people who will be reading on this forum do pick up their trash and that of many others. 

               with that being said lets make this a how-to and or how not-to topic.....I am a smoker but i have a designated can where all my butts go!.....and the trash goes into the jet-sed then disposed of at home.

[DamYankee]

My kids (7 and 4) have been ice fishing and softwater fishing with me since they could walk.  Whether it's summer or winter we always bring a plastic bag (small ones you get at grocery store) and before we go home it's everyone's job to find one piece of trash to put in bag and bring home to throw away.  The kids get into it and you'ld be surprised how quick and easy it is

[Beer Baron]

My kids (7 and 4) have been ice fishing and softwater fishing with me since they could walk.  Whether it's summer or winter we always bring a plastic bag (small ones you get at grocery store) and before we go home it's everyone's job to find one piece of trash to put in bag and bring home to throw away.  The kids get into it and you'ld be surprised how quick and easy it is

Rock On!!!  Great idea, Thanks.

[troutaddict33]

How about you moron's who leave garbage all the ice try taking it off next time. Also thanks for the teachable moment, I can teach my kids how not to act in the outdoors. Pretty sad to walk off a lake having to explain to a 7 & 8 year old why people trash the place.

[DamYankee]

forgot to mention- it's got to be trash other than what we made ourselves

[chfishon]

i agree that is one thing that really ticks me off

[Crappiekiller]

I always take a small plastic bag with me for trash. After a while it just becomes a habbit.  It really makes you wonder what these idiots  houses look like on the inside.

[mbrooks]

Found my share this year as well. Can't understand the mentality of some people. I would love to see a few dnr out on the ice. They could make a fortune with all the literers, let alone any other violations.

[chadbob]

The lake association on the lake I live on has cabled off the drive to the club house as to many people were parking there, fishing on the lake, non member of course, and leaving there litter everywhere, on the ice, and on the grounds of the club house. I guess you can't fix stupid.

[SLABSLAMMER]

Had a guy on one of the lakes i fish leave his garabage on ice seen him do it 2 days in a row, pop bottles,bait containers,jerky wrappers,chew cans , propane bottles,etc. so i picked it all up,picked up my dogs poop for a week put it in a bag , next time i seen his truck at lake i dumped in the back of his truck, left a note on his truck that said " You leave your s#$t where I fish I'll leave some S$#T for you !"  never seen him leave s$$T on ice after that !!! 

[53andout]

The pigs ruin it for everyone. Passage across private property is almost non existant.

We have an area on our private road where the ice fisherman have always parked. When I was walking my dogs they became very interested in the garbage left behind. Time to be the bad guy. I went out on the ice where they were all fishing and explained if there was ANY garbage left on the lake or where you park or anywhere in between, No one will park here ever again. Clear? It's been pretty clean since.

[specialK]

How about you moron's who leave garbage all the ice try taking it off next time. Also thanks for the teachable moment, I can teach my kids how not to act in the outdoors. Pretty sad to walk off a lake having to explain to a 7 & 8 year old why people trash the place.

I agree 100% Baron!  Are you seeing this on a local lake?

[DR.SPECKLER]

picked a couple beer bottles and those used pocket warmers today.its pathetic and its never gonna stop.

[serchn4monsterpike]

Had a guy on one of the lakes i fish leave his garabage on ice seen him do it 2 days in a row, pop bottles,bait containers,jerky wrappers,chew cans , propane bottles,etc. so i picked it all up,picked up my dogs poop for a week put it in a bag , next time i seen his truck at lake i dumped in the back of his truck, left a note on his truck that said " You leave your s#$t where I fish I'll leave some S$#T for you !"  never seen him leave s$$T on ice after that !!! 

that is great, it's people like that, that ruin it for all of us

[Beer Baron]

I agree 100% Baron!  Are you seeing this on a local lake?

Thornapple & Carter lakes in Barry County. Busch light cans strewn down the Carter public access drive the other day. My kids & I stopped to clean up on way out. One of the near by lake residents happened by at the same time walking his dog. He had genuine appreciation for us helping to keep the place clean. If we leave the areas in disarray it makes us look like a bunch of hickerbillys. He said he hauled out two garbage bags of junk from access last year post season. People do appreciate our efforts. keep it up, keep it clean

[TK81]

Thornapple & Carter lakes in Barry County. Busch light cans strewn down the Carter public access drive the other day. My kids & I stopped to clean up on way out. One of the near by lake residents happened by at the same time walking his dog. He had genuine appreciation for us helping to keep the place clean. If we leave the areas in disarray it makes us look like a bunch of hickerbillys. He said he hauled out two garbage bags of junk from access last year post season. People do appreciate our efforts. keep it up, keep it clean

Seen it on that little lake down the road from where you used to live SpecialK.  Not this year as I haven't been out there yet, but I filled a plastic grocery sack a couple times last year and the year before.  Worse thing is that it is the locals that we went to school with.  Same thing going on this year on the lake I fish up here.  Feel sorry the property owners.  If you see people doing it, call them out.

[solman]

Saw a bunch on used prophylactics at the launch today.  I feel bad for not picking them up now.  I'll get them if there still there tomorrow.

Hazmat, can I borrow your suit?

 

[fishnutt]

Might have one better that that. Went to local lake in N.E IN sunday night did pretty well so I went back on Tuesday and some body did a #2 and left his napkens laying on the ice. That just sucks you cant pack up and get to restroom.

[Rumrunner]

See, I bring a coffee can out for that...LOL

If I see guys leaving, and there is trash where they were, Ill yell at them "you forgot something!!". They normally go back and clean it up...

[Fabner1]

This is a little off point but last night when I went out on the ice there was a small pile of snow with a stick up in the middle right where everyone had to walk by.  I said to myself "what the...",  There was a key to a Ford vehicle hanging from the stick.  Someone had found it in the lot and put it there in hope of the owner coming back.  Not a bad idea.  So everyone isn't a jerk. 

Litter really ticks me off.

[Boomer]

I wish litter was only a Michigan thing. Sorry, we have to deal with it here in Indiana too. A few years back while fishing in the UP we came upon a place where some people had had a party - beer cans everywhere. I would like to thank those people for littering - they paid for my bait that day.

Just last week my son and I were coming off the ice and someone had left a 1lb bottle of propane. I told my son to pick it up and toss it in the back of the truck. He then told me that it "felt heavy." Sure enough, an almost full bottle.

I have noticed that when you pick up some trash, people notice that too. It can go a long way to keeping things open.

[troutaddict33]

i found a pile of poop with used toilet paper next to it last friday... i usually will pick garbage up, but not that time

[stagdown]

Glad to see the mention about cigarette butts.  Apparently, most smokers don't consider the butts trash.  I find them all over the ice and then in the spring they wash up on the beach.   

[Mr.Vexilar]

ahh dang...... You musta found my empty 30 i left on the ice........ Wanna return those cans and hand the deposit back to me please??

PICK UP YOUR CRAP! 

[The Splash]

See, I bring a coffee can out for that...LOL

If I see guys leaving, and there is trash where they were, Ill yell at them "you forgot something!!". They normally go back and clean it up...

  what ever happened to that coffee can last weekend?

[icecanada]

One of the easiest things to do is to clean up after yourself. We all love the outdoors and clean waters to fish in. Where do you think all that garbage goes after the snow melts. Seen buddies littering off boats and on the ice and I always call them out on it.
PICK UP YOUR TRASH

[P Meyette]

what ever you take out with you  please take back with you donot leave for some one else to pickup