Hi, everyone,
This is for all of you out there who, like me, cannot wait until the hour of the day at last arrives for you to contort yourself through the sticker bushes, climb over the fallen trees and side step down a steep hill; all the while balancing your many and various instruments that you deem crucial to catch the "big one" until reaching that "secret spot" along the banks of your chosen stream
. . . WHEW!
Anyway, this is just a note to request that you find room for a valuable piece of fishing tackle: a mid-sized plastic bag.
While you are most assuredly not one to flick your butts into the water, or stomp them out under your feet on the shore, from my experience, there are plenty of other, lets say, "Bass Holes," who more than make up for you in the trash the river department. Just the other day, I found a nice meander that I had never fished before. I took 3 trips back to my car before all of the plastic bottles, beer cans, bait wrappers, and worse, cigarette buts were removed.
I find it utterly shameful that so many people (people I assume consider themselves "outdoorsy") feel it perfectly fine to introduce pollutants and nicotine saturated plastics into the once bountiful lakes and rivers of our nation. Thus, I felt that I should try and get a little movement going with the hopes of at least mildly quelling the reckless decadence of these unseen others.
So please, friends, when you are out there cursing that branch that has snagged your lure mid-air; would you kindly remember to keep a bag in your pocket? Take a few minutes to pull those bottles, wrappers and whatever-else's out of the brush and water.
Lastly, I know that it's really disgusting, but I ask that you please put your gloves on and pick up any cigarette butts you find laying around. They are really bad for the fish you are so desperately trying to retrieve!
If a million people take the time to pick up ten things every day while out fishing, that's 10,000,000 less things that fish will have to contend with tomorrow!
Thanks for listening!
Love,
Andrew